Design Journal

Papers
(The median citation count of Design Journal 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
The role of interior design in promoting a sense of home in people with dementia living in care facilities19
How family affects dynamic innovation capabilities in a design-intensive industry14
Exploring trait factors associated with design thinking disposition in young adults: A fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA)13
Sustainable Thinking by Design Researchers11
Design and Spirituality: A Philosophy of Material Cultures by Stuart Walker8
Creating New Jewellery with precious metals recovered from electronic waste7
The Soul Trembles: An Exhibition of Shiota Chiharu's Art and Design Work.7
Design is…7
Generative prototypes to promote participation in the collaborative design of wearable health technologies7
Call for Editorial Board members6
Development of sensory-friendly inclusive design based on sensory integration theory6
Inclusive design within industry 4.0: A literature review with an exploration of the concept of complexity6
Prototyping-Driven Entrepreneurship: Towards a Prototyping Support Tool Based on Design Thinking Principles6
Picking a design, or a design team? The role of reflective practice and team learning in architecture competitions6
Investigating the correlation between visual representation flow, physical prototyping, and designers’ creativity5
The role of design in society5
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency5
Elements in Landscape; Areas, Distances, Dimensions5
Exposure and embracing vulnerability5
Gestural interaction in the kitchen: Insights into designing an interactive display controlled by hand specific on-skin gestures5
Editor's Foreword4
Wild design and its activism in everyday urban life4
Transition with routes to greater inclusivity4
From making-based to innovation-based crafts: A comparative study on the UK and China4
Architectural Prototyping in Architectural Education: How design knowledge is constructed within physical-digital hybrid environments4
A human-centred design strategy for self-training healthcare service among visually impaired persons4
Designerly ways of speaking: Unpacking the discourse of Design Thinking4
Unfinished feminist futures: Designer’s fiction, theorist’s interpretation, and educator’s reflection4
Dreaming of 2053: Product design and the future of sleep3
Using Generative AI Midjourney to enhance divergent and convergent thinking in an architect’s creative design process3
Review on Design for Sustainability: A Multi-Level Framework from Products to Socio-Technical Systems by Fabrizio Ceschin and İdil Gaziulusoy3
The role of perception of affective quality in graphic design inspiration3
The metaphorical capacity of future-food : Enhancing design’s role in public engagement with emerging technologies3
Designing blockchain-based wearables for health monitoring3
Implications of hospital workers’ sense of safety and effectiveness in participatory design3
Empathy design method based on immersive interactive experiential spaces: A case study of Parkinson’s disease in China3
Design thinking for entrepreneurship: An explorative inquiry into its practical contributions3
Measures affecting driving safety and experience in the era of semi-autonomous driving: In-vehicle interaction design toolkit3
Data science for service design: An introductory overview of methods and opportunities3
Design research landscape: A year in review3
Theory and design in the biotechnical age: A schematic understanding of Bio Design and Synthetic Biology practice2
The future of product design research units and manufacturing SMEs: Addressing sustainability challenges through innovation-driven research2
Design premise and diary study exploring felt senses as data for self-reflection2
Designing harvesting tools for olive trees: Methodological reflections on exploring and incorporating plant perspectives in the early stages of design process2
Kengo Kuma’s renovation of Gaudí’s Casa Batlló: A non-western designerly approach to addressing built heritage2
Future newspapers as a participatory design tool for Chinese rural service innovation2
Analysis of the visual cognition form on the digital exhibit labels to improve user experience: A case study of interpretative exhibitions in museums2
Imagining inclusive technological futures through participatory board game design2
A structural analysis of frontal car styling2
A Framework for Transitioning Designerly Ways: Interrogating 50 Years of Inclusive Design for Paediatric Mobility2
Can designers take the driver’s seat? A new human-centered process to design with data and machine learning2
Icon metaphor design based on ideographic Chinese character-creation2
The relationship between chinese characters and artefacts: A semantics mapping analysis2
Questions of behaviour, humanity, and practice2
Body map image coding to support wearable design for skin-to-skin contact2
Can we build trust by service design? A theoretical approach on multidisciplinary integration2
The Value of Design-driven Entrepreneurship2
User-driven product development: Designed by, not designed for2
Wayfinding for modern healthcare: A participatory approach to designing a wayfinding system in a Chinese Hospital Setting2
Theory into practice: Applying design for sustainable behaviour to drive single use cup recycling2
Photography and Design: Materializing the Ephemeral: Book Review on Photography from the Turin Shroud to the Turing Machine, by Toister Yanai, Intellect Books, 20202
