Design Journal

Papers
(The median citation count of Design Journal is 1. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Dreaming of 2053: Product design and the future of sleep47
User-driven product development: Designed by, not designed for30
Designing the discipline: Rachel Cooper’s enduring contribution19
PadhAI: Autoethnographic journey of a neurodivergent designer navigating text-heavy research barriers17
Beyond accuracy: AI, empathy, trust, and cultural alignment in user-centered design in the Palestinian context15
Design thinking for entrepreneurship: An explorative inquiry into its practical contributions14
Kengo Kuma’s renovation of Gaudí’s Casa Batlló: A non-western designerly approach to addressing built heritage11
Communication for comprehension11
A user-centred collective system design approach for Smart Product-Service Systems: A case study on fitness product design10
ChromaLipSense: Designing a lipstick-based biosensor for metabolic monitoring10
Belonging by design: Transforming Wuhu’s Jiuzi icon into a sustainable urban IP through place-based identity and emotional design9
Imagining inclusive technological futures through participatory board game design8
How does group psychological capital affect team performance in GenAI-supported dual-role scaffolding project-based learning?8
Symbiosis: Regrounding interactive fashion design with posthumanist thinking7
‘Documentation-in-action’ in craft and design practice: Reflection on social organisation and prevailing tradition in the birdcage craft village in Indonesia7
Exploring learning experiences in design education: Emotional journey cards as a reflective and participatory tool6
Designing rehabilitation playthings for people living with alzheimer’s disease: Categories, values, and design characteristics6
Turning inwards for change – The role of inner conditions in transformative co-design6
Enhancing creativity with domain-specific design heuristics for digital product innovation6
A cross-cultural innovation: The methodology for adapting Moku-Zogan techniques to contemporary furniture design development6
Making Homes: Ethnography and Design6
The Future of Design If Anything Were Possible in 2053: Extending Designers’ Influence from Product Development to Strategy-Making5
Using the technology acceptance model to examine generative AI integration in creative design education: A case study of fashion and interior design studios5
Design for emotional well-being: A body-centred interactive textile design approach5
The role of participatory design in traditional craftsmanship: Methodological approaches5
An exploratory text-mining approach to analyzing DEI-related issues in eight leading architecture & design firms’ publications5
How to measure the human value awareness of design students?5
I.M. Pei: Life is architecture. A retrospective filled with an empathetic and human atmosphere5
Design types in diversified city administration: The case City of Helsinki5
Mycodesign: A new collaboration between mycomaterials and product design as a way to promote material identity5
How the integration of generative AI in design thinking-based collaborative learning impacts student creativity5
China industrial design award evaluation: Explicit features, implicit values, and participation experience5
The design brief as a pivotal tool: A study of Centro Brasil Design’s practices to promote design5
Wearables Collective: Weaving innovations into stages of life4
On what ground to design change: An inquiry into emerging design epistemologies4
Exploring how design can support the expression of personal aesthetic preferences in dementia4
A comprehensive framework for AI-driven chair design integrating finite element analysis, ergonomics, and manufacturing constraints4
Exploring the mediating role of strategic agility in strategy to enhance NPD performance and impact of design strategies4
From the fuzzy front end to the back end: A participatory action research approach to co-design promoting sustainable behaviour4
The shape of things to come: Design and speculation4
Design-led solutions for reducing airline food waste: A participatory approach to develop behaviour change interventions4
Other possible strategic design: Regenerative strategic design4
Social design education in Brazil: Historical preambles to what got us here and pedagogical experiences to get us there4
Unbalanced by design: Revealing structural gaps in Universal Design and Sustainability in design education4
Reflections beyond the thesis—exploring wellbeing, emotional work and research identity following a PhD4
Doing good through collaborative practices: The value of co-designing a digital commons platform for an equitable digital society4
Research on digital activation and derivative morphogenetic design methods for Peking Opera intangible cultural heritage based on motion capture4
Frictional strategies: Diplomacy, idiot, and the politics of care in contemporary strategic design4
Research streams and frontier issues of visual perception in the 21st century4
