Pub Date : 2026-01-22DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2025.101377
Karen Joyce, Janet Loebach
Design processes increasingly embrace participatory methods, yet systematic frameworks for analyzing diverse co-design outputs remain underdeveloped, especially those from children. This study introduces the Priority Experiences of Participants (PrEP) framework, a five-stage analytical approach for synthesizing multimodal co-design contributions into actionable design guidance. The framework employs the lens of affordances to identify “umbrella experiences,” high-level experiential priorities. Through mixed-methods triangulation, including content analysis, Q-Sort rankings, and qualitative analysis, the framework systematically synthesizes participant contributions into design guidance. The framework is illustrated through a schoolyard co-design case study with 9- to 10-year-olds. The PrEP framework provides a structured approach and accessible tools to support the effective inclusion of children in decision-making and the authentic translation of their priorities into design solutions.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-15DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2025.101376
Ksenia Piatkowska, Katarzyna Darecka
This study presents an integrated digital workflow for reconstructing the chronological architectural development of the Great Mill in Gdansk, a key example of late medieval industrial heritage. The research employs digital technologies not as an end in themselves but as instruments supporting evidence-based historical interpretation. The methodological framework combines archival documentation, terrestrial laser scanning, digital photogrammetry, manual measurement, and advanced 3D modeling to establish a precise timeline of the building's transformations from the mid-14th century to the present.
Special attention is given to the structured integration of heterogeneous data sources. Point cloud analysis provided a geometric baseline, complemented by archival plans, iconography, and manual surveying to address data voids and occlusions. Sequential modeling stages reflect distinct construction phases, enabling the verification and reinterpretation of uncertain architectural features.
The resulting 3D reconstructions form a coherent visual and analytical record of the monument's evolution. Beyond their documentary function, they support historical interpretation, conservation strategies, and museum dissemination, including exhibitions and educational media. This workflow demonstrates the effectiveness of combining metric precision with historical analysis and offers a transferable methodological model for the reconstruction of other partially preserved or lost heritage structures.
{"title":"Restoring the past digitally: A 3D visualization study of the Great Mill in Gdansk","authors":"Ksenia Piatkowska, Katarzyna Darecka","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2025.101376","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.destud.2025.101376","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study presents an integrated digital workflow for reconstructing the chronological architectural development of the Great Mill in Gdansk, a key example of late medieval industrial heritage. The research employs digital technologies not as an end in themselves but as instruments supporting evidence-based historical interpretation. The methodological framework combines archival documentation, terrestrial laser scanning, digital photogrammetry, manual measurement, and advanced 3D modeling to establish a precise timeline of the building's transformations from the mid-14th century to the present.</div><div>Special attention is given to the structured integration of heterogeneous data sources. Point cloud analysis provided a geometric baseline, complemented by archival plans, iconography, and manual surveying to address data voids and occlusions. Sequential modeling stages reflect distinct construction phases, enabling the verification and reinterpretation of uncertain architectural features.</div><div>The resulting 3D reconstructions form a coherent visual and analytical record of the monument's evolution. Beyond their documentary function, they support historical interpretation, conservation strategies, and museum dissemination, including exhibitions and educational media. This workflow demonstrates the effectiveness of combining metric precision with historical analysis and offers a transferable methodological model for the reconstruction of other partially preserved or lost heritage structures.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":"103 ","pages":"Article 101376"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2026-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145981881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-13DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2025.101378
Priya Narayanan, Snehal Nagarsheth
Place attachment alludes to human attachment to places. However, studies in the field have historically focused only on the ‘human’ component, disregarding the potential of the ‘place’ component to offer valuable clues as to how design and/or policy interventions can allow people to become attached to place. Not surprisingly, discourses consistently stop short at identifying whether or not people feel attached to places without venturing to explore how people could potentially get attached to places and what strategies could be employed to improve place attachment. This exploratory study contends that the solution lies in asking ‘whether and to what degree a place allows one to form attachment bonds with it’ rather than the generally asked ‘whether and to what degree one is/feels attached to a place’. To do so, it brings affordance into the dialogue between place theory and attachment theory, and establishes the rich possibilities offered by affordance studies to better understand specific attributes of place that encourage/discourage attachment. Further, place attachment affordance is conceptualized as a potentially measurable entity that can facilitate the formulation of deployable design/policy strategies to ensure that places allow people to get attached to them, thus improving place satisfaction and hence quality of life of users. This is done by clarifying why and how people form attachment bonds with places as well as the physical, notional and socio-spatial properties of a place that allow people to form attachment bonds with it.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2025.101374
Yue Wu, Yao Wang, Nai Yeen Gavin Lai, Nadia Tan, Shijian Luo, Kok Hoong Wong
Medical devices hold significant potential to influence patients' emotional experiences, thereby enhancing treatment compliance and healthcare efficacy. However, the impact of medical device design on patient emotions is largely underexplored. Drawing upon the Double Diamond Model and Gross’s Emotion Regulation Theory, this systematic review categorises the interdisciplinary innovation process of emotional design in medical devices into three stages: exploration, elaboration, and evaluation. This 3E framework serves as the key analytical tool for this study, providing a systematic interpretation of existing research across three dimensions: emotions and emotional needs, design strategies, and evaluation methods. This pre-registered systematic review follows PRISMA 2020 guidelines, analysing 71 studies (initial sample size = 11 461) published between 1986 and February 2024. The review identifies 25 positive and 31 negative emotions experienced by patients and underscores the importance of further exploring the design space for positive emotions. The review also incorporates Emotion Regulation Theory to provide deeper insights into emotional design strategies, categorising these strategies into five major types and identifying future interdisciplinary development trends. Current evaluation methods predominantly rely on interviews and questionnaires. There are insufficient robust quantitative tools that can capture nuanced product-related emotions. To improve patient well-being and enhance societal quality of life, further research into the emotional design of medical devices is urgently needed, necessitating a more comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach.
{"title":"Enhancing patient healthcare experience: A systematic review of emotional design in medical devices","authors":"Yue Wu, Yao Wang, Nai Yeen Gavin Lai, Nadia Tan, Shijian Luo, Kok Hoong Wong","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2025.101374","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.destud.2025.101374","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Medical devices hold significant potential to influence patients' emotional experiences, thereby enhancing treatment compliance and healthcare efficacy. However, the impact of medical device design on patient emotions is largely underexplored. Drawing upon the Double Diamond Model and Gross’s Emotion Regulation Theory, this systematic review categorises the interdisciplinary innovation process of emotional design in medical devices into three stages: exploration, elaboration, and evaluation. This 3E framework serves as the key analytical tool for this study, providing a systematic interpretation of existing research across three dimensions: emotions and emotional needs, design strategies, and evaluation methods. This pre-registered systematic review follows PRISMA 2020 guidelines, analysing 71 studies (initial sample size = 11 461) published between 1986 and February 2024. The review identifies 25 positive and 31 negative emotions experienced by patients and underscores the importance of further exploring the design space for positive emotions. The review also incorporates Emotion Regulation Theory to provide deeper insights into emotional design strategies, categorising these strategies into five major types and identifying future interdisciplinary development trends. Current evaluation methods predominantly rely on interviