Design Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Design Studies is 11. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page102
Probing metaphors in user narratives to inform design process57
A technical democracy design experiment: Making the UK exam algorithm controversy game53
Editorial: Design Research Notes51
Researching collaborative housing through design: A case study of co-design workshops involving low-income recent immigrants in Canada40
Where Schön and Simon agree: The rationality of design39
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page38
Editorial Board37
Method in their madness: Explaining how designers think and act through the cognitive co-evolution model34
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page34
Editorial Board32
The publics of design: Challenges for design research and practice31
Mapping affordance dimensions: A design model for enhancing visually impaired persons’ agency in food-mediated recycling31
A conceptual framework for multidisciplinary design research with example application to agent-based modeling28
Acknowledgement of Referees28
Charles Peirce's new esthetics: Good design26
Lost in imagined space: A psychoanalysis of participatory design24
There is no such thing as strategic design23
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page22
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page22
Design Martinis and Design Machetes: The Unspoken Paradox20
Inspiration for styling tasks19
Decolonising Design Ethics–An Indian view of the nature of impact of designed artefacts19
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page18
Editorial Board16
The role of expertise in design facilitation practice: A systematic review16
Inside Front Cover - Editorial Board Page15
The generative dance of design inquiry: Exploring Dewey's pragmatism for design research15
AI-against-design map: A systematic review of 20 years of AI-focused studies in design research14
Design thinking for the everyday aestheticisation of urban renewable energy14
Languaging design methods14
Editorial Board14
Ritual design in digital age: A comprehensive analysis of development and trend13
Book Review13
The generative function of the occlusion map: Square spirals and the structure of visibility13
Boundary spanners in co-design networks: Modulating tension and structuring informal power12
Experimental study on improving the quality of interdisciplinary design: Collaborate with AI psychology experts for design develop process11
Decolonial design practices: Creating safe spaces for plural voices on contested pasts, presents, and futures11
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