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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Dreaming of 2053: Product design and the future of sleep39
User-driven product development: Designed by, not designed for27
Design thinking for entrepreneurship: An explorative inquiry into its practical contributions19
Designing the discipline: Rachel Cooper’s enduring contribution18
Beyond accuracy: AI, empathy, trust, and cultural alignment in user-centered design in the Palestinian context15
PadhAI: Autoethnographic journey of a neurodivergent designer navigating text-heavy research barriers14
Communication for comprehension13
Kengo Kuma’s renovation of Gaudí’s Casa Batlló: A non-western designerly approach to addressing built heritage11
‘Documentation-in-action’ in craft and design practice: Reflection on social organisation and prevailing tradition in the birdcage craft village in Indonesia11
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 monitoring9
Belonging by design: Transforming Wuhu’s Jiuzi icon into a sustainable urban IP through place-based identity and emotional design9
Symbiosis: Regrounding interactive fashion design with posthumanist thinking8
Imagining inclusive technological futures through participatory board game design8
Enhancing creativity with domain-specific design heuristics for digital product innovation7
Making Homes: Ethnography and Design7
The Future of Design If Anything Were Possible in 2053: Extending Designers’ Influence from Product Development to Strategy-Making7
Designing rehabilitation playthings for people living with alzheimer’s disease: Categories, values, and design characteristics7
Mycodesign: A new collaboration between mycomaterials and product design as a way to promote material identity7
An exploratory text-mining approach to analyzing DEI-related issues in eight leading architecture & design firms’ publications6
How to measure the human value awareness of design students?6
Using the technology acceptance model to examine generative AI integration in creative design education: A case study of fashion and interior design studios6
How the integration of generative AI in design thinking-based collaborative learning impacts student creativity6
Design types in diversified city administration: The case City of Helsinki5
I.M. Pei: Life is architecture. A retrospective filled with an empathetic and human atmosphere5
Design-led solutions for reducing airline food waste: A participatory approach to develop behaviour change interventions5
Design for emotional well-being: A body-centred interactive textile design approach5
Reflections beyond the thesis—exploring wellbeing, emotional work and research identity following a PhD5
From the fuzzy front end to the back end: A participatory action research approach to co-design promoting sustainable behaviour5
Turning inwards for change – The role of inner conditions in transformative co-design5
China industrial design award evaluation: Explicit features, implicit values, and participation experience5
The role of participatory design in traditional craftsmanship: Methodological approaches5
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
Unbalanced by design: Revealing structural gaps in Universal Design and Sustainability in design education4
Genetic visualization of cultural heritage: A case study of Zhuxian Town woodblock prints4
Affordances of construction toys4
The Soul Trembles: An Exhibition of Shiota Chiharu's Art and Design Work.4
The shape of things to come: Design and speculation4
Exploring water-consuming personal care and hygiene practices in the bathroom environment and user intentions for improving effective water consumption4
On what ground to design change: An inquiry into emerging design epistemologies4
Research streams and frontier issues of visual perception in the 21st century4
Designing innovations for and with human flourishing: A research agenda4
Social design education in Brazil: Historical preambles to what got us here and pedagogical experiences to get us there4
A comprehensive framework for AI-driven chair design integrating finite element analysis, ergonomics, and manufacturing constraints4
Research on digital activation and derivative morphogenetic design methods for Peking Opera intangible cultural heritage based on motion capture4
Exploring how design can support the expression of personal aesthetic preferences in dementia4
Exploring the mediating role of strategic agility in strategy to enhance NPD performance and impact of design strategies4
Call for Editorial Board members4
Empathy design method based on immersive interactive experiential spaces: A case study of Parkinson’s disease in China3
Design is…3
Wayfinding for modern healthcare: A participatory approach to designing a wayfinding system in a Chinese Hospital Setting3
Somaesthetics and Design Culture: A Pragmatist Approach to Embodied Design3
Navigating Complexity through Co-Design: Visualising, Understanding and Activating Entrepreneurial Ecosystems3
Design for environmentally sustainable furniture systems – the knowledge and know-how of furniture life cycle design and furniture sustainable product-service system design3
From making-based to innovation-based crafts: A comparative study on the UK and China3
Transition with routes to greater inclusivity3
Revisiting the Systematic Method of Bruce Archer: A Review on Design as the Third Culture3
Design premise and diary study exploring felt senses as data for self-reflection3
SMEC: A card-based participatory design tool for seamless multimodal experience innovation in connected and autonomous vehicles3
Unfolding industrial design students’ engagement with group critiques: A reflective report study in a first-year design studio3
Assessing contact impedance of embroidered textrodes for biopotential measurements3
Elements in Landscape; Areas, Distances, Dimensions3
Picking a design, or a design team? The role of reflective practice and team learning in architecture competitions3
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
A product language-mediated concept construction model from the perspective of conceptual metaphor3
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
Design strategies for age-friendly communities in the context of population ageing2
Design is… redefining measurement – confrontation with climate catastrophe: Beyond objectivity and towards regenerative impact2
