Designing
Designing is the activity through which complex, multi-faceted problematics can be addressed through creating and shaping new functions, forms, relations, and experiences. The range of practices, methods, materials, and interests that constitute designing make the study of design processes a rich and powerful way of representing what designers and other actors are often unable to articulate.
Designing is an international, peer-reviewed journal for scholarship looking at processes of design. We welcome rigorous research across a plurality of methods, approaches and perspectives offering new insight or knowledge about any aspect of design processes or contributing to innovative ways of designing.
Processes of design link long-standing disciplines of architecture, engineering, industrial design, and software design with new and emerging disciplines like policy design, bio-design, human-computer interaction, healthcare design, and service design.
In addition to research articles, Designing publishes peer-reviewed critical commentary, including research notes, as well as short papers and reviews relating to the research community. Designing also welcomes proposals for themed special sections.
Designing is the journal of the Design Research Society.
Designing is dedicated to advancing the understanding of design processes through empirical, theoretical, and critical inquiry, inclusive of all disciplines and professions. Designing provides a platform for the analysis and discussion of practices, methods, theories, technologies, pedagogies, and histories relating to design activity.
We seek to develop and capture the highest-quality, cross-disciplinary research that provides new insight into the process of design in all its forms – cognitive, social, organisational, technical, ethical – using research methods from the social and human sciences, the arts, science, and engineering.
The mission of Designing is twofold: first, to become the leading journal for research relating to designing. Second, to establish and develop design research in all regions of the world to achieve greater representation and increased global diversity.
We invite novel and rigorous articles that offer new insight or knowledge about design processes or contribute to innovative ways of designing by representing and developing new practices, methods, theories, histories, and pedagogies.
Such contributions may come in a variety of peer-reviewed formats:
- Standard research articles of between 5,000 and 10,000 words.
- Research notes of between 3,000 and 5,000 words.
- Critical commentary of between 1,500 and 3,000 words. Please note that this article type will be subject to editorial review and may be subject to peer review where appropriate.
The journal also invites proposals for special themed sections of research articles and publishes author submitted letters to the editor, book reviews, and other short communications relating to the discipline.
Designing is the journal of the Design Research Society
| Peter Lloyd | TU Delft, The Netherlands |
| Robin Adams | Purdue University, USA |
| Philip Cash | Northumbria University, UK |
| Jaap Daalhuizen | TU Delft, The Netherlands |
| Tomás Dorta | University of Montreal, Canada |
| Colin Gray | Indiana University, USA |
| Laura Hay | Defankle Innovation Ltd, UK |
| Sampsa Hyysalo | Aalto University, Finland |
| Rachael Luck | The Open University, UK |
| Owain Pedgley | METU, Turkey |
| Fernando Secomandi | TU Delft, The Netherlands |
| Heather Wiltse | Umeå University, Sweden |
| Cindy Atman | University of Washington, US |
| Linden Ball | University of Lancashire, UK |
| Weston Baxter | Imperial College, UK |
| Tracy Bhamra | Royal Holloway, University of London, UK |
| Tua Bjorkland | Aalto University, Finland |
| Andrea Botero | Aalto University, Finland |
| Jonathan Cagan | Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
| Fabricio Ceschin | Brunel University, UK |
| Amaresh Chakrabarti | Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India |
| Lin-Lin Chen | Eindhoven University, The Netherlands |
| Bo Christensen | Copenhagen Business School, Denmark |
| Jude Chua | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
| Alice Comi | Tongji University, China |
| Nathan Crilly | University of Cambridge, UK |
| Nigel Cross | The Open University, UK |
| Shanna Daly | University of Michigan, USA |
| Brian Dixon | Ulster University, UK |
| Fehmi Dogan | Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey |
| Kees Dorst | University of Technology Sydney, Australia |
| Abigail Durrant | Newcastle University, UK |
| Jodi Forlizzi | Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
| Ken Friedman | Tongji University, China |
| Katherine Fu | University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA |
| Per Galle | Royal Danish Academy, Denmark |
| Idil Gaziulusoy | Aalto University, Finland |
| Elisa Giaccardi | Politecnico di Milano, Italy |
| Gabriella Goldschmidt | Technion, Israel |
| Kosa Goucher-Lambert | University of California Berkeley, USA |
| Ann Heylighen | KU Leuven, Belgium |
| Katja Holtta-Otto | University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Derek Jones | The Open University, UK |
| Iestyn Jowers | The Open University, UK |
| Terry Knight | MIT, USA |
| Cindy Kohtala | Umeå University, Sweden |
| Blair Kuys | Swinburne University, Australia |
| Thomas Kvan | University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Bryan Lawson | University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK |
| Kun-Pyo Lee | Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China |
| Renata Marques Leitao | Cornell University, US |
| Dan Lockton | Norwich University of the Arts, UK |
| Jason Macdonald | Brigham Young University, US |
| Ben Matthews | University of Queensland , Australia |
| Chris McComb | Carnegie Mellon University, US |
| Jessica Menold | Pennsylvania State University, US |
| Tek-Jin Nam | Korean Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea |
| Arlene Oak | University of Alberta, Canada |
| Ceridwen Owen | University of Tasmania, Australia |
| Gabriela Trindade Perry | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil |
| Philip Plowright | Lawrence Technological University, US |
| Larissa Pschetz | University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Johan Redstrom | Umea University, Sweden |
| Paul Rodgers | Strathclyde University, UK |
| Abhigyan Singh | TU Delft, The Netherlands |
| Rachel Charlotte Smith | Aarhus University, Denamrk |
| Dirk Snelders | TU Delft, The Netherlands |
| Chris Speed | RMIT, Australia |
| Cristiano Storni | University of Limerick, Ireland |
| Christine Toh | University of Nebraska, US |
| Theodora Vardouli | McGill University, Canada |
| Alex Wilkie | Goldsmiths University, UK |
| Maria Yang | MIT, US |