Design Journal

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
The role of interior design in promoting a sense of home in people with dementia living in care facilities19
How family affects dynamic innovation capabilities in a design-intensive industry14
Exploring trait factors associated with design thinking disposition in young adults: A fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA)13
Sustainable Thinking by Design Researchers11
Design and Spirituality: A Philosophy of Material Cultures by Stuart Walker8
Design is…7
Generative prototypes to promote participation in the collaborative design of wearable health technologies7
Creating New Jewellery with precious metals recovered from electronic waste7
The Soul Trembles: An Exhibition of Shiota Chiharu's Art and Design Work.7
Inclusive design within industry 4.0: A literature review with an exploration of the concept of complexity6
Prototyping-Driven Entrepreneurship: Towards a Prototyping Support Tool Based on Design Thinking Principles6
Picking a design, or a design team? The role of reflective practice and team learning in architecture competitions6
Call for Editorial Board members6
Development of sensory-friendly inclusive design based on sensory integration theory6
Exposure and embracing vulnerability5
Gestural interaction in the kitchen: Insights into designing an interactive display controlled by hand specific on-skin gestures5
Investigating the correlation between visual representation flow, physical prototyping, and designers’ creativity5
The role of design in society5
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency5
Elements in Landscape; Areas, Distances, Dimensions5
A human-centred design strategy for self-training healthcare service among visually impaired persons4
Designerly ways of speaking: Unpacking the discourse of Design Thinking4
Unfinished feminist futures: Designer’s fiction, theorist’s interpretation, and educator’s reflection4
Editor's Foreword4
Wild design and its activism in everyday urban life4
Transition with routes to greater inclusivity4
From making-based to innovation-based crafts: A comparative study on the UK and China4
Architectural Prototyping in Architectural Education: How design knowledge is constructed within physical-digital hybrid environments4
Implications of hospital workers’ sense of safety and effectiveness in participatory design3
Empathy design method based on immersive interactive experiential spaces: A case study of Parkinson’s disease in China3
Design thinking for entrepreneurship: An explorative inquiry into its practical contributions3
Measures affecting driving safety and experience in the era of semi-autonomous driving: In-vehicle interaction design toolkit3
Data science for service design: An introductory overview of methods and opportunities3
Design research landscape: A year in review3
Dreaming of 2053: Product design and the future of sleep3
Using Generative AI Midjourney to enhance divergent and convergent thinking in an architect’s creative design process3
Review on Design for Sustainability: A Multi-Level Framework from Products to Socio-Technical Systems by Fabrizio Ceschin and İdil Gaziulusoy3
The role of perception of affective quality in graphic design inspiration3
The metaphorical capacity of future-food : Enhancing design’s role in public engagement with emerging technologies3
Designing blockchain-based wearables for health monitoring3
Body map image coding to support wearable design for skin-to-skin contact2
Can we build trust by service design? A theoretical approach on multidisciplinary integration2
The Value of Design-driven Entrepreneurship2
User-driven product development: Designed by, not designed for2
Wayfinding for modern healthcare: A participatory approach to designing a wayfinding system in a Chinese Hospital Setting2
Theory into practice: Applying design for sustainable behaviour to drive single use cup recycling2
Photography and Design: Materializing the Ephemeral: Book Review on Photography from the Turin Shroud to the Turing Machine, by Toister Yanai, Intellect Books, 20202
In Search of Keys to Unlock Young Design Entrepreneurship2
Five components of social design: A unified framework to support research and practice2
Theory and design in the biotechnical age: A schematic understanding of Bio Design and Synthetic Biology practice2
The future of product design research units and manufacturing SMEs: Addressing sustainability challenges through innovation-driven research2
Design premise and diary study exploring felt senses as data for self-reflection2
Designing harvesting tools for olive trees: Methodological reflections on exploring and incorporating plant perspectives in the early stages of design process2
Kengo Kuma’s renovation of Gaudí’s Casa Batlló: A non-western designerly approach to addressing built heritage2
Future newspapers as a participatory design tool for Chinese rural service innovation2
Analysis of the visual cognition form on the digital exhibit labels to improve user experience: A case study of interpretative exhibitions in museums2
Imagining inclusive technological futures through participatory board game design2
A structural analysis of frontal car styling2
A Framework for Transitioning Designerly Ways: Interrogating 50 Years of Inclusive Design for Paediatric Mobility2
Can designers take the driver’s seat? A new human-centered process to design with data and machine learning2
Icon metaphor design based on ideographic Chinese character-creation2
The relationship between chinese characters and artefacts: A semantics mapping analysis2
Questions of behaviour, humanity, and practice2