‘I can put my culture on my t-shirt’: The value of design and enterprise in Ntaria2
Opening circular materials knowledge through design: The contribution of fab labs and makerspaces to circular economy adoption2
The contributions of human-computer interaction to rethinking design: US-American and European perspectives on critical diversity and design2
Promoting Emotional Durability and Sustainable Fashion Consumption through Art Derivatives Design Methods2
The Hungry Tide : Designing an eco-resilient paradigm towards sustainability2
Deep permutation type design for Chinese characters2
‘Rhetoric’ in the design process: The role of prop-based virtual reality storytelling in user-centred product conceptual design2
Design as the ‘Bridge’2
How we learn2
Intentionality is a trap: Considering carers in the inclusive design of public play spaces in metropolitan cities2
Body map image coding to support wearable design for skin-to-skin contact2
Elitism in Design Education: Leadership Through Power, Myth and Kairotic Conversations with Artificial Intelligence2
A framework for assessing the social impact of design2
Co-design as a research method in doctoral research: asking the right questions2
The metaphorical capacity of future-food : Enhancing design’s role in public engagement with emerging technologies2
An evaluation study of AiLoupe : An AI driven design tool to source and select textile materials2
Structuring service design methods: The MO Mapping Framework2
Architectural design research: Drivers of practice2
Using actor–network theory to revisit the digitalized tool in social design2
The sacred and profane in design: Exploring the transcendent nature of ordinary products2
Wild design and its activism in everyday urban life2
What we do, how we do it and where2
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency2
Design process in collaboration with archaeology: Contemporary exhibition of a Hellenistic statue2
Issues of Power and Representation in/of the Local Context: The role of self-reflexivity and positionality in design research2
Defining a product characteristic framework of excellence for meaning-driven radical innovation2
Pathways to green personalisation: Reducing consumption through design2
Promoting the social interaction in a historical community through participatory planning and design: An empirical study in Rural China2
Emptiness: Co-design that begins within you2
Implications of hospital workers’ sense of safety and effectiveness in participatory design2
Doctoral education in design: What got us here, won’t get us there2
The new normal? AI in design practice, education, and research2
Call for papers for a special issue: Dream of 2053 – Futuring innovative product design2
AI for Designers2
A communication-driven method for enhancing user participation in the design process2
A human-centred design strategy for self-training healthcare service among visually impaired persons2
Colour psychology in UI and UX design: Eliciting emotional responses through colour combination choices2
Speculative methods for exploring data ethics in food systems2
Proximate interiors: When exhibition design activates museum architecture2
Constructing the affectiveness and aesthetics of touch through shape-changing fashion and textiles2
Can designers take the driver’s seat? A new human-centered process to design with data and machine learning2
A design-driven engagement strategy for the creation and development of Renewable Energy Communities2
Food waste recycling through co-design: Motivating youth behaviour change2
Case study of design-driven innovation in Japanese high-end electrical fan market: Focusing on differences in originators2
Envisioning the incorporation of Generative Artificial Intelligence into future product design education: Insights from practitioners, educators, and students2
Transition design: Elements of practice2
Immersive 2D versus 3D: how does the form of virtual reality inspirational stimuli affect conceptual design?2
Ambiguity as a design resource in self-tracking wearables: A literature review2
Locating writing in design education as a pedagogical asset1
Speculative and circular design applied to oceanic health and wellbeing – Envisioning possible futures with OZEAON project1
Expert gaze behaviour in design evaluation: An eye-tracking study1
From monitoring to proactive healthcare: Cases exploring embodiment and AI in smart textile design1
Exploring trait factors associated with design thinking disposition in young adults: A fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA)1
The relationship between chinese characters and artefacts: A semantics mapping analysis1
Clients and carers: Healthcare professionals’ roles in medical device development processes in SMEs1
Temporalities of a DIY biocomposite through material exploration1
Theory into practice: Applying design for sustainable behaviour to drive single use cup recycling1
A dialogue about experiences of collaboration in design practice1
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
Industrial waste from corn applied in the development of tubes for planting eucalyptus seedlings1
Making sense of methods and approaches to user involvement1
Systematic literature review of legal design: Concepts, processes, and methods1
How to define sustainable design? An exploration through bibliometric analysis and literature review based on Web of Science1
Unlocking AI-driven innovations in textile design for a circular economy1
Is Democracy Designed?1
Design principles for mixed reality retail product configuration interfaces1
Emerging interdisciplinary approaches: Integrated biofeedback/IVR methodologies for arousal measurement in biophilic interiors1
Design Heuristics Cards for circular economy to support generating ideas1
Measures affecting driving safety and experience in the era of semi-autonomous driving: In-vehicle interaction design toolkit1
A situated analysis of research publication evaluation in Latin countries based on a pluriversal approach1
Designing a participatory-based permaculture toolkit for marginal Indian farmers to support sustainable farming1
Inclusive design within industry 4.0: A literature review with an exploration of the concept of complexity1
Incorporating Designers’ Ideas in Developing a Collaborative Prototype for Supporting Age-Friendly Kitchen Co-Design in Chinese Gated Communities1
Connecting citizens through participatory design activities: Lessons from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia1