Genetic visualization of cultural heritage: A case study of Zhuxian Town woodblock prints3
Empathy design method based on immersive interactive experiential spaces: A case study of Parkinson’s disease in China3
Design is…3
Shaping living artefacts: A complex phenomenon in the design process3
Teaching Civic Participation With Digital Media In Art Education: Critical approaches for classrooms and communities3
Wayfinding for modern healthcare: A participatory approach to designing a wayfinding system in a Chinese Hospital Setting3
Picking a design, or a design team? The role of reflective practice and team learning in architecture competitions3
Designing innovations for and with human flourishing: A research agenda3
From making-based to innovation-based crafts: A comparative study on the UK and China3
Revisiting the Systematic Method of Bruce Archer: A Review on Design as the Third Culture3
Assessing contact impedance of embroidered textrodes for biopotential measurements3
SMEC: A card-based participatory design tool for seamless multimodal experience innovation in connected and autonomous vehicles3
Design premise and diary study exploring felt senses as data for self-reflection3
Affordances of construction toys3
Call for Editorial Board members3
Elements in Landscape; Areas, Distances, Dimensions3
Unfolding industrial design students’ engagement with group critiques: A reflective report study in a first-year design studio3
A product language-mediated concept construction model from the perspective of conceptual metaphor3
Design for environmentally sustainable furniture systems – the knowledge and know-how of furniture life cycle design and furniture sustainable product-service system design3
Design path and value orientation of ageing-friendly smart kitchen service system in the context of artificial intelligence3
Looking at things strangely: Defamiliarisation as a design approach for media literacy education2
Speculative methods for exploring data ethics in food systems2
The contributions of human-computer interaction to rethinking design: US-American and European perspectives on critical diversity and design2
Opening circular materials knowledge through design: The contribution of fab labs and makerspaces to circular economy adoption2
‘Rhetoric’ in the design process: The role of prop-based virtual reality storytelling in user-centred product conceptual design2
Design is… redefining measurement – confrontation with climate catastrophe: Beyond objectivity and towards regenerative impact2
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency2
Colour psychology in UI and UX design: Eliciting emotional responses through colour combination choices2
Pathways to green personalisation: Reducing consumption through design2
How we learn2
The Hungry Tide : Designing an eco-resilient paradigm towards sustainability2
Understanding design capabilities required for design-driven entrepreneurship: The case of Hong Kong Design Centre2
Intentionality is a trap: Considering carers in the inclusive design of public play spaces in metropolitan cities2
A human-centred design strategy for self-training healthcare service among visually impaired persons2
Defining a product characteristic framework of excellence for meaning-driven radical innovation2
Transition design: Elements of practice2
Design strategies for age-friendly communities in the context of population ageing2
Co-design as a research method in doctoral research: asking the right questions2
AI for Designers2
An evaluation study of AiLoupe : An AI driven design tool to source and select textile materials2
What we do, how we do it and where2
A communication-driven method for enhancing user participation in the design process2
Doctoral education in design: What got us here, won’t get us there2
Emptiness: Co-design that begins within you2
Deep permutation type design for Chinese characters2
Immersive 2D versus 3D: how does the form of virtual reality inspirational stimuli affect conceptual design?2
Implications of hospital workers’ sense of safety and effectiveness in participatory design2
Envisioning the incorporation of Generative Artificial Intelligence into future product design education: Insights from practitioners, educators, and students2
Structuring service design methods: The MO Mapping Framework2
Design process in collaboration with archaeology: Contemporary exhibition of a Hellenistic statue2
The metaphorical capacity of future-food : Enhancing design’s role in public engagement with emerging technologies2
Constructing the affectiveness and aesthetics of touch through shape-changing fashion and textiles2
A design-driven engagement strategy for the creation and development of Renewable Energy Communities2
Using actor–network theory to revisit the digitalized tool in social design2
Call for papers for a special issue: Dream of 2053 – Futuring innovative product design2
Wild design and its activism in everyday urban life2
The sacred and profane in design: Exploring the transcendent nature of ordinary products2
Somaesthetics and Design Culture: A Pragmatist Approach to Embodied Design2
