OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Design Journal is 2. 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.)

Article	Citations
Dreaming of 2053: Product design and the future of sleep	39
User-driven product development: Designed by, not designed for	27
Design thinking for entrepreneurship: An explorative inquiry into its practical contributions	19
Designing the discipline: Rachel Cooper’s enduring contribution	18
Beyond accuracy: AI, empathy, trust, and cultural alignment in user-centered design in the Palestinian context	15
PadhAI: Autoethnographic journey of a neurodivergent designer navigating text-heavy research barriers	14
Communication for comprehension	13
Kengo Kuma’s renovation of Gaudí’s Casa Batlló: A non-western designerly approach to addressing built heritage	11
‘Documentation-in-action’ in craft and design practice: Reflection on social organisation and prevailing tradition in the birdcage craft village in Indonesia	11
A user-centred collective system design approach for Smart Product-Service Systems: A case study on fitness product design	10
ChromaLipSense: Designing a lipstick-based biosensor for metabolic monitoring	9
Belonging by design: Transforming Wuhu’s Jiuzi icon into a sustainable urban IP through place-based identity and emotional design	9
Symbiosis: Regrounding interactive fashion design with posthumanist thinking	8
Imagining inclusive technological futures through participatory board game design	8
Mycodesign: A new collaboration between mycomaterials and product design as a way to promote material identity	7
Enhancing creativity with domain-specific design heuristics for digital product innovation	7
Making Homes: Ethnography and Design	7
The Future of Design If Anything Were Possible in 2053: Extending Designers’ Influence from Product Development to Strategy-Making	7
Designing rehabilitation playthings for people living with alzheimer’s disease: Categories, values, and design characteristics	7
How the integration of generative AI in design thinking-based collaborative learning impacts student creativity	6
An exploratory text-mining approach to analyzing DEI-related issues in eight leading architecture & design firms’ publications	6
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 studios	6
Turning inwards for change – The role of inner conditions in transformative co-design	5
China industrial design award evaluation: Explicit features, implicit values, and participation experience	5

The role of participatory design in traditional craftsmanship: Methodological approaches	5
The design brief as a pivotal tool: A study of Centro Brasil Design’s practices to promote design	5
Design types in diversified city administration: The case City of Helsinki	5
I.M. Pei: Life is architecture. A retrospective filled with an empathetic and human atmosphere	5
Design-led solutions for reducing airline food waste: A participatory approach to develop behaviour change interventions	5
Design for emotional well-being: A body-centred interactive textile design approach	5
Reflections beyond the thesis—exploring wellbeing, emotional work and research identity following a PhD	5
From the fuzzy front end to the back end: A participatory action research approach to co-design promoting sustainable behaviour	5
Exploring the mediating role of strategic agility in strategy to enhance NPD performance and impact of design strategies	4
Call for Editorial Board members	4
Wearables Collective: Weaving innovations into stages of life	4
Unbalanced by design: Revealing structural gaps in Universal Design and Sustainability in design education	4
Genetic visualization of cultural heritage: A case study of Zhuxian Town woodblock prints	4
Affordances of construction toys	4
The Soul Trembles: An Exhibition of Shiota Chiharu's Art and Design Work.	4
The shape of things to come: Design and speculation	4
Exploring water-consuming personal care and hygiene practices in the bathroom environment and user intentions for improving effective water consumption	4
On what ground to design change: An inquiry into emerging design epistemologies	4
Research streams and frontier issues of visual perception in the 21st century	4
Designing innovations for and with human flourishing: A research agenda	4
Social design education in Brazil: Historical preambles to what got us here and pedagogical experiences to get us there	4
A comprehensive framework for AI-driven chair design integrating finite element analysis, ergonomics, and manufacturing constraints	4
Research on digital activation and derivative morphogenetic design methods for Peking Opera intangible cultural heritage based on motion capture	4
Exploring how design can support the expression of personal aesthetic preferences in dementia	4
Assessing contact impedance of embroidered textrodes for biopotential measurements	3
Elements in Landscape; Areas, Distances, Dimensions	3
Picking a design, or a design team? The role of reflective practice and team learning in architecture competitions	3
Shaping living artefacts: A complex phenomenon in the design process	3
Teaching Civic Participation With Digital Media In Art Education: Critical approaches for classrooms and communities	3
A product language-mediated concept construction model from the perspective of conceptual metaphor	3
Design path and value orientation of ageing-friendly smart kitchen service system in the context of artificial intelligence	3
Empathy design method based on immersive interactive experiential spaces: A case study of Parkinson’s disease in China	3
Design is…	3
Wayfinding for modern healthcare: A participatory approach to designing a wayfinding system in a Chinese Hospital Setting	3
Somaesthetics and Design Culture: A Pragmatist Approach to Embodied Design	3
Navigating Complexity through Co-Design: Visualising, Understanding and Activating Entrepreneurial Ecosystems	3
Design for environmentally sustainable furniture systems – the knowledge and know-how of furniture life cycle design and furniture sustainable product-service system design	3
From making-based to innovation-based crafts: A comparative study on the UK and China	3
Transition with routes to greater inclusivity	3
Revisiting the Systematic Method of Bruce Archer: A Review on Design as the Third Culture	3
Design premise and diary study exploring felt senses as data for self-reflection	3
SMEC: A card-based participatory design tool for seamless multimodal experience innovation in connected and autonomous vehicles	3
Unfolding industrial design students’ engagement with group critiques: A reflective report study in a first-year design studio	3
Speculative methods for exploring data ethics in food systems	2
Looking at things strangely: Defamiliarisation as a design approach for media literacy education	2
Design is… redefining measurement – confrontation with climate catastrophe: Beyond objectivity and towards regenerative impact	2
Opening circular materials knowledge through design: The contribution of fab labs and makerspaces to circular economy adoption	2
Promoting Emotional Durability and Sustainable Fashion Consumption through Art Derivatives Design Methods	2
Deep permutation type design for Chinese characters	2
Case study of design-driven innovation in Japanese high-end electrical fan market: Focusing on differences in originators	2

