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An east wind is blowing The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-05 Louise Valentine, Noël Palomo-Lovinski, Wei Liu, Kirsty Christer
Published in The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design (Vol. 27, No. 5, 2024)
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Designing harvesting tools for olive trees: Methodological reflections on exploring and incorporating plant perspectives in the early stages of design process The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Berre Su Yanlıç, Aykut Coşkun
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...
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Genetic visualization of cultural heritage: A case study of Zhuxian Town woodblock prints The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Haoran Liu, Hassan Alli, Irwan Syah Md Yusoff
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...
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Expert gaze behaviour in design evaluation: An eye-tracking study The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Linna Hu, Dung Le, So-Yeon Yoon, Mardelle McCuskey Shepley
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...
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Theory and design in the biotechnical age: A schematic understanding of Bio Design and Synthetic Biology practice The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Martyn Dade-Robertson, Meng Zhang
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...
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Design intervention strategies for revitalizing the traditional craft industry through distributed manufacturing The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Youzhi Chen, Kin Wai Michael Siu, Luca Fois, Xiaoshan Li
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...
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Deep permutation type design for Chinese characters The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 De’en Chen, Kostas Terzidis, Filippo Fabrocini
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...
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Investigating the correlation between visual representation flow, physical prototyping, and designers’ creativity The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Siti Salwa Isa, Andre Liem, Martin Steinert, Nor Lelawati Jamaludin
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...
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Different flags over shared terrain: Making sense of ‘design labels’ The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Pieter Jan Stappers, Froukje Sleeswijk Visser, Annemiek van Boeijen
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...
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Pathways to green personalisation: Reducing consumption through design The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Iryna Kuksa, Anthony Kent, Harry West
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...
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Somaesthetics and Design Culture: A Pragmatist Approach to Embodied Design The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Erdem Üngür
Published in The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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How do emotions evolve? The effect of emotions in the interactive scenes of a new product trial The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Yi Zhou, Wei Xiang, Hao Jiang, Kui Zuo, Yujia Lu
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 ...
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Elements in Landscape; Areas, Distances, Dimensions The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Sajad Asadi Alekouei, Mohammad Reza Khalilnezhad, Majid Amani-Beni
Published in The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design (Vol. 27, No. 5, 2024)
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Communication for comprehension The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Noel Palomo-Lovinski
Published in The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design (Vol. 27, No. 4, 2024)
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Growing Architecture How to Design and Build with Trees, by Ferdinand Ludwig and Daniel Schönle, Birkhäuser Verlag (Basel) The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Mohammad Reza Khalilnezhad, Sajad Asadi Alekouei, Mina Soleymani Dashtaki
Published in The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Exploring materiality in craft: Translating techniques of make-up and costume design in Kathakali and Khon in jewellery making The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Patcharabhorn Lueraj
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...
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‘Rhetoric’ in the design process: The role of prop-based virtual reality storytelling in user-centred product conceptual design The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Qing Gong, Zihao Wang, Yucong Chen, Ning Zou
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...
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Concept-space analysis through architectural discourses The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Gamze Atay, Altay Çolak
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...
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Promoting the social interaction in a historical community through participatory planning and design: An empirical study in Rural China The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Yubin Xu
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 ...
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Engagement and creativity in gamified remote co-design workshops: A comparison experimental study The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Ziheng Zhang, Rui Patricio, Francesco Zurlo, Gianluca Carella
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...
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Design-led solutions for reducing airline food waste: A participatory approach to develop behaviour change interventions The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Fangzhou You, Tracy Bhamra, Debra Lilley, Nikki Clark
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...
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Measures affecting driving safety and experience in the era of semi-autonomous driving: In-vehicle interaction design toolkit The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Ye Zhou, Ying Jiang
Semi-autonomous driving technology has rapidly advanced, enhancing driver convenience and comfort. However, ensuring driving safety remains a critical challenge for autonomous vehicle development. ...
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Developing an explanatory hypothesis for urban graphic heritage through the observation of physical traces The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Robert G. Harland
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...
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Making sense of methods and approaches to user involvement The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Sampsa Hyysalo, Mikael Johnson
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...
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Using Generative AI Midjourney to Enhance Divergent and Convergent Thinking in an Architect’s Creative Design Process The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Linus Tan, Max Luhrs
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 ...
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The role of design in society The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Wei Liu
Published in The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design (Vol. 27, No. 3, 2024)
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A product language-mediated concept construction model from the perspective of conceptual metaphor The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Pengyu Du, Kin Wai Michael Siu, Yi-Teng Shih
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...
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Questions of behaviour, humanity, and practice The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Noël Palomo-Lovinski
Published in The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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How to measure the human value awareness of design students? The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Shadi Kheirandish, Matthias Rauterberg
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...
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The ‘right’ place to age? Exploring age-friendly and diversity-sensitive design in a super-diverse neighbourhood The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Micheline Phlix, Ruth Stevens, Jan Vanrie, An-Sofie Smetcoren, Ann Petermans
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...
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A study on the intention of upper limb hemiplegic patients to use interactive gaming devices for hand rehabilitation The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Chujun Yang, Chih-Fu Wu, Jingyan Wang, Wen-Chi Chen, Haoyen Chang, Dan Dan Xu
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...