Elitism in Design Education: Leadership Through Power, Myth and Kairotic Conversations with Artificial Intelligence2
A framework for assessing the social impact of design2
Integrating the landscape approach into architectural education: Towards a holistic learning experience2
Proximate interiors: When exhibition design activates museum architecture2
Ambiguity as a design resource in self-tracking wearables: A literature review2
Food waste recycling through co-design: Motivating youth behaviour change2
The new normal? AI in design practice, education, and research2
Investigation of brainwave activity associated with curved and edged design geometries using 3D CAD models1
Body map image coding to support wearable design for skin-to-skin contact1
Design Heuristics Cards for circular economy to support generating ideas1
Towards socially and ecologically responsive picture book design and development1
Making sense of methods and approaches to user involvement1
Theory and design in the biotechnical age: A schematic understanding of Bio Design and Synthetic Biology practice1
Sustainable wearable symbionts1
Geomart-ut7, Selçuk Artut, Atatürk Kültür Merkezi, İstanbul1
The dialogue between design and lutherie practiced on Maranhão Island – first conversations1
Investigating the correlation between visual representation flow, physical prototyping, and designers’ creativity1
Cognitive mapping: Enhancing discussions in the transdisciplinary design and health research space?1
Practicing creative mapping as a method of abstraction in the first-year architectural design studio1
Future by design1
Questions of behaviour, humanity, and practice1
Exploring somatic awareness in product design education: A Feldenkrais-based workshop study1
Montage as process of knowledge mobilization in architectural design1
Expert gaze behaviour in design evaluation: An eye-tracking study1
Systematic literature review of legal design: Concepts, processes, and methods1
An east wind is blowing1
A dialogue about experiences of collaboration in design practice1
Theory into practice: Applying design for sustainable behaviour to drive single use cup recycling1
Emerging interdisciplinary approaches: Integrated biofeedback/IVR methodologies for arousal measurement in biophilic interiors1
Exploring the hybrid image–text model in reconstructing idea-generation training methods of design education1
Concept-space analysis through architectural discourses1
Development of an extended TAM model for enabling online social experience with smart home displays for older adults1
Improvement strategies for optimizing servicescape design in unmanned stores1
What Design Can’t Do: Essays on Design and Disillusion1
(Un)Frayling design research in design education for the 21Cth1
The role of design professionals in Ecodesign: Advocating for environmental sustainability in practice1
Data flow in living contexts: A systemic analysis for an unsustainable model1
The empowerment of vocational college visual communication design major teaching pathways by AIGC1
Designing place: Reimagining a peripheral town’s narrative through experience design1
The relationship between design criticism and society in modern China: A case study of the Nanyang Industrial Exposition1
Mapping pedagogical orientations in architectural design education: A comparative thematic analysis of schools from Europe and Turkey1
Prismatic reflection: Educational understanding of crisis-ready speculative augmentation design1
Promoting the social interaction in a historical community through participatory planning and design: An empirical study in Rural China1
Designing towards institutional change in student housing: Service design amid competing logics in a public university ecosystem1
Mind maps in design education: Enhancing cognitive and strategic thinking – A case study review from Al-Ahliyya Amman University1
From revealing to subverting: A design inquiry into the display of academic titles and power reproduction on Douyin (Chinese TikTok)1
Case study of design-driven innovation in Japanese high-end electrical fan market: Focusing on differences in originators1
Exploring trait factors associated with design thinking disposition in young adults: A fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA)1
Design reasoning in the age of artificial intelligence: Thoughts on design terminology1
Design for change: Transformational cross-cultural and transdisciplinary learning experiences to solve global healthcare sustainability challenges1
Incorporating Designers’ Ideas in Developing a Collaborative Prototype for Supporting Age-Friendly Kitchen Co-Design in Chinese Gated Communities1
Speculative and circular design applied to oceanic health and wellbeing – Envisioning possible futures with OZEAON project1
Smarter Repair 20531
Navigating the tensions of integrating lived experience in participatory healthcare design1
Design in a time of structural reorientation1
Design with change1
Development of therapeutic garments for atopic dermatitis: Integrating functional textiles and clothing design1
