Journal of Design Research
- Editor in Chief
- Prof. Jouke Verlinden
- ISSN online
- 1569-1551
- ISSN print
- 1748-3050
- 4 issues per year
- CiteScore 0.6 (2023)
JDR is an interdisciplinary journal, emphasising human aspects as a central issue of design through integrative studies of social sciences and design disciplines. Originally published as an electronic journal publishing articles including multimedia applications and hence allowing visual knowledge transfer, it is now also available in print.
Topics covered include
- Expertise in design
- Design learning strategies and design pedagogy
- Design as a social process
- Gaming and simulation in design
- Designing user interfaces
- The role of visual techniques in the design process
- Design tools
- Sustainability
Objectives
- To bring together theories, models and actual products from related design areas, including engineering, architecture, industrial design and planning
- To emphasise human aspects as a central issue of design through integrative studies of social sciences and design disciplines
- To offer a platform for high-quality research, theory making, analysis, education, and practice
- To support the dialogue between practitioners and academics, avoiding a purely academic discussion on design science
- To highlight new developments in artifact design
Readership
Design is an interdisciplinary and integrative process constituting an intellectual field of thinking and research and a professional field of practice and applied research. Therefore, design research will play one of two roles: (1) the scientific study of the process and the content of design, and (2) the development of methods and tools to enhance the quality of design practice based on the body of knowledge developed by the scientific study. JDR provides knowledge in both areas and helps academics, researchers and professional designers working in the field of design and design engineering to disseminate information and to learn from each other's work.
Contents
JDR publishes original papers, review papers, case studies, conference reports, book reviews, notes, and commentaries. Special Issues devoted to important topics in design will occasionally be published.
JDR is indexed in:
- Scopus (Elsevier)
- Academic OneFile (Gale)
- cnpLINKer (CNPIEC)
- DAAI: Design and Applied Arts Index
- Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale)
- OneFile Business (Gale)
- General OneFile (Gale)
- Google Scholar
- Info Trac (Gale)
- Inspec (Institution of Engineering and Technology)
- J-Gate
- ProQuest Advanced Technologies Database with Aerospace
JDR is listed in:
More journal lists/directories...Editor in Chief
- Verlinden, Jouke, University of Antwerp, Belgium
(editor.jdrgmail.com)
Editors
- Ludden, Geke D.S., University of Twente, Netherlands
- Rognoli, Valentina, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Wever, Renee, Linköping University, Sweden
Editorial Board Members
- Ahmadpour, Naseem, University of Sydney, Australia
- Amatullo, Mariana, Parsons School of Design, USA
- Bhamra, Tracy, Loughborough University , UK
- Boks, Casper, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway
- Christiaans, Henri, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea
- de Carvalho, Marly Monteiro, University of São Paulo, Brazil
- Evans, Martyn, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
- Friedman, Ken, Tongji University, China
- Gaziulusoy, Idil, Aalto University, Finland
- Love, Terence, Design Out Crime and CPTED Centre, Australia
- Manzini, Ezio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- McMahon, Chris, University of Bristol, UK
- Mellick Lopes, Abby, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
- Mugge, Ruth, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
- Poldma, Tiiu, University of Montreal, Canada
- Pombo, Fátima, Aveiro University, Portugal
- Sariyildiz, Sevil, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
- Sosa, Ricardo, Monash University, Australia
- Subrahmanian, Eswran, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Summers, Joshua D., The University of Texas at Dallas, USA
- Winschiers-Theophilus, Heike, Polytechnic of Namibia, Namibia
A few essentials for publishing in this journal
- Submitted articles should not have been previously published or be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.
- Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written (more details available here) and the author has cleared any necessary permissions with the copyright owner if it has been previously copyrighted.
- Briefs and research notes are not published in this journal.
- All our articles go through a double-blind review process.
- All authors must declare they have read and agreed to the content of the submitted article. A full statement of our Ethical Guidelines for Authors (PDF) is available.
- There are no charges for publishing with Inderscience, unless you require your article to be Open Access (OA). You can find more information on OA here.
- All articles for this journal must be submitted using our online submissions system.
- View Author guidelines.
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Journal news
Hybridising physical product development
9 January, 2025
Increasing complexity, evolving consumer expectations, and tightened development timelines means that physical product development increasingly comes unstuck when conventional methodologies are used. The predominant systems engineering frameworks have structure and predictability, but often falter when innovation is needed to fill the gap in modern markets. Companies have turned to agile approaches to help them transform their approach to software development, for instance. But, there are major obstacles to the adoption of that kind of approach for the development of physical products, where material constraints, prototyping costs, and supply chain integration are always critical factors. A new hybrid framework is discussed in the Journal of Design Research that might address some of the issues. Frank Koppenhagen, Tobias Held, of Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg, Tim Blümel of Porsche AG in Weissach, Paul D. Kollmer of the University of Hamburg, Germany, and Christoph H. Wecht of the New Design University in St. Pölten, Austria, describe a new model, Systematic Engineering-Design-Thinking (SEDT). In this approach, the strengths of systems engineering is combined with the user-centric, principles of design thinking to create a more adaptive and innovative product development pathway. SEDT builds on the Stanford University ME310 process, which has proven itself to some degree in academia and industry, but an expansion was always needed [...]
More details...Wheels within wheels
15 January, 2025
Architects and industrial designers play an important part in what we might term the circular economy (CE). This is a sustainability framework that aims to minimize waste by reusing and regenerating resources. Research in the Journal of Design Research has surveyed practitioners in The Netherlands and Sweden to see whether there is growing enthusiasm for circular design strategies and what significant challenges remain to be overcome. Giliam Dokter, Jonathan Edgardo Cohen, Sofie Hagejärd, Oskar Rexfelt, and Liane Thuvander of Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, surveyed 114 professionals. They found that almost two-thirds of them engaged with CE-related projects, while a similar proportion reported that there were shifts within their organizations to support such initiatives [...]
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