With the call for patient-centred healthcare, designers and healthcare professionals collaborate increasingly, as both health and design researchers advocate closer engagement between the two. Yet ...

This paper prompts an introductory overview regarding the historical paths and the theoretical-practical properties of social design in the realm of design education in Brazil. Initially, the prece...

On-demand shared transportation is a major new mobility innovation and potentially the main mode of transport in coming decades. Studies show that driverless vehicles have potential to accelerate u...

Design methods have long been proposed as educational devices and, increasingly, as approaches for engaging with societal issues. While media, cultural and political narratives continue to debate b...

It is a common challenge for designers to truly understand users’ behaviours and specific needs for universal design in the healthcare setting. This study proposes a new design method that allows d...

Participatory design initiatives help promote more voice on the work floor—if the social dynamics are encouraging. Interest in understanding employee voice is rising due to being linked to employee...

Published in The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design (Vol. 27, No. 5, 2024)

Sustainability-focused design research is witnessing a change in approach with the emergence of More-than-human Design (MTHD), which challenges human-centered thinking by incorporating nonhuman per...

Currently, there is a lack of in-depth research on the associative evaluation and developmental trajectory of the environmental design scheme construction process. Epistemic Network Analysis (ENA) ...

Using genetic visualization technology to effectively convey cultural information plays an important role in preserving cultural heritage. The key to preserving and developing cultural ecology leve...

Expertise research studies show that experts more effectively allocate their attentional resources and exhibit distinct gaze behaviour. This study aims to investigate the effect of design expertise...

Bio Design represents a new approach to integrating biological systems and processes into design, challenging traditional boundaries between the natural and artificial. Despite its potential, Bio D...

This study explores how design intervention can promote the transformation of the traditional craft industry into the distributed manufacturing model. First, theories relevant to distributed manufa...

This study aims to explore how prototypes, sketches and CAD models supported designers during the designers during the early ideation, idea development in the engineering design process flow. Using...

Design students, professionals, and academics often use design labels, such as social design, co-design, and sustainable design, to position or explain their work. We argue that the labels are insu...

Humanity has reached the point where current consumer lifestyles are not sustainable, and this status quo must be disrupted if we are to slow down climate change. Personalisation is a technique whi...

With their intricate visual structure and cultural significance, Chinese characters present a unique realm for exploration in graphic design. However, the integration of graphic elements, such as t...

Published in The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design (Ahead of Print, 2024)

Published in The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design (Vol. 27, No. 5, 2024)

As people pay more attention to users’ subjective experiences, emotion becomes more important for productions and designers. Emotion has been defined, classified, and evaluated through interaction ...

Published in The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design (Vol. 27, No. 4, 2024)

Published in The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design (Ahead of Print, 2024)

This practice-based research adapts Kathakali and Khon make-up and costume design methodologies for jewellery making to study classical performing arts materiality. The researcher creates Kathakali...

This paper explores how prop-based virtual reality storytelling (VR&P-ST) can enhance user-centred product conceptual design (UCPCD) by the perspective of ‘computing with things’. The study introdu...

This study aims to reveal the concepts that constitute space through architectural discourses. Within the scope of this study, a conceptual reading model has been developed based on theoretical and...

Public participation in heritage conservation is an area that lacks proper investigation in the urban planning and design discipline. To address this gap, this paper presents an empirical study of ...

The co-design approach is increasingly popular in facilitating the interchange of knowledge among multiple stakeholders. However, a new challenge emerged during the post-pandemic era when working f...

Airline food waste is a critical issue which is affected by passenger behaviour. In parallel with the unexpected advent of COVID-19, passengers have exhibited changes in eating behaviour, generatin...

Semi-autonomous driving technology has rapidly advanced, enhancing driver convenience and comfort. However, ensuring driving safety remains a critical challenge for autonomous vehicle development. ...

Urban graphic heritage has recently come to the fore connected to cities’ economic, social, cultural, and environmental development through design. This paper charts the development of urban graphi...

There has been a dramatic growth in the ways of involving users in various product, service, space, and systems development activities. Various categorizations, listings, and mappings have been pro...

Architects use a range of tools, from the traditional pencil to Virtual Reality technologies to prototype and articulate their creative designs. In recent years, Generative Artificial Intelligence ...

Published in The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design (Vol. 27, No. 3, 2024)

In product design practice, the user experience is directly related to the concepts that users interpret in the product language. Therefore, the designer’s ability to construct concepts through pro...

Published in The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design (Ahead of Print, 2024)

We designed Value Awareness Measurement (VAM) to know how much design students know about human values and how they estimate their awareness of this concept. VAM is a questionnaire with four scales...

The neighbourhood is a significant place for older adults in later life, especially given their strong wish to age in place, pointing to the importance of age-friendly design that accommodates olde...

Investigating stroke patients with hemiplegia, this study explores how various pre-factors and personal characteristics influence their intention to use interactive gaming devices (IGDs) for hand r...

Since their emergence, technologies have been applied to sustainable development in urban contexts. However, as the pace of climate change is still rapidly increasing, the question remains: what ar...

Design activism theory calls on designers to take responsibility for using their design skills to make real social change though influencing the mindset of their audience. This paper discusses the ...

Drawing on findings from an ethnographic study, the paper at hand provides an example of a pronounced way of working with montage as a means of mobilizing knowledge in the architectural design proc...

Published in The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design (Vol. 27, No. 1, 2024)

Published in The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design (Vol. 27, No. 1, 2024)

This study aims to clarify the differences in processes, outcomes, and post-launch ripple effects in design-driven innovation (DDI), starting from industrial designers (IDs) and developmental techn...

A sustainable future requires prioritising concerns like the well-being of older individuals, considering the world’s rapidly ageing population. This PhD thesis applies the research through an inte...

In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) in the form of generative deep learning models have proliferated as a tool to facilitate or exhibit creativity across various design fields. When it co...

This paper explores how specific products transcend their utilitarian purposes, evoking profound consumer fascination. These objects, characterized by an elusive quality surpassing practicality, ac...

Emerging technologies have significantly contributed to the evolution of traditional product-service systems (PSS) into smart PSS. This transformation demands a fresh perspective and a more inventi...

In 2021, we conducted a series of experimental participatory design workshops that brought diverse groups of participants together to create a board game. The purpose of this project was to use par...

Brands selling consumer products are known to strategically use a distinct and consistent style or design language across their portfolios, in order to communicate their brand identities and differ...

The new millennium has marked a dramatic proliferation in the ways by which users are involved in various product, service, space and systems development activities. Particularly digital services a...

Published in The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design (Ahead of Print, 2023)

Machine Learning (ML) is increasingly becoming a crucial asset across diverse industries. However, designers lack human-centered processes to envision and develop innovative solutions enabled by ML...

Digital devices are increasingly popular in museums; they introduce audiences to new user experiences. The impact of the visual cognition form of digital exhibit labels on user experience in museum...

Aiming to illustrate the populist influences on design mediation, this paper explores the characteristics of a new and legitimate designer profile, persona, or myth recently constructed within the ...

In this article, we build on space and place theory to define sonic space and sonic place as fundamental concepts for designers who wish to incorporate audible elements into their work. Based on an...

The field of design for circular economy lacks comprehensive and systematic design aids to support users to generate ideas quickly and effectively. This study uses ReSOVLE as a framework, incorpora...

People place tools on their bodies during daily activities that impact their health and safety. Mapping the locations of this equipment and evaluating the appropriateness of these locations can aid...

Published in The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design (Vol. 26, No. 6, 2023)

Published in The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design (Vol. 26, No. 6, 2023)