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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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Design and Heritage: The Construction of Identity and Belonging	17
Design Is Intention Made Sign: Yves Zimmermann's Essential Action	11
Contributors	8
Crossing Over: The Shared DNA of Design and Science	7
Revisiting the Experience Machine: A Philosophical Note on the Limits of Experience Design	7
Design Templates: Between Empowerment and Control of Amateur Graphic Designers	6
Disguising the National as International: The Design Strategy of the Argentine Furniture Firm Buró	5
Undetectable Starting Points: Rethinking “Passing” in Level Design through Queerness, Disability, and Roxy's Got Balls	4
Contributors	4
The Value of Experience-Centered Design to Responsible Software Design and Engineering	4
Introduction	4
The Design Archeology Research Kit: Exploring the Past through Conducting “Design Archeology”	4
Review of Weird Sensation Feels Good: The World of ASMR: Design Museum London, May 13, 2022-April 10, 2023 (Exhibition Review)	3
Value Deactivated: Waste as an Act of Sweeping	3
Storying Multispecies Heritage: Artistic Approaches to Designing Urban Futures	3
Books Received	3
Participatory Design: Addressing Speech-Language Pathologists' Challenges through Collaborative Interface Design	3
Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook	3
A Research Agenda for Playful Systems Design	3
Join the Fold: Video Games, Science Fiction, and the Refolding of Citizen Science	2
Learning by Helping: Mutual Aid as a Pedagogical Response to Competition in Design Education	2
Contributors	2
Introduction	2
Gaming Xiuhpohualli: A (Chicano) Theory of Game Design	2
Elliat Rich: Mythica Ignota, Artefacts of the Oscillocene and the Warawana Mythologies: Canberra Glassworks, 3 October - 15 December, 2024 (exhibition review)	2

Critical Disciplinary Thinking and Curricular Design in Games	2
Commercial Art Education in 1930s Colonial Korea: Japanese Origins and Colonial Limitations	2
L'Homme comme un “être d'habitude.” Essai d'anthropologie et d'épistémologie pour les Sciences du Design	2
Redesigning Relations: Attachments in Citizens' Participatory History Making	2
Design and Making Things Better: Relating the Pragmatism of John Dewey and Richard McKeon in Design Inquiry	2
Introduction	2
Introduction	1
A Promising Break in the “Black Box”: Agency of Competencies and Interpretation in Istanbul Maker Ecologies	1
Contributors	1
Novelty ≠ Creativity: The Problem of Psychological Measurement in Design Practice and Education	1
Introduction	1
Methodology Approach to Digital Imagery Conception: The Designer Against the Homogeneity of Digital Media	1
Ethnographies of Unimagined Possibilities: Toward a Conversational Paradigm for Human-Centered Design Research	1
Introduction: Toward Critical Game Design	1
The Book of Cal's by Cal Swann	1
Pre-Reflection-in-Action: Rethinking Schön's Reflective Practice Through the “Habits of Design Artistry”	1
Hypervernacular Design: Rethinking the Vernacular Design Paradigm	1
McDesign: McDonald's Video Games and Digital Play Areas	1
Designing Equitable Worlds: Six Orientations to Evoke the Future	1
Policy Design or Design for Policy: The Case for Boundary Figures	1
Contributors	1
Constructing a Reconstructed Philosophy: A Deweyan Philosophy-Through-Design	1
The Influence of Fonts on the Reading Performance in Easy-to-Read Texts: A Legibility Study with 145 Participants	1
The Politics of Play: Ugo La Pietra's Design Without Ends	1
The Intersection of Place and Game Design: The Case of Two Classic African Board Games	1
Feminist Pragmatist Design: Evolutionary Systems Change	1
The Forgotten Legacy of Schön: From Materials to “Mediums” in the Design Activity	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
The Disobedience of Design, (vol. Radical Thinkers in Design)	0
Introduction: Pragmatism, Dewey, and Design Inquiry	0
Advancing Donald Schön's Reflective Practitioner: Where to Next?	0
Service Design as Formgiving: Breaking Free from the Marketing-Dominant Logic	0
Over Wooden Planks: Sounding Colonial Inheritance, Engaging Material and Affective Ecologies	0
Environmental-Behavioral System Design: A Reflection on Integrating Environmental and Behavioral Design	0
Living Design: The Writings of Clara Porset	0
Design Issues Editors' Index (2014-2023)	0
Design as Institutioning: Shaping Temporality and Agency in Organizations and Human Systems	0
Beyond Hands: A Design Exploration of Hand Prostheses and Their Transformative Impact on Disability Perspectives	0
Enacting Pluriversal Design Education: The Importance of Positionality and Intersectionality in Practice	0
Contributors	0
About Visual Acuity and Type Design: A Protocol	0
Contributors	0
