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...