Design Studies is a leading international academic journal focused on developing understanding of design processes. It studies design activity across all domains of application, including engineering and product design, architectural and urban design, computer artefacts and systems design. It therefore provides an interdisciplinary forum for the analysis, development and discussion of fundamental aspects of design activity, from cognition and methodology to values and philosophy.

Design Studies publishes work that is concerned with the process of designing, and is relevant to a broad audience of researchers, teachers and practitioners. We welcome original, scientific and scholarly research papers reporting studies concerned with the process of designing in all its many fields, or furthering the development and application of new knowledge relating to design process. Papers should be written to be intelligible and pertinent to a wide range of readership across different design domains. To be relevant for this journal, a paper has to offer something that gives new insight into or knowledge about the design process, or assists new development of the processes of designing. Please refer also the Guide for Authors.

original, scientific and scholarly research papers

Editor-in-Chief
Professor P. Lloyd
TU Delft, Netherlands Email Professor P. Lloyd
Associate Editors
R.S. Adams
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
A. Dong
The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
A. Heylighen
KU Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium
D. Snelders
TU Delft, Delft, Netherlands
Deputy Editor
R. Luck
The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Editorial Board
C. Atman
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States
L. Ball
University of Central Lancashire, Preston, United Kingdom
T. Bhamra
Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom
J. Cagan
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
P. Cash, PhD, MEng
Technical University of Denmark, Kongens(Kgs) Lyngby, Denmark
A. Chakrabarti
Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
B.T. Christensen
Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark
N. Crilly
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
K. Dorst
University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
D. Durling
Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom
K. Friedman
Tongji University College of Design and Innovation, Shanghai, China
K. Fu
Georgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
P. Galle
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture Design and Conservation Design School, Copenhagen, Denmark
T. Knight
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
T. Kvan
The University of Melbourne Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning, Swanston, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
B. Lawson
The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
K.-P. Lee
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong
B. Matthews
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
A. Oak, PhD, MA(RCA)
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
J. Redström, PhD, Docent
Umea University, Umeå, Sweden
P. Rodgers
Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
E. Stolterman
Indiana University Bloomington School of Informatics and Computing, Bloomington, Indiana, United States
M. Tovey
Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom
M. Yang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Emeritus Editor-in-Chief
N.G. Cross
The Open University Department of Engineering and Innovation, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom