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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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Dreaming of 2053: Product design and the future of sleep	15
Architectural Prototyping in Architectural Education: How design knowledge is constructed within physical-digital hybrid environments	13
Editor's Foreword	13
Gestural interaction in the kitchen: Insights into designing an interactive display controlled by hand specific on-skin gestures	13
Design thinking for entrepreneurship: An explorative inquiry into its practical contributions	10
Call for Co-Editor: The Design Journal	9
User-driven product development: Designed by, not designed for	9
Kengo Kuma’s renovation of Gaudí’s Casa Batlló: A non-western designerly approach to addressing built heritage	9
Communication for comprehension	8
Nurturing a stronger sense of community for global design research	7
An exploratory text-mining approach to analyzing DEI-related issues in eight leading architecture & design firms’ publications	7
‘Documentation-in-action’ in craft and design practice: Reflection on social organisation and prevailing tradition in the birdcage craft village in Indonesia	7
How to measure the human value awareness of design students?	7
A user-centred collective system design approach for Smart Product-Service Systems: A case study on fitness product design	7
Mycodesign: A new collaboration between mycomaterials and product design as a way to promote material identity	7
Imagining inclusive technological futures through participatory board game design	7
Design types in diversified city administration: The case City of Helsinki	6
Enhancing creativity with domain-specific design heuristics for digital product innovation	6
Turning inwards for change – The role of inner conditions in transformative co-design	6
The design brief as a pivotal tool: A study of Centro Brasil Design’s practices to promote design	5
Everyday design-driven innovation: Exploring meaning change in IKEA hacking	5
Transdisciplinary learning in a design collaboration	5
China industrial design award evaluation: Explicit features, implicit values, and participation experience	5
The Future of Design If Anything Were Possible in 2053: Extending Designers’ Influence from Product Development to Strategy-Making	5
From the fuzzy front end to the back end: A participatory action research approach to co-design promoting sustainable behaviour	5

Design for Service Implementation: Proposing a Service Implementation Framework and Exploring Design Practices	5
Reflections beyond the thesis—exploring wellbeing, emotional work and research identity following a PhD	4
Exploring water-consuming personal care and hygiene practices in the bathroom environment and user intentions for improving effective water consumption	4
Exploring how design can support the expression of personal aesthetic preferences in dementia	4
Research on digital activation and derivative morphogenetic design methods for Peking Opera intangible cultural heritage based on motion capture	4
The Architectural Model as Augmenting a Sensory Ethnography	4
Design-led solutions for reducing airline food waste: A participatory approach to develop behaviour change interventions	4
Social design education in Brazil: Historical preambles to what got us here and pedagogical experiences to get us there	4
Data science for service design: An introductory overview of methods and opportunities	3
Research streams and frontier issues of visual perception in the 21st century	3
Elements in Landscape; Areas, Distances, Dimensions	3
Design premise and diary study exploring felt senses as data for self-reflection	3
Designing innovations for and with human flourishing: A research agenda	3
Affordances of construction toys	3
Wayfinding for modern healthcare: A participatory approach to designing a wayfinding system in a Chinese Hospital Setting	3
From making-based to innovation-based crafts: A comparative study on the UK and China	3
Genetic visualization of cultural heritage: A case study of Zhuxian Town woodblock prints	3
The Soul Trembles: An Exhibition of Shiota Chiharu's Art and Design Work.	3
Empathy design method based on immersive interactive experiential spaces: A case study of Parkinson’s disease in China	3
Call for Editorial Board members	3
The sacred and profane in design: Exploring the transcendent nature of ordinary products	2
Teaching Civic Participation With Digital Media In Art Education: Critical approaches for classrooms and communities	2
Design for environmentally sustainable furniture systems – the knowledge and know-how of furniture life cycle design and furniture sustainable product-service system design	2
Design education in transition: A multidisciplinary design classroom with non-allied disciplines	2
Promoting Emotional Durability and Sustainable Fashion Consumption through Art Derivatives Design Methods	2
Co-design as a research method in doctoral research: asking the right questions	2
Does Design Thinking Benefit Ambidextrous Dynamics between SME Managers’ Entrepreneurial and Administrative Mindsets?	2
Immersive 2D versus 3D: how does the form of virtual reality inspirational stimuli affect conceptual design?	2
Design is… redefining measurement – confrontation with climate catastrophe: Beyond objectivity and towards regenerative impact	2
From Graphic Designer to Agent of Change: Role Transition through the Approach of Entrepreneurial Education	2
Experience matrix: A structured concept development method for the industrial design practice in new product development	2
Doctoral education in design: What got us here, won’t get us there	2
Navigating Complexity through Co-Design: Visualising, Understanding and Activating Entrepreneurial Ecosystems	2
Picking a design, or a design team? The role of reflective practice and team learning in architecture competitions	2
Design is…	2
Somaesthetics and Design Culture: A Pragmatist Approach to Embodied Design	2
Pathways to green personalisation: Reducing consumption through design	2
Design precedents to design innovation: Category-based reasoning in problem-solving	2
Defining a product characteristic framework of excellence for meaning-driven radical innovation	2
Proximate interiors: When exhibition design activates museum architecture	2
Learning to understand	2
Architectural design research: Drivers of practice	2
SMEC: A card-based participatory design tool for seamless multimodal experience innovation in connected and autonomous vehicles	2
Indigenising design: The Seven Grandfathers’ Teachings as a design methodology	2
