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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Dreaming of 2053: Product design and the future of sleep15
Design thinking for entrepreneurship: An explorative inquiry into its practical contributions14
Architectural Prototyping in Architectural Education: How design knowledge is constructed within physical-digital hybrid environments11
Gestural interaction in the kitchen: Insights into designing an interactive display controlled by hand specific on-skin gestures11
Editor's Foreword10
User-driven product development: Designed by, not designed for9
Kengo Kuma’s renovation of Gaudí’s Casa Batlló: A non-western designerly approach to addressing built heritage8
A user-centred collective system design approach for Smart Product-Service Systems: A case study on fitness product design8
Communication for comprehension8
Call for Co-Editor: The Design Journal8
ChromaLipSense: Designing a lipstick-based biosensor for metabolic monitoring7
Mycodesign: A new collaboration between mycomaterials and product design as a way to promote material identity7
‘Documentation-in-action’ in craft and design practice: Reflection on social organisation and prevailing tradition in the birdcage craft village in Indonesia7
Nurturing a stronger sense of community for global design research7
Imagining inclusive technological futures through participatory board game design7
How to measure the human value awareness of design students?7
Enhancing creativity with domain-specific design heuristics for digital product innovation6
Design types in diversified city administration: The case City of Helsinki6
Turning inwards for change – The role of inner conditions in transformative co-design6
The Future of Design If Anything Were Possible in 2053: Extending Designers’ Influence from Product Development to Strategy-Making6
From the fuzzy front end to the back end: A participatory action research approach to co-design promoting sustainable behaviour5
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
Everyday design-driven innovation: Exploring meaning change in IKEA hacking5
Transdisciplinary learning in a design collaboration5
I.M. Pei: Life is architecture. A retrospective filled with an empathetic and human atmosphere5
An exploratory text-mining approach to analyzing DEI-related issues in eight leading architecture & design firms’ publications5
Research on digital activation and derivative morphogenetic design methods for Peking Opera intangible cultural heritage based on motion capture4
Social design education in Brazil: Historical preambles to what got us here and pedagogical experiences to get us there4
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
Exploring how design can support the expression of personal aesthetic preferences in dementia4
Reflections beyond the thesis—exploring wellbeing, emotional work and research identity following a PhD4
Exploring water-consuming personal care and hygiene practices in the bathroom environment and user intentions for improving effective water consumption4
Designing innovations for and with human flourishing: A research agenda3
Genetic visualization of cultural heritage: A case study of Zhuxian Town woodblock prints3
Transition with routes to greater inclusivity3
Elements in Landscape; Areas, Distances, Dimensions3
Empathy design method based on immersive interactive experiential spaces: A case study of Parkinson’s disease in China3
Research streams and frontier issues of visual perception in the 21st century3
The Soul Trembles: An Exhibition of Shiota Chiharu's Art and Design Work.3
Design premise and diary study exploring felt senses as data for self-reflection3
Design is…3
Call for Editorial Board members3
Affordances of construction toys3
Wayfinding for modern healthcare: A participatory approach to designing a wayfinding system in a Chinese Hospital Setting3
From making-based to innovation-based crafts: A comparative study on the UK and China3
Picking a design, or a design team? The role of reflective practice and team learning in architecture competitions3
Design education in transition: A multidisciplinary design classroom with non-allied disciplines2
Somaesthetics and Design Culture: A Pragmatist Approach to Embodied Design2
A product language-mediated concept construction model from the perspective of conceptual metaphor2
Data science for service design: An introductory overview of methods and opportunities2
Co-design as a research method in doctoral research: asking the right questions2
Looking at things strangely: Defamiliarisation as a design approach for media literacy education2
Analysing the status of communication designers’ role and interdisciplinary collaboration2
Does Design Thinking Benefit Ambidextrous Dynamics between SME Managers’ Entrepreneurial and Administrative Mindsets?2
Learning to understand2
Design precedents to design innovation: Category-based reasoning in problem-solving2
Promoting Emotional Durability and Sustainable Fashion Consumption through Art Derivatives Design Methods2
Revisiting the Systematic Method of Bruce Archer: A Review on Design as the Third Culture2
SMEC: A card-based participatory design tool for seamless multimodal experience innovation in connected and autonomous vehicles2
Indigenising design: The Seven Grandfathers’ Teachings as a design methodology2
Architectural design research: Drivers of practice2
The sacred and profane in design: Exploring the transcendent nature of ordinary products2
Pathways to green personalisation: Reducing consumption through design2
Design process in collaboration with archaeology: Contemporary exhibition of a Hellenistic statue2
How we learn2
Proximate interiors: When exhibition design activates museum architecture2
Experience matrix: A structured concept development method for the industrial design practice in new product development2
Doctoral education in design: What got us here, won’t get us there2
Navigating Complexity through Co-Design: Visualising, Understanding and Activating Entrepreneurial Ecosystems2
Design for environmentally sustainable furniture systems – the knowledge and know-how of furniture life cycle design and furniture sustainable product-service system design2
Teaching Civic Participation With Digital Media In Art Education: Critical approaches for classrooms and communities2
Design is… redefining measurement – confrontation with climate catastrophe: Beyond objectivity and towards regenerative impact2
Envisioning the incorporation of Generative Artificial Intelligence into future product design education: Insights from practitioners, educators, and students2
Defining a product characteristic framework of excellence for meaning-driven radical innovation2
Immersive 2D versus 3D: how does the form of virtual reality inspirational stimuli affect conceptual design?2
Call for papers for a special issue: Dream of 2053 – Futuring innovative product design2