In Search of Keys to Unlock Young Design Entrepreneurship2
Five components of social design: A unified framework to support research and practice2
Mycodesign: A new collaboration between mycomaterials and product design as a way to promote material identity1
Promoting the social interaction in a historical community through participatory planning and design: An empirical study in Rural China1
Amplituhedron: A bio-melanin fibre synthesized from soil bacteria for the design of innovative sustainable garments1
Obstacles, Solutions and Creative Agencies: How Forces and Agencies Shape the Learning Process of Weaving1
Navigating Complexity through Co-Design: Visualising, Understanding and Activating Entrepreneurial Ecosystems1
Architectural design research: Drivers of practice1
Co-creation with crowdfunding backers for new products and entrepreneurial development: A longitudinal study on design entrepreneurs in Taiwan1
Contributions towards a plurality in design narratives: Addressing dynamics between global and local discourses1
Navigating the tensions of integrating lived experience in participatory healthcare design1
Experience matrix: A structured concept development method for the industrial design practice in new product development1
Is Democracy Designed?1
A product language-mediated concept construction model from the perspective of conceptual metaphor1
Game design guidelines to foster empathic behaviours in school-age children1
Developing an explanatory hypothesis for urban graphic heritage through the observation of physical traces1
Enacting individual ambidexterity in design entrepreneurship1
Stakeholders’ involvement in social design practices in Turkey1
Design types in diversified city administration: The case City of Helsinki1
The located making framework for supporting craft maker enterprises in China1
Integrating randomness in parametric design: A tool for developing crafty additive manufactured designs1
SMEC: A card-based participatory design tool for seamless multimodal experience innovation in connected and autonomous vehicles1
Teaching Civic Participation With Digital Media In Art Education: Critical approaches for classrooms and communities1
Systematic literature review of legal design: Concepts, processes, and methods1
A Visual Tool for Understanding Wicked Problems in Design Research: A Case Study of Marginalized Youth Unemployment1
A Discussion of Processes to Create a Curriculum and Handbook for Co-Creation and Active Implementation of Co-Design with the Aim of Stimulating Collective Creativity1
Design is… corrupting1
Values of Design: China in the Making1
Communication for comprehension1
Theory-Driven or Theory-Informed? A Review of Behavioural Economics in Design1
Promoting Emotional Durability and Sustainable Fashion Consumption through Art Derivatives Design Methods1
Borrowed Sceneries: The Influence of Japanese Garden Art on Swiss Landscape Architecture1
The potential of design-driven futuring to support strategising for sustainable futures1
Exploring assistive technology stigma: An investigation of wheelchair design for post-stroke older adults in China1
Prototyping longevity services: Tech-driven or human-assisted service?1
Case study of design-driven innovation in Japanese high-end electrical fan market: Focusing on differences in originators1
Turning inwards for change – The role of inner conditions in transformative co-design1
Informal learning in architectural education through sociomaterial approaches: Towards a network-based pedagogy in design education1
Nurturing a stronger sense of community for global design research1
A critique of the representationalist framing of design1
Halfway to a mundane future of the 2050s: Case study of personal vehicle concept design for Indian megacities for 2035-20401
Call for Co-Editor: The Design Journal1
Teatime: Exploring ways to support diverse narratives on sustainability through design1
Sequenced co-design with stakeholder communities to support the development of spaces for mental health recovery and healing1
‘Documentation-in-action’ in craft and design practice: Reflection on social organisation and prevailing tradition in the birdcage craft village in Indonesia1
Indigenising design: The Seven Grandfathers’ Teachings as a design methodology1
Design education in transition: A multidisciplinary design classroom with non-allied disciplines1
Issues of Power and Representation in/of the Local Context: The role of self-reflexivity and positionality in design research1
The sacred and profane in design: Exploring the transcendent nature of ordinary products1
Making and makerspaces: Exploring community centres as creative hubs in China1
Design for environmentally sustainable furniture systems – the knowledge and know-how of furniture life cycle design and furniture sustainable product-service system design1
The relationship between design criticism and society in modern China: A case study of the Nanyang Industrial Exposition1
Healthy aging adviser: Designing a service to support the life transitions and autonomy of older adults1
Prototyping an IoT transparency toolkit to support communication, governance and policy in the smart city1
Enhancing brand consistency via integration of emotional graphic design and cloud service interface system1
Design-Driven Approaches to Enable Sustainable Entrepreneurship – Two Case Studies of Regional Textile Communities From the Philippines and the UK1
Experience prototyping through virtual reality head-mounted displays: Design appraisals of automotive user interfaces1