Healthy aging adviser: Designing a service to support the life transitions and autonomy of older adults1
Prototyping longevity services: Tech-driven or human-assisted service?1
Enhancing brand consistency via integration of emotional graphic design and cloud service interface system1
Turning inwards for change – The role of inner conditions in transformative co-design1
Experience prototyping through virtual reality head-mounted displays: Design appraisals of automotive user interfaces1
Nurturing a stronger sense of community for global design research1
A user-centred collective system design approach for Smart Product-Service Systems: A case study on fitness product design1
Halfway to a mundane future of the 2050s: Case study of personal vehicle concept design for Indian megacities for 2035-20401
Promoting the social interaction in a historical community through participatory planning and design: An empirical study in Rural China1
Amplituhedron: A bio-melanin fibre synthesized from soil bacteria for the design of innovative sustainable garments1
Obstacles, Solutions and Creative Agencies: How Forces and Agencies Shape the Learning Process of Weaving1
Navigating Complexity through Co-Design: Visualising, Understanding and Activating Entrepreneurial Ecosystems1
Design education in transition: A multidisciplinary design classroom with non-allied disciplines1
Co-creation with crowdfunding backers for new products and entrepreneurial development: A longitudinal study on design entrepreneurs in Taiwan1
The sacred and profane in design: Exploring the transcendent nature of ordinary products1
Navigating the tensions of integrating lived experience in participatory healthcare design1
Making and makerspaces: Exploring community centres as creative hubs in China1
A product language-mediated concept construction model from the perspective of conceptual metaphor1
The relationship between design criticism and society in modern China: A case study of the Nanyang Industrial Exposition1
Developing an explanatory hypothesis for urban graphic heritage through the observation of physical traces1
Prototyping an IoT transparency toolkit to support communication, governance and policy in the smart city1
Stakeholders’ involvement in social design practices in Turkey1
Design-Driven Approaches to Enable Sustainable Entrepreneurship – Two Case Studies of Regional Textile Communities From the Philippines and the UK1
The located making framework for supporting craft maker enterprises in China1
Exploring post-human futures with design fiction among undergraduate students: implications for future-oriented design education1
SMEC: A card-based participatory design tool for seamless multimodal experience innovation in connected and autonomous vehicles1
Mycodesign: A new collaboration between mycomaterials and product design as a way to promote material identity1
Systematic literature review of legal design: Concepts, processes, and methods1
A Visual Tool for Understanding Wicked Problems in Design Research: A Case Study of Marginalized Youth Unemployment1
A Discussion of Processes to Create a Curriculum and Handbook for Co-Creation and Active Implementation of Co-Design with the Aim of Stimulating Collective Creativity1
Architectural design research: Drivers of practice1
Design is… corrupting1
Contributions towards a plurality in design narratives: Addressing dynamics between global and local discourses1
Communication for comprehension1
Experience matrix: A structured concept development method for the industrial design practice in new product development1
Borrowed Sceneries: The Influence of Japanese Garden Art on Swiss Landscape Architecture1
Is Democracy Designed?1
Exploring assistive technology stigma: An investigation of wheelchair design for post-stroke older adults in China1
Game design guidelines to foster empathic behaviours in school-age children1
Case study of design-driven innovation in Japanese high-end electrical fan market: Focusing on differences in originators1
Enacting individual ambidexterity in design entrepreneurship1
Informal learning in architectural education through sociomaterial approaches: Towards a network-based pedagogy in design education1
Design types in diversified city administration: The case City of Helsinki1
A critique of the representationalist framing of design1
Integrating randomness in parametric design: A tool for developing crafty additive manufactured designs1
Call for Co-Editor: The Design Journal1
Teaching Civic Participation With Digital Media In Art Education: Critical approaches for classrooms and communities1
Teatime: Exploring ways to support diverse narratives on sustainability through design1
Sequenced co-design with stakeholder communities to support the development of spaces for mental health recovery and healing1
‘Documentation-in-action’ in craft and design practice: Reflection on social organisation and prevailing tradition in the birdcage craft village in Indonesia1
Values of Design: China in the Making1
Indigenising design: The Seven Grandfathers’ Teachings as a design methodology1
Theory-Driven or Theory-Informed? A Review of Behavioural Economics in Design1
Issues of Power and Representation in/of the Local Context: The role of self-reflexivity and positionality in design research1
Promoting Emotional Durability and Sustainable Fashion Consumption through Art Derivatives Design Methods1
Design for environmentally sustainable furniture systems – the knowledge and know-how of furniture life cycle design and furniture sustainable product-service system design1
The potential of design-driven futuring to support strategising for sustainable futures1
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