‘Rhetoric’ in the design process: The role of prop-based virtual reality storytelling in user-centred product conceptual design	2
Transition design: Elements of practice	2
Design as the ‘Bridge’	2
Ambiguity as a design resource in self-tracking wearables: A literature review	2
How we learn	2
Design strategies for age-friendly communities in the context of population ageing	2
Intentionality is a trap: Considering carers in the inclusive design of public play spaces in metropolitan cities	2
‘I can put my culture on my t-shirt’: The value of design and enterprise in Ntaria	2
Elitism in Design Education: Leadership Through Power, Myth and Kairotic Conversations with Artificial Intelligence	2
The contributions of human-computer interaction to rethinking design: US-American and European perspectives on critical diversity and design	2
Co-design as a research method in doctoral research: asking the right questions	2
The Hungry Tide : Designing an eco-resilient paradigm towards sustainability	2
An evaluation study of AiLoupe : An AI driven design tool to source and select textile materials	2
Architectural design research: Drivers of practice	2
The sacred and profane in design: Exploring the transcendent nature of ordinary products	2
What we do, how we do it and where	2
Design process in collaboration with archaeology: Contemporary exhibition of a Hellenistic statue	2
Body map image coding to support wearable design for skin-to-skin contact	2
Issues of Power and Representation in/of the Local Context: The role of self-reflexivity and positionality in design research	2
A framework for assessing the social impact of design	2
The metaphorical capacity of future-food : Enhancing design’s role in public engagement with emerging technologies	2
Defining a product characteristic framework of excellence for meaning-driven radical innovation	2
Structuring service design methods: The MO Mapping Framework	2
Pathways to green personalisation: Reducing consumption through design	2
Using actor–network theory to revisit the digitalized tool in social design	2
Emptiness: Co-design that begins within you	2
Wild design and its activism in everyday urban life	2
Doctoral education in design: What got us here, won’t get us there	2
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency	2
Call for papers for a special issue: Dream of 2053 – Futuring innovative product design	2
A communication-driven method for enhancing user participation in the design process	2
Colour psychology in UI and UX design: Eliciting emotional responses through colour combination choices	2
Proximate interiors: When exhibition design activates museum architecture	2
Constructing the affectiveness and aesthetics of touch through shape-changing fashion and textiles	2
Promoting the social interaction in a historical community through participatory planning and design: An empirical study in Rural China	2
Can designers take the driver’s seat? A new human-centered process to design with data and machine learning	2
Implications of hospital workers’ sense of safety and effectiveness in participatory design	2
A design-driven engagement strategy for the creation and development of Renewable Energy Communities	2
The new normal? AI in design practice, education, and research	2
Food waste recycling through co-design: Motivating youth behaviour change	2
AI for Designers	2
Envisioning the incorporation of Generative Artificial Intelligence into future product design education: Insights from practitioners, educators, and students	2
A human-centred design strategy for self-training healthcare service among visually impaired persons	2
Immersive 2D versus 3D: how does the form of virtual reality inspirational stimuli affect conceptual design?	2