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Papers

(The median citation count of Design Issues is 0. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
How To Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthrough We Need by Bill Gates (Book Review)	20
On the Politics of Design Framing Practices	15
Contributors	11
Values that Matter: A New Method to Design and Assess Moral Mediation of Technology	9
Design Templates: Between Empowerment and Control of Amateur Graphic Designers	7
Contributors	6
Revisiting the Experience Machine: A Philosophical Note on the Limits of Experience Design	5
Crossing Over: The Shared DNA of Design and Science	4
Disguising the National as International: The Design Strategy of the Argentine Furniture Firm Buró	4
On Fat Clothes: Unraveling Plus-Size Design Discourse	3
New Design Knowledge and the Fifth Order of Design	3
The Value of Experience-Centered Design to Responsible Software Design and Engineering	2
Introduction	2
Books Received	2
Issue Mapping Strategy: Process of Discovery, Places of Invention and Design Process Fallacies	2
Gaming Xiuhpohualli: A (Chicano) Theory of Game Design	2
Undetectable Starting Points: Rethinking “Passing” in Level Design through Queerness, Disability, and Roxy's Got Balls	2
Participatory Design: Addressing Speech-Language Pathologists' Challenges through Collaborative Interface Design	2
Open Plan: A Design History of the American Office	2
Critical Disciplinary Thinking and Curricular Design in Games	2
Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook	2
Contributors	2
Nineteenth Century Color Printing for Visual Instruction	2
Books Received	2
Review of Weird Sensation Feels Good: The World of ASMR: Design Museum London, May 13, 2022-April 10, 2023 (Exhibition Review)	2

Value Deactivated: Waste as an Act of Sweeping	2
L'Homme comme un “être d'habitude.” Essai d'anthropologie et d'épistémologie pour les Sciences du Design	1
Design and Making Things Better: Relating the Pragmatism of John Dewey and Richard McKeon in Design Inquiry	1
Contributors	1
A Promising Break in the “Black Box”: Agency of Competencies and Interpretation in Istanbul Maker Ecologies	1
Introduction	1
Join the Fold: Video Games, Science Fiction, and the Refolding of Citizen Science	1
Consilience in Urban Design (?): The Conceptual Convergence of Strange Bedfellows	1
Constructing a Reconstructed Philosophy: A Deweyan Philosophy-Through-Design	1
Toward a Unified Model of Design Knowledge	1
Post-Atmosphere	1
Introduction	1
Contributors	1
Paper Soldiers on the March: Colonial Toys for Imperial Play	1
Introduction: Toward Critical Game Design	1
Revisiting Metaphor as an Analytical Tool for Design Research	0
Dig If You Will the Picture…: Reading Prince's Semiotic World	0
Introduction to Design Education: Theory, Research, and Practical Applications for Educators	0
Synesthetic Interactions: Exploring the Multisensory Relationships Between Color and Scent in Human Perception	0
Reparative Game Creation: Designing For and With Psychosocial Disability	0
Materializing the Agency of Design in Innovation Practices	0
Introduction	0
Contributors	0
Contributors	0
The Bauhaus of the Seas: A Manifesto for the New European Bauhaus	0
An Anthology of Blackness: The State of Black Design	0
Shape of the Design Worldview: Does Language Inform the Design Sense?	0
Ethnographies of Unimagined Possibilities: Toward a Conversational Paradigm for Human-Centered Design Research	0
Introduction	0
Rethinking Design Ethics from the Perspective of Spinoza	0
Let's Argue! Designing Satire in Digital Games	0
Hypervernacular Design: Rethinking the Vernacular Design Paradigm	0
Graphic Events: A Realist Account of Graphic Design	0
Toward a Convivial Design	0
Books Received	0
Introduction	0
Obscurity and Humility: A Local View of Chinese Modern Design	0
COVIC: Collecting Visualizations of COVID-19 to Outline a Space of Possibilities	0
Introduction	0
Livable Proximity: Ideas for the City that Cares	0
Design Issues Geographical Index 1984 - 2023	0
Introduction	0
Contributors	0
Methodology Approach to Digital Imagery Conception: The Designer Against the Homogeneity of Digital Media	0
Embodied, Everyday Systemic Design - A Pragmatist Perspective	0
Contributors	0
Introduction	0
The Design Problem Revisited	0
How Constructive Design Researchers Drift: Four Epistemologies	0
Designing is Mining: Historicizing Material Ecologies of Design	0