Industrial Designers in UX Practice: Motivations, Professionalization, and the Construction of Designer Identity	0
The New, the Old, and the Habitual: A Design Anthropological Outlook on the Question of Time	0
Design Issues Geographical Index 1984 - 2023	0
Introduction	0
Design Activism in South Africa: Design Interventions as Invented Spaces to Encourage Activist Citizenship	0
Shape of the Design Worldview: Does Language Inform the Design Sense?	0
An Anthology of Blackness: The State of Black Design	0

Personas as Public, Audience, and Stereotype: A Critical Inquiry	0
Design Issues Authors' Index (2014–2023)	0
Making Do: Improvisational Assemblages, or Exercises in “Loosening the Object”	0
Designing Period Shame: Period Product Advertising in Australian Women's Magazines	0
Contributors	0
The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg	0
Accompaniment in Design Research	0
Design with the Past through Organizational Exaptation in Rural Hong Kong	0
Rethinking Design Ethics from the Perspective of Spinoza	0
Designing Distance: Resilience, Design, and the Critical Social Sciences after the Design Turn	0
“Design Things” and Its Implications on Empowerment	0
Designing a New Brand of Islamic Places in the United States: The Hidden Program of Third Spaces	0
Books Received	0
Designing is Mining: Historicizing Material Ecologies of Design	0
Introduction: Notes on Culture and Design	0
To Conclude: The Future of Design Studies Beyond Design	0
Introduction	0
The Delightful Phrase: Are There Really Designerly Ways of Knowing?	0
The Invention of Design: A Twentieth-Century History	0
Design and Democracy: Activist Thoughts and Examples for Political Empowerment	0
Graphic Design Needs to Take Responsibility: Embedding Social Awareness and Ethics Through Social Science Knowledge and Pedagogical Change	0
Learning from “The Sounding Object”: Sound Design in the Critical Reimagining of Museum Object Narratives	0
Embodied, Everyday Systemic Design - A Pragmatist Perspective	0
Contextualizing the Design Turn	0
Reparative Game Creation: Designing For and With Psychosocial Disability	0
Contributors	0
Introduction	0
Challenging Capabilities: The Value of Design from Ntaria	0
Icograda: The International Council of Graphic Design Associations 1963-2013	0
Devices of Articulation: Who Ever Said They Have to Be Smart?	0
Exploring the Potential of Off-the-Shelf Tools as Digital Probes: Appropriation of a Mobile Diary App	0
Moral Engagement in Design: Five Considerations for Unpacking the Ethical Dimensions of Design Methods	0
Contributors	0
Synesthetic Interactions: Exploring the Multisensory Relationships Between Color and Scent in Human Perception	0
Contributors	0
Introduction	0
Feminist Designer: On the Personal and the Political in Design	0
Contributors	0
Toward a Convivial Design	0
Design Otherwise: Transforming Design Education in the Arab Region	0
Overcoming Fatalism: Fostering New Notions of Temporality through Participatory Design Futuring	0
Fungi Fabrics and Living Colors: Toward Ecocentric Biodesign?	0
Design/Democracy	0
Collaborative Effect-Centered Problem-Solving	0
Relational Transitions	0
Introduction: Design and Articulations of Pasts	0
Contributors	0
Design Semiotics and the Economy of Surplus-Enjoyment	0
Introduction to Design Education: Theory, Research, and Practical Applications for Educators	0
Design as Democratic Inquiry: Putting Experimental Civics into Practice	0
The Design Problem Revisited	0
“Sketching With My Mind”: The Role of Prior Intentions and Intentions in Action for the Creative Process of Design	0
Beauvoir versus Behavior Change: Introducing Existential Ethics to the Politics of Design	0
Introduction	0
Revisiting Metaphor as an Analytical Tool for Design Research	0
Introduction	0
Obscurity and Humility: A Local View of Chinese Modern Design	0
Contributors	0
The Bauhaus of the Seas: A Manifesto for the New European Bauhaus	0
Autographic Design: The Matter of Data in a Self-Inscribing World	0
Graphic Events: A Realist Account of Graphic Design	0
In Defense of Disciplinary Discomfort: An Introduction to Design Studies Beyond Design	0
Generative Logics and Conceptual Clicks: A Case Study of the Method for Design Materialization	0
Introduction	0
A Gradient of Unisons: The Emergent Superunit in Collective Action	0
Design Thinking: Standing on the Shoulders of… Graphic Design!	0
Livable Proximity: Ideas for the City that Cares	0
Breaching-through-Service: Accounting and Shaping Social Order with Service Design	0
Learning by Using: Potentials of Learning Experience	0
Complementary Intellectual Histories: The Design Turn and Scientific Knowledge Production	0
Expanding Pragmatism with Symbolic Interactionism: Recounting the Story of Two Frameworks	0
Introduction	0
Let's Argue! Designing Satire in Digital Games	0