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Designing technology for smart and sustainable cities of tomorrow – What can we learn from IPCC’s sixth assessment report? The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Teija Vainio
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...
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Designerly resistance: Professional object design in support of Lebanon’s street protests The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Karma Dabaghi
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 ...
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Montage as process of knowledge mobilization in architectural design The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Jan Silberberger
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...
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Design is… redefining measurement – confrontation with climate catastrophe: Beyond objectivity and towards regenerative impact The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Chris Speed
Published in The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design (Vol. 27, No. 1, 2024)
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Exposure and embracing vulnerability The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Louise Valentine
Published in The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design (Vol. 27, No. 1, 2024)
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Case study of design-driven innovation in Japanese high-end electrical fan market: Focusing on differences in originators The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Yoshito Kubo, Osamu Sato
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...
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Development of an extended TAM model for enabling online social experience with smart home displays for older adults The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Ke Ma
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...
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An application of generative AI for knitted textile design in fashion The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Xiaopei Wu, Li Li
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...
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The sacred and profane in design: Exploring the transcendent nature of ordinary products The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Serkan Güneş, Çisem Ercömert Görgün
This paper explores how specific products transcend their utilitarian purposes, evoking profound consumer fascination. These objects, characterized by an elusive quality surpassing practicality, ac...
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A user-centred collective system design approach for Smart Product-Service Systems: A case study on fitness product design The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Cong Fang, Wei Liu, Huan Lin, Yuge Qi, Xin Tian, Yi Huang, Stephen Jia Wang
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...
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Imagining inclusive technological futures through participatory board game design The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Adriaan Odendaal, Karla Zavala Barreda
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...
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Competing through brand style: A systematic approach to explain style strategies in product design The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Shoubhik Dutta Roy, Wricha Mishra
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...
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Making sense of methods and approaches to user involvement, part 2 The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Sampsa Hyysalo, Mikael Johnson
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...
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Opening Spaces Design as Landscape Architecture The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Laleh Dehghanifarsani, Mohammad Reza Khalilnezhad, Majid Amani-Beni
Published in The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Can designers take the driver’s seat? A new human-centered process to design with data and machine learning The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Sara Colombo, Camilla Costa
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...
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Analysis of the visual cognition form on the digital exhibit labels to improve user experience: A case study of interpretative exhibitions in museums The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Hesen Li, Yuxin Liu, Xingda Zang, Shuyi Wang, Liyan Bu
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...
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Populist influences on design: Mediation of a new designer profile in Turkish advertising discourse The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Emrah Özturan
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 ...
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Sonic placemaking—facilitating listening behaviour through design The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Anne-Sofie Udsen, Kim Halskov
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...
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Design Heuristics Cards for circular economy to support generating ideas The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Xin Cao, Yen Hsu, Honglei Lu
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...
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Body map image coding to support wearable design for skin-to-skin contact The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Crystal Compton, Abigail Clarke-Sather, Jessica L. Ridgway, Lindsay Naylor
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...
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Leading by design The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Wei Liu
Published in The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design (Vol. 26, No. 6, 2023)
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Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Kamran Abbasi, Parveen Ali, Virginia Barbour, Thomas Benfield, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Gregory E. Erhabor, Stephen Hancocks, Richard Horton, Laurie Laybourn-Langton, Robert Mash, Peush Sahni, Wadeia Mohammad Sharief, Paul Yonga, Chris Zielinski
Published in The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design (Vol. 26, No. 6, 2023)
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Temporalities of a DIY biocomposite through material exploration The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Deniz Tümerdem, Leman Figen Gül
The paper aims to unravel a do-it-yourself biocomposite’s relationship with time and its various implications from a theoretical standpoint. The study derives from shrinkage & warpage behaviour of ...
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A structural analysis of frontal car styling The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Ümit Bayırlı
The visual appearance of the products is a significant factor that defines their characteristics. As one of the most significant artefacts associated with characters and pareidolia, cars and car fa...
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Designing for people you can’t meet: Persuasive design to nurture seniors’ participation in community services during the COVID-19 pandemic The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Mingzhu Li, Miso Kim, Liqing Huang, Houjiang Liu
During the COVID-19 pandemic, seniors were required to strictly isolate themselves, as the disease affects them disproportionately. Simultaneously, seniors had particular difficulty adjusting to th...
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Desert control innovation with design thinking: A case study of the Malan-Lake project The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Jianchun Zhu
The world’s deserts are vast, and unfortunately the degree of damage is also significantly high. Worse still, people’s extensive reclamation has caused its constant expansion and invasion, even res...
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Call for papers for a special issue: Dream of 2053 – Futuring innovative product design The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 K. Scott Swan, Louise Valentine, Marina Candi
Published in The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design (Vol. 26, No. 6, 2023)
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Can we build trust by service design? A theoretical approach on multidisciplinary integration The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Wanqiang Li
Over the past decades, ‘trust’ has gained recognition as an important concept in service research, playing a vital role in establishing long-lasting and strong relationships between service provide...
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Obstacles, Solutions and Creative Agencies: How Forces and Agencies Shape the Learning Process of Weaving The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Bilge Merve Aktaş, Anniliina Omwami, Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, Maarit Mäkelä
This paper explores how design students overcome various obstacles they encounter during their design processes. By studying the processes of three textile design students during their weaving cour...