Using Generative AI Midjourney to enhance divergent and convergent thinking in an architect’s creative design process1
Navigating the tensions of integrating lived experience in participatory healthcare design1
An east wind is blowing1
Design thinking adoption in software development organizations: A SAP LAP analysis1
Future by design1
Designing place: Reimagining a peripheral town’s narrative through experience design1
Towards socially and ecologically responsive picture book design and development1
Design in a time of structural reorientation1
Leading by design1
Data flow in living contexts: A systemic analysis for an unsustainable model1
Emergent methodology: Bridging the ocean tangibility gap with experimental design methods1
A structural analysis of frontal car styling1
Measuring global design capabilities: An empirical model1
What Design Can’t Do: Essays on Design and Disillusion1
Research on service design touchpoints for green communities based on the community commons1
Developing an explanatory hypothesis for urban graphic heritage through the observation of physical traces1
Redefining design competence: A framework for equipping product designers in the generative AI era1
Practicing creative mapping as a method of abstraction in the first-year architectural design studio1
Montage as process of knowledge mobilization in architectural design1
Enhancing the tourism cultural and creative industry: A novel AIGC-integrated methodology for efficient IP image design1
Integrating randomness in parametric design: A tool for developing crafty additive manufactured designs1
Research on systems for doctoral education in design1
Co-design for active aging: An approach to stimulating creativity of the young elderly in urban China1
Editor’s foreword1
Exploring the creation of data object for personal data engagement through crochet activities1
Novice designers in museums: A constructively aligned framework bridging formal and informal learning through artefact analysis1
Prototyping longevity services: Tech-driven or human-assisted service?1
The role of interior design in promoting a sense of home in people with dementia living in care facilities1
Insect-based industrial symbiosis: Navigating deep-scaling barriers through holistic biomimicry1
Smart textile as advanced human digital interface in metaverse1
Mapping pedagogical orientations in architectural design education: A comparative thematic analysis of schools from Europe and Turkey1
Sustainable wearable symbionts1
Assessing the impact of maker services in Barcelona and Milan towards the 15-minute city model through their accessibility1
The future of product design research units and manufacturing SMEs: Addressing sustainability challenges through innovation-driven research1
Pockets full of wellness: E-textiles pockets to empower young women to discreetly recognise and manage their stress and mental wellbeing1
Design logics after late capitalism1
Investigating the correlation between visual representation flow, physical prototyping, and designers’ creativity1
Theory and design in the biotechnical age: A schematic understanding of Bio Design and Synthetic Biology practice1
Mind maps in design education: Enhancing cognitive and strategic thinking – A case study review from Al-Ahliyya Amman University1
(Un)Frayling design research in design education for the 21Cth1
Populist influences on design: Mediation of a new designer profile in Turkish advertising discourse1
Prismatic reflection: Educational understanding of crisis-ready speculative augmentation design1
Design reasoning in the age of artificial intelligence: Thoughts on design terminology1
Smarter Repair 20531
Exploring materiality in craft: Translating techniques of make-up and costume design in Kathakali and Khon in jewellery making1
The relationship between design criticism and society in modern China: A case study of the Nanyang Industrial Exposition1
Development of an extended TAM model for enabling online social experience with smart home displays for older adults1
Questions of behaviour, humanity, and practice1
Investigation of brainwave activity associated with curved and edged design geometries using 3D CAD models1
The role of perception of affective quality in graphic design inspiration1
Enhancing the potential of situated playful interactions through design to rethink architectural spaces1
Improvement strategies for optimizing servicescape design in unmanned stores1
Development of therapeutic garments for atopic dermatitis: Integrating functional textiles and clothing design1
Fostering communication and collaboration through regenerative design games1
Engagement and creativity in gamified remote co-design workshops: A comparison experimental study1
Experience prototyping through virtual reality head-mounted displays: Design appraisals of automotive user interfaces1
Exploring the hybrid image–text model in reconstructing idea-generation training methods of design education1
Sonic placemaking—facilitating listening behaviour through design1
Futures literacy in design education: A thematic analysis of BA/MA programmes in the Nordic countries1
Opening Spaces Design as Landscape Architecture1
The role of design in society1
Concept-space analysis through architectural discourses1
Unfinished feminist futures: Designer’s fiction, theorist’s interpretation, and educator’s reflection1
Contributions towards a plurality in design narratives: Addressing dynamics between global and local discourses1
Haptic perception interaction effects between vibrotactile and compressive stimuli in wearable devices1
Creating New Jewellery with precious metals recovered from electronic waste1
Five components of social design: A unified framework to support research and practice1
WeSIO: A framework for designing wellbeing-centred sustainable interactions through an object-oriented ontology perspective1
The dialogue between design and lutherie practiced on Maranhão Island – first conversations1
Safe Harbours for Design Research1
How family affects dynamic innovation capabilities in a design-intensive industry1
Making and makerspaces: Exploring community centres as creative hubs in China1
Cognitive mapping: Enhancing discussions in the transdisciplinary design and health research space?1
Geomart-ut7, Selçuk Artut, Atatürk Kültür Merkezi, İstanbul1
Design with change1
Call for participation1
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