Leading by design1
The relationship between chinese characters and artefacts: A semantics mapping analysis1
Connecting citizens through participatory design activities: Lessons from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia1
Fostering communication and collaboration through regenerative design games1
The role of design in society1
Co-design in the context of universal design: An Australian case study exploring the role of people with disabilities in the design of public buildings1
Temporalities of a DIY biocomposite through material exploration1
Editor’s foreword1
Enhancing the potential of situated playful interactions through design to rethink architectural spaces1
Prototyping longevity services: Tech-driven or human-assisted service?1
Research on service design touchpoints for green communities based on the community commons1
Exploring the creation of data object for personal data engagement through crochet activities1
Futures literacy in design education: A thematic analysis of BA/MA programmes in the Nordic countries1
Sonic placemaking—facilitating listening behaviour through design1
How family affects dynamic innovation capabilities in a design-intensive industry1
Safe Harbours for Design Research1
Unfinished feminist futures: Designer’s fiction, theorist’s interpretation, and educator’s reflection1
Measuring global design capabilities: An empirical model1
Simulation of utilitarian and leisure scenarios: An auxiliary decision-making model for designing active-mobility public space1
Creating New Jewellery with precious metals recovered from electronic waste1
Redefining design competence: A framework for equipping product designers in the generative AI era1
Can designers take the driver’s seat? A new human-centered process to design with data and machine learning1
Design thinking adoption in software development organizations: A SAP LAP analysis1
Emergent methodology: Bridging the ocean tangibility gap with experimental design methods1
Populist influences on design: Mediation of a new designer profile in Turkish advertising discourse1
Design as the ‘Bridge’1
Assessing the impact of maker services in Barcelona and Milan towards the 15-minute city model through their accessibility1
Novice designers in museums: A constructively aligned framework bridging formal and informal learning through artefact analysis1
Co-design for active aging: An approach to stimulating creativity of the young elderly in urban China1
Pockets full of wellness: E-textiles pockets to empower young women to discreetly recognise and manage their stress and mental wellbeing1
From monitoring to proactive healthcare: Cases exploring embodiment and AI in smart textile design1
Opening Spaces Design as Landscape Architecture1
Clients and carers: Healthcare professionals’ roles in medical device development processes in SMEs1
A structural analysis of frontal car styling1
A situated analysis of research publication evaluation in Latin countries based on a pluriversal approach1
Industrial waste from corn applied in the development of tubes for planting eucalyptus seedlings1
Exploring materiality in craft: Translating techniques of make-up and costume design in Kathakali and Khon in jewellery making1
Developing an explanatory hypothesis for urban graphic heritage through the observation of physical traces1
Insect-based industrial symbiosis: Navigating deep-scaling barriers through holistic biomimicry1
An attempt to bridge the subject-object distinction through ‘design’1
Integrating randomness in parametric design: A tool for developing crafty additive manufactured designs1
Design logics after late capitalism1
Innovative design strategies for sustainable coral reef restoration in the anthropocene1
Haptic perception interaction effects between vibrotactile and compressive stimuli in wearable devices1
Enhancing the tourism cultural and creative industry: A novel AIGC-integrated methodology for efficient IP image design1
Smart textile as advanced human digital interface in metaverse1
Engagement and creativity in gamified remote co-design workshops: A comparison experimental study1
Design principles for mixed reality retail product configuration interfaces1
Designing a participatory-based permaculture toolkit for marginal Indian farmers to support sustainable farming1
Unlocking AI-driven innovations in textile design for a circular economy1
The role of interior design in promoting a sense of home in people with dementia living in care facilities1
Call for participation1
Measures affecting driving safety and experience in the era of semi-autonomous driving: In-vehicle interaction design toolkit1
Contributions towards a plurality in design narratives: Addressing dynamics between global and local discourses1
Design thinking’s implementation in the public sphere: A focus on Aotearoa New Zealand’s public service1
How to define sustainable design? An exploration through bibliometric analysis and literature review based on Web of Science1
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