Contributors	0
Breaching-through-Service: Accounting and Shaping Social Order with Service Design	0
Introduction	0
Challenging Capabilities: The Value of Design from Ntaria	0
Exploring the Potential of Off-the-Shelf Tools as Digital Probes: Appropriation of a Mobile Diary App	0
Devices of Articulation: Who Ever Said They Have to Be Smart?	0
Introduction	0
About Visual Acuity and Type Design: A Protocol	0
Making Do: Improvisational Assemblages, or Exercises in “Loosening the Object”	0
Visualization and Interpretation by Johanna Drucker (Book Review)	0
The Delightful Phrase: Are There Really Designerly Ways of Knowing?	0
“Sketching With My Mind”: The Role of Prior Intentions and Intentions in Action for the Creative Process of Design	0
Designing Period Shame: Period Product Advertising in Australian Women's Magazines	0
The Book of Cal's by Cal Swann	0
Design as Democratic Inquiry: Putting Experimental Civics into Practice	0
Designing a New Brand of Islamic Places in the United States: The Hidden Program of Third Spaces	0
Problematizer Design: A Foucaultian Approach	0
The Politics of Play: Ugo La Pietra's Design Without Ends	0
The Disobedience of Design, (vol. Radical Thinkers in Design)	0
The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg	0
Pandemic Design: Art, Space, and Embodiment	0
Introduction	0
Contributors	0
Feminist Designer: On the Personal and the Political in Design	0
Design Activism in South Africa: Design Interventions as Invented Spaces to Encourage Activist Citizenship	0
The Forgotten Legacy of Schön: From Materials to “Mediums” in the Design Activity	0
Icograda: The International Council of Graphic Design Associations 1963-2013	0
Industrial Designers in UX Practice: Motivations, Professionalization, and the Construction of Designer Identity	0
A Gradient of Unisons: The Emergent Superunit in Collective Action	0
The Influence of Fonts on the Reading Performance in Easy-to-Read Texts: A Legibility Study with 145 Participants	0
Fostering Natural World Engagements: Design Lessons and Issues from the My Naturewatch Training Program	0
Contributors	0
Approaching Things that Trigger Things: A Review of Three Shifts in the Character of Things and Their Implications for Design	0
Design Issues Editors' Index (2014-2023)	0
Collaborative Effect-Centered Problem-Solving	0
Generative Logics and Conceptual Clicks: A Case Study of the Method for Design Materialization	0
Setting the Stage: Disgust as an Aesthetic Food Experience	0
Weaving Together a Decolonial Imaginary Through Design for Effective River Management: Pluriversal Ontological Design in Practice	0
Beauvoir versus Behavior Change: Introducing Existential Ethics to the Politics of Design	0
Introduction: Pragmatism, Dewey, and Design Inquiry	0
The Significance of Aristotle's Four Causes in Design Research	0
Design Thinking: Standing on the Shoulders of… Graphic Design!	0
Introduction	0
Learning from “The Sounding Object”: Sound Design in the Critical Reimagining of Museum Object Narratives	0
Fungi Fabrics and Living Colors: Toward Ecocentric Biodesign?	0
Feminist Pragmatist Design: Evolutionary Systems Change	0
Introduction	0
The Kolam Drawing: A Point Lattice System	0
Contributors	0
Pre-Reflection-in-Action: Rethinking Schön's Reflective Practice Through the “Habits of Design Artistry”	0
Design and Democracy: Activist Thoughts and Examples for Political Empowerment	0
Navigating Problematic Bauhaus Inheritances: Critiques, Implications, and Questions from the Bauhaus of the Seas NEB Lighthouse	0
Integrating Technology and Art in Landscape Design	0
Industrial Craft in Australia: Oral Histories of Creativity and Survival	0
Autographic Design: The Matter of Data in a Self-Inscribing World	0
Flexible Environments for Hybrid Collaboration: Redesigning Virtual Work Through the Four Orders of Design	0
McDesign: McDonald's Video Games and Digital Play Areas	0
Contributors	0
Moral Engagement in Design: Five Considerations for Unpacking the Ethical Dimensions of Design Methods	0
The Intersection of Place and Game Design: The Case of Two Classic African Board Games	0
Design Issues Authors' Index (2014–2023)	0
Designing Equitable Worlds: Six Orientations to Evoke the Future	0
Design Semiotics and the Economy of Surplus-Enjoyment	0
Expanding Pragmatism with Symbolic Interactionism: Recounting the Story of Two Frameworks	0
Personas as Public, Audience, and Stereotype: A Critical Inquiry	0
Service Design as Formgiving: Breaking Free from the Marketing-Dominant Logic	0
The New Politics of the Handmade Craft, Art and Design by eds. Anthea Black and Nicole Burisch (Book Review)	0
Advancing Donald Schön's Reflective Practitioner: Where to Next?	0
Graphic Design Needs to Take Responsibility: Embedding Social Awareness and Ethics Through Social Science Knowledge and Pedagogical Change	0