Exploring post-human futures with design fiction among undergraduate students: implications for future-oriented design education1
A user-centred collective system design approach for Smart Product-Service Systems: A case study on fitness product design1
Research streams and frontier issues of visual perception in the 21st century0
Identify space gene: Deal with the phenomenon of all cities with similar urban form0
From design rebels to global scholars: 30 years of EAD breaking the mould0
Design with change0
Research on the ‘Dual-Channel’ design of AR tourism guide digital products on intelligent mobile terminals integrating ‘Digital, Culture, and Tourism’0
Transdisciplinary learning in a design collaboration0
Designing place: Reimagining a peripheral town’s narrative through experience design0
Envisioning the incorporation of Generative Artificial Intelligence into future product design education: Insights from practitioners, educators, and students0
Concept-space analysis through architectural discourses0
An east wind is blowing0
Smarter Repair 20530
Design thinking adoption in software development organizations: A SAP LAP analysis0
Design intervention strategies for revitalizing the traditional craft industry through distributed manufacturing0
Defining a product characteristic framework of excellence for meaning-driven radical innovation0
Desert control innovation with design thinking: A case study of the Malan-Lake project0
Customization of e-textile sensory tools for people with dementia0
Design logics after late capitalism0
Design Heuristics Cards for circular economy to support generating ideas0
What we do, how we do it and where0
Designing innovations for and with human flourishing: A research agenda0
Designerly resistance: Professional object design in support of Lebanon’s street protests0
Clients and carers: Healthcare professionals’ roles in medical device development processes in SMEs0
Different flags over shared terrain: Making sense of ‘design labels’0
RCA/Futuring; A decade of future(s) research at the Royal College of Art0
Learning to understand0
From Graphic Designer to Agent of Change: Role Transition through the Approach of Entrepreneurial Education0
Deep permutation type design for Chinese characters0
Global Reach0
A study on the intention of upper limb hemiplegic patients to use interactive gaming devices for hand rehabilitation0
Supporting the emergence of Indian design through design and innovation centres – A methodological approach0
Exploring how design can support the expression of personal aesthetic preferences in dementia0
Circular Fashion: The New Roles of Designers in Organizations Transitioning to a Circular Economy0
Merging the gap between physical and virtual realities: A pilot study on the role designed props play in creating a more immersive virtual experience0
Four Mindsets of Designer-Entrepreneurs0
Design for wellbeing in hospital routines for paediatric cancer treatment0
Unpacking notions of community: Critical design and exhibition as a creative participatory research method0
Making sense of methods and approaches to user involvement0
Exploring water-consuming personal care and hygiene practices in the bathroom environment and user intentions for improving effective water consumption0
Design process in collaboration with archaeology: Contemporary exhibition of a Hellenistic statue0
Implementation of Typology Criteria for Design Knowledge Reflecting Design Diversification0
The holistic frame of designing smart, connected products: A systematic literature review and expert interview0
Sonic placemaking—facilitating listening behaviour through design0
From the fuzzy front end to the back end: A participatory action research approach to co-design promoting sustainable behaviour0
Opening Spaces Design as Landscape Architecture0
Identifying the role of technology within the discipline of 21st century landscape architecture0
Changing design: designing change0
Looking for ethnography in design research through three decades0
Design considerations for the creation of electronic yarns for wearable health monitoring devices0
An application of generative AI for knitted textile design in fashion0
Social Media as a Means of Increasing Non-Designers’ Insight into Interior Design0
How to measure the human value awareness of design students?0
Can I design for play? How pedagogues design for children’s play situations in school0
The Future of Design If Anything Were Possible in 2053: Extending Designers’ Influence from Product Development to Strategy-Making0
Reflections beyond the thesis—exploring wellbeing, emotional work and research identity following a PhD0
Talking about landscape spaces. Towards a spatial-visual landscape design vocabulary0
Resistant and remediating design0
Statement of Removal0
User-Centred Design without Involving Users: A Longitudinal Case Study in a Human-Centred-Design–Mature Company0
Design precedents to design innovation: Category-based reasoning in problem-solving0
Competing through brand style: A systematic approach to explain style strategies in product design0
Constructing the affectiveness and aesthetics of touch through shape-changing fashion and textiles0
Research on systems for doctoral education in design0
Designing the future: Ecosystem innovation and systems leadership in 20530
Using normative inquiry and co-design to embed inclusive design in social design education0
A journey to literacy in design futures: Revelations from the global south0
A dialogue about experiences of collaboration in design practice0