Transition with routes to greater inclusivity	2
A product language-mediated concept construction model from the perspective of conceptual metaphor	2
Looking at things strangely: Defamiliarisation as a design approach for media literacy education	2
Revitalizing the Rhetoric of ‘Sustainability’: A Kenneth Burkean Diagnosis of Symbolic (Dis)Orders	2
How we learn	2
Call for papers for a special issue: Dream of 2053 – Futuring innovative product design	2

Transfer of Craft Knowledge to New Product Development through Collaboration between Craftsmen and Designers	2
A human-centred design strategy for self-training healthcare service among visually impaired persons	1
Engaging with research during design practice: A mismatch of activities and attitudes	1
Issues of Power and Representation in/of the Local Context: The role of self-reflexivity and positionality in design research	1
‘Rhetoric’ in the design process: The role of prop-based virtual reality storytelling in user-centred product conceptual design	1
Designing place: Reimagining a peripheral town’s narrative through experience design	1
Can designers take the driver’s seat? A new human-centered process to design with data and machine learning	1
Sonic placemaking—facilitating listening behaviour through design	1
Theory and design in the biotechnical age: A schematic understanding of Bio Design and Synthetic Biology practice	1
Designerly ways of speaking: Unpacking the discourse of Design Thinking	1
Contributions towards a plurality in design narratives: Addressing dynamics between global and local discourses	1
The role of design in society	1
Theory-Driven or Theory-Informed? A Review of Behavioural Economics in Design	1
A structural analysis of frontal car styling	1
Teatime: Exploring ways to support diverse narratives on sustainability through design	1
The relationship between design criticism and society in modern China: A case study of the Nanyang Industrial Exposition	1
Data flow in living contexts: A systemic analysis for an unsustainable model	1
Exploring trait factors associated with design thinking disposition in young adults: A fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA)	1
Envisioning the incorporation of Generative Artificial Intelligence into future product design education: Insights from practitioners, educators, and students	1
Design reasoning in the age of artificial intelligence: Thoughts on design terminology	1
An east wind is blowing	1
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency	1
Insect-based industrial symbiosis: Navigating deep-scaling barriers through holistic biomimicry	1
Constructing the affectiveness and aesthetics of touch through shape-changing fashion and textiles	1
Legibility research of highway signage typefaces: A critical review and a potential design-centred approach	1
Implications of hospital workers’ sense of safety and effectiveness in participatory design	1
Five components of social design: A unified framework to support research and practice	1
Exploring materiality in craft: Translating techniques of make-up and costume design in Kathakali and Khon in jewellery making	1
Engagement and creativity in gamified remote co-design workshops: A comparison experimental study	1
Body map image coding to support wearable design for skin-to-skin contact	1
Co-design for active aging: An approach to stimulating creativity of the young elderly in urban China	1
Clients and carers: Healthcare professionals’ roles in medical device development processes in SMEs	1
Co-design in the context of universal design: An Australian case study exploring the role of people with disabilities in the design of public buildings	1
Making and makerspaces: Exploring community centres as creative hubs in China	1
The role of perception of affective quality in graphic design inspiration	1
Navigating the tensions of integrating lived experience in participatory healthcare design	1
Meanings and Uses of Design for Innovation: Conversations with UK Companies	1
Questions of behaviour, humanity, and practice	1
Analysing the status of communication designers’ role and interdisciplinary collaboration	1
Connecting citizens through participatory design activities: Lessons from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	1
Safe Harbours for Design Research	1
Using actor–network theory to revisit the digitalized tool in social design	1
Design with change	1
Redefining design competence: A framework for equipping product designers in the generative AI era	1
What we do, how we do it and where	1
All things bio : A conceptual domain-based approach to mapping practice within the landscape of biologically informed disciplines	1
‘I can put my culture on my t-shirt’: The value of design and enterprise in Ntaria	1
Development of an extended TAM model for enabling online social experience with smart home displays for older adults	1
Case study of design-driven innovation in Japanese high-end electrical fan market: Focusing on differences in originators	1
The metaphorical capacity of future-food : Enhancing design’s role in public engagement with emerging technologies	1
Investigating the correlation between visual representation flow, physical prototyping, and designers’ creativity	1
Design as the ‘Bridge’	1
Making sense of methods and approaches to user involvement	1
Promoting the social interaction in a historical community through participatory planning and design: An empirical study in Rural China	1
Circular Fashion: The New Roles of Designers in Organizations Transitioning to a Circular Economy	1
Leading by design	1
A Framework for Transitioning Designerly Ways: Interrogating 50 Years of Inclusive Design for Paediatric Mobility	1
Future by design	1
Theory into practice: Applying design for sustainable behaviour to drive single use cup recycling	1
Populist influences on design: Mediation of a new designer profile in Turkish advertising discourse	1
Wild design and its activism in everyday urban life	1
Expert gaze behaviour in design evaluation: An eye-tracking study	1
Design process in collaboration with archaeology: Contemporary exhibition of a Hellenistic statue	1
A situated analysis of research publication evaluation in Latin countries based on a pluriversal approach	1
The usage of cultural products in design thinking: An assessment of an underestimated approach	1
Deep permutation type design for Chinese characters	1
Call for participation	1
Locating writing in design education as a pedagogical asset	1
Design Seen from the Outside: An Ethnography of Institutional Participatory Design for the City-Making	1
Design logics after late capitalism	1