Developing an explanatory hypothesis for urban graphic heritage through the observation of physical traces1
Safe Harbours for Design Research1
Exploring materiality in craft: Translating techniques of make-up and costume design in Kathakali and Khon in jewellery making1
Concept-space analysis through architectural discourses1
Design as the ‘Bridge’1
Haptic perception interaction effects between vibrotactile and compressive stimuli in wearable devices1
Deep permutation type design for Chinese characters1
Constructing the affectiveness and aesthetics of touch through shape-changing fashion and textiles1
Engaging with research during design practice: A mismatch of activities and attitudes1
Can designers take the driver’s seat? A new human-centered process to design with data and machine learning1
Integrating randomness in parametric design: A tool for developing crafty additive manufactured designs1
Clients and carers: Healthcare professionals’ roles in medical device development processes in SMEs1
Speculative methods for exploring data ethics in food systems1
Novice designers in museums: A constructively aligned framework bridging formal and informal learning through artefact analysis1
Leading by design1
Promoting the social interaction in a historical community through participatory planning and design: An empirical study in Rural China1
Legibility research of highway signage typefaces: A critical review and a potential design-centred approach1
Contributions towards a plurality in design narratives: Addressing dynamics between global and local discourses1
Wild design and its activism in everyday urban life1
Expert gaze behaviour in design evaluation: An eye-tracking study1
Insect-based industrial symbiosis: Navigating deep-scaling barriers through holistic biomimicry1
Locating writing in design education as a pedagogical asset1
A structural analysis of frontal car styling1
Making sense of methods and approaches to user involvement1
Call for participation1
Systematic literature review of legal design: Concepts, processes, and methods1
Co-design for active aging: An approach to stimulating creativity of the young elderly in urban China1
Case study of design-driven innovation in Japanese high-end electrical fan market: Focusing on differences in originators1
Investigating the correlation between visual representation flow, physical prototyping, and designers’ creativity1
Body map image coding to support wearable design for skin-to-skin contact1
A Visual Tool for Understanding Wicked Problems in Design Research: A Case Study of Marginalized Youth Unemployment1
Design reasoning in the age of artificial intelligence: Thoughts on design terminology1
What we do, how we do it and where1
Smart textile as advanced human digital interface in metaverse1
A human-centred design strategy for self-training healthcare service among visually impaired persons1
Is Democracy Designed?1
The metaphorical capacity of future-food : Enhancing design’s role in public engagement with emerging technologies1
A Framework for Transitioning Designerly Ways: Interrogating 50 Years of Inclusive Design for Paediatric Mobility1
Five components of social design: A unified framework to support research and practice1
Design strategies for age-friendly communities in the context of population ageing1
Exploring trait factors associated with design thinking disposition in young adults: A fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA)1
Theory and design in the biotechnical age: A schematic understanding of Bio Design and Synthetic Biology practice1
Issues of Power and Representation in/of the Local Context: The role of self-reflexivity and positionality in design research1
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
The relationship between design criticism and society in modern China: A case study of the Nanyang Industrial Exposition1
Design with change1
Designing place: Reimagining a peripheral town’s narrative through experience design1
From monitoring to proactive healthcare: Cases exploring embodiment and AI in smart textile design1
Cognitive mapping: Enhancing discussions in the transdisciplinary design and health research space?1
Questions of behaviour, humanity, and practice1
Sonic placemaking—facilitating listening behaviour through design1
Data flow in living contexts: A systemic analysis for an unsustainable model1
The relationship between chinese characters and artefacts: A semantics mapping analysis1
Designerly ways of speaking: Unpacking the discourse of Design Thinking1
A situated analysis of research publication evaluation in Latin countries based on a pluriversal approach1
Experience prototyping through virtual reality head-mounted displays: Design appraisals of automotive user interfaces1
‘I can put my culture on my t-shirt’: The value of design and enterprise in Ntaria1
Values of Design: China in the Making1
Using actor–network theory to revisit the digitalized tool in social design1
‘Rhetoric’ in the design process: The role of prop-based virtual reality storytelling in user-centred product conceptual design1
Prototyping longevity services: Tech-driven or human-assisted service?1
Implications of hospital workers’ sense of safety and effectiveness in participatory design1
The role of design in society1
Incorporating Designers’ Ideas in Developing a Collaborative Prototype for Supporting Age-Friendly Kitchen Co-Design in Chinese Gated Communities1
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency1
All things bio : A conceptual domain-based approach to mapping practice within the landscape of biologically informed disciplines1
Populist influences on design: Mediation of a new designer profile in Turkish advertising discourse1
Teatime: Exploring ways to support diverse narratives on sustainability through design1
Design logics after late capitalism1
Making and makerspaces: Exploring community centres as creative hubs in China1
Navigating the tensions of integrating lived experience in participatory healthcare design1
Development of an extended TAM model for enabling online social experience with smart home displays for older adults1
Future by design1
The role of perception of affective quality in graphic design inspiration1
An east wind is blowing1
Theory into practice: Applying design for sustainable behaviour to drive single use cup recycling1
Engagement and creativity in gamified remote co-design workshops: A comparison experimental study1
Redefining design competence: A framework for equipping product designers in the generative AI era1
The Value of Design-driven Entrepreneurship1
The usage of cultural products in design thinking: An assessment of an underestimated approach1
Connecting citizens through participatory design activities: Lessons from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia1
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