The impact of Gen AI on art and design program education0
‘Rhetoric’ in the design process: The role of prop-based virtual reality storytelling in user-centred product conceptual design0
Design for shared driverless vehicles of the future0
Dream of 2053: Futuring innovative product design0
Somaesthetics and Design Culture: A Pragmatist Approach to Embodied Design0
Using an Immersive Virtual Reality Design Tool to Support Cognitive Action and Creativity: Educational Insights from Fashion Designers0
Safe Harbours for Design Research0
Pathways to green personalisation: Reducing consumption through design0
Do User Experience (UX) Design Courses Meet Industry’s Needs? Analysing UX Degrees and Job Adverts0
Barriers to Bringing Design Function into Technology Start-Ups: A Survey on the Incubation Programme of Hong Kong Science Park0
The usage of cultural products in design thinking: An assessment of an underestimated approach0
How we learn0
Generativity Revisited. Participatory Design for Self-Organization in Communities0
Data flow in living contexts: A systemic analysis for an unsustainable model0
Designing technology for smart and sustainable cities of tomorrow – What can we learn from IPCC’s sixth assessment report?0
Engagement and creativity in gamified remote co-design workshops: A comparison experimental study0
Odyssey and Homecoming0
Analysing the status of communication designers’ role and interdisciplinary collaboration0
Doctoral education in design: What got us here, won’t get us there0
Designing for people you can’t meet: Persuasive design to nurture seniors’ participation in community services during the COVID-19 pandemic0
Moving Forwards0
All Change: Reflections on Design Research Journal Publishing, 2014–20210
Temporalities of a DIY biocomposite through material exploration0
The design narrative in design learning: Adjusting the inertia of attention and enhancing design integrity0
Uncovering facilitators and constraints in co-design with visually impaired children: A sociomateriality perspective0
Smart textile as advanced human digital interface in metaverse0
Legibility research of highway signage typefaces: A critical review and a potential design-centred approach0
Expert gaze behaviour in design evaluation: An eye-tracking study0
Exploring materiality in craft: Translating techniques of make-up and costume design in Kathakali and Khon in jewellery making0
Design-led solutions for reducing airline food waste: A participatory approach to develop behaviour change interventions0
All things bio : A conceptual domain-based approach to mapping practice within the landscape of biologically informed disciplines0
The role of design capability for achieving innovation in a technology follower company: The case of boiler design0
Geomart-ut7, Selçuk Artut, Atatürk Kültür Merkezi, İstanbul0
Does Design Thinking Benefit Ambidextrous Dynamics between SME Managers’ Entrepreneurial and Administrative Mindsets?0
Redefining design competence: A framework for equipping product designers in the generative AI era0
Design Seen from the Outside: An Ethnography of Institutional Participatory Design for the City-Making0
Development of an extended TAM model for enabling online social experience with smart home displays for older adults0
Populist influences on design: Mediation of a new designer profile in Turkish advertising discourse0
‘I can put my culture on my t-shirt’: The value of design and enterprise in Ntaria0
The ‘right’ place to age? Exploring age-friendly and diversity-sensitive design in a super-diverse neighbourhood0
Participatory design in sensitive contexts: A proposal for a conceptual framework0
How do emotions evolve? The effect of emotions in the interactive scenes of a new product trial0
The influence of AR virtual clothing design elements on Chinese consumers’ purchase intention: Novelty, craftsmanship, trendiness, and sociability0
Immersive 2D versus 3D: how does the form of virtual reality inspirational stimuli affect conceptual design?0
Leading by design0
Textures of time: A study of cultural metaphors in the interior design of contemporary bookshops0
Meanings and Uses of Design for Innovation: Conversations with UK Companies0
An exploratory text-mining approach to analyzing DEI-related issues in eight leading architecture & design firms’ publications0
Genetic visualization of cultural heritage: A case study of Zhuxian Town woodblock prints0
Co-design for active aging: An approach to stimulating creativity of the young elderly in urban China0
Fostering communication and collaboration through regenerative design games0
Design in the public sector: Nurturing reflexivity and learning0
Design is … Lost0
Designing and design research-ing0
The Value of a Co-Design Visualization Approach: Enhancing the Understanding of Local Entrepreneurial Ecosystems0
Curious, open minds0
Imaginary ethics: The morality of fictional aesthetics in speculative design0
Engaging with research during design practice: A mismatch of activities and attitudes0
Social design education in Brazil: Historical preambles to what got us here and pedagogical experiences to get us there0
Using actor–network theory to revisit the digitalized tool in social design0
Revitalizing the Rhetoric of ‘Sustainability’: A Kenneth Burkean Diagnosis of Symbolic (Dis)Orders0
Montage as process of knowledge mobilization in architectural design0
Transfer of Craft Knowledge to New Product Development through Collaboration between Craftsmen and Designers0
Affordances of construction toys0
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