OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Design Studies is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	65
Probing metaphors in user narratives to inform design process	51
A technical democracy design experiment: Making the UK exam algorithm controversy game	49
Researching collaborative housing through design: A case study of co-design workshops involving low-income recent immigrants in Canada	48
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	46
Editorial Board	43
Conceptualizing place attachment affordance: Exploring an affordance-based approach to place attachment	41
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	40
Method in their madness: Explaining how designers think and act through the cognitive co-evolution model	40
Editorial Board	35
Mapping affordance dimensions: A design model for enhancing visually impaired persons’ agency in food-mediated recycling	34
Charles Peirce's new esthetics: Good design	29
Lost in imagined space: A psychoanalysis of participatory design	23
Refining adaptive design approaches for color vision deficiency: A systematic review and taxonomy (2000–2025)	21
There is no such thing as strategic design	19
Decolonising Design Ethics–An Indian view of the nature of impact of designed artefacts	19
Editorial Board	18
Design Martinis and Design Machetes: The Unspoken Paradox	18
Inspiration for styling tasks	17
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	16
The role of expertise in design facilitation practice: A systematic review	16
The generative dance of design inquiry: Exploring Dewey's pragmatism for design research	13
Editorial Board	13
AI-against-design map: A systematic review of 20 years of AI-focused studies in design research	12
Editorial Board	12

Boundary spanners in co-design networks: Modulating tension and structuring informal power	11
Experimental study on improving the quality of interdisciplinary design: Collaborate with AI psychology experts for design develop process	11
Heritage Spark: A card-based toolkit for navigating challenges of digitising intangible cultural heritage	11
Uncovering latent needs in longevity planning: A case study using mixed-methods and system modelling	10
The generative function of the occlusion map: Square spirals and the structure of visibility	10
Ritual design in digital age: A comprehensive analysis of development and trend	10
Decolonial design practices: Creating safe spaces for plural voices on contested pasts, presents, and futures	10
Enhancing patient healthcare experience: A systematic review of emotional design in medical devices	9
Evaluating the efficacy and effectiveness of design methods: A systematic review and assessment framework	9
Exploring the use of speculative design as a participatory approach to more inclusive policy-identification and development in Malaysia	9
The refashion circular design strategy — Changing the way we design and manufacture clothes	8
Effects of designer involvement in the new product development process: Evidence from Japanese manufacturing companies	8
Editorial Board	8
Editorial: Expanding the frontiers of design: A blessing or a curse?	8
Sensing place-based ecological knowledge for regenerative development and design	8
From an ethics of the eyes to ethics of the bodies: Rethinking ethics in design research through sensory practices	7
Book Review: Designing and Democracy	7
From ‘if only’ to ‘what if’: An ethnographic study into design thinking and organizational change	6
Designing urban wayfinding systems with a dynamic perspective: A card-based approach	6
Affordance-based design evaluation: Bridging architectural intention and adaptive user behavior	6
A systematic review of empirical studies on multidisciplinary design collaboration: Findings, methods, and challenges	5
Transition design: Co-creating system solutions for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) care	5
Evaluation of physical models as creative stimuli in conceptual design of products	5
Negotiating social value, time perspective, and development space in sustainable product design: A dialectics perspective	5
Interpreting entrepreneurial core values through visual aesthetics: An analysis of posters for online crowdfunding projects on Kickstarter	5
Place-based methodologies for design research: An ethnographic approach	5
Quality and qualities of design studies, design research and design	5
Capturing and revisiting ideas in the design process: A longitudinal technology probe study	4
A design anthropology of collaborative making: Exploring shoemaking and embroidery practices	4
An experiential learning approach to basic design studio	4
Constructing design activity in words: Exploring linguistic methods to analyse the design process	4
Decolonizing creative education in the global south	4
Visualising product concepts to engage manufacturers with little or no industrial design capability	3
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page	3
That was fun, now what?: Modelizing knowledge dynamics to explain co-design's shortcomings	3
Exploring game design approaches through conversations with designers	3
Editorial Board	3
Intermediation in design as a practice of institutioning and commoning	3
Functional activity and connectivity during ideation in professional product design engineers	3
Unraveling the nature of design thinking disposition: Contributions of trait cognitive flexibility and trait empathy on design thinking potential	3
Understanding virtual design behaviors: A large-scale analysis of the design process in Virtual Reality	3
Screens: Devices of screen ecosystems and designers’ perspectives	2
Sketching and context: Exploring creativity in idea generation groups	2
Rendering racism: Visualizing colorblind architecture	2
Semantic models of sound-driven design: Designing with listening in mind	2
Transition co-design dynamics in high level policy processes	2
Beyond boundaries: Charting the future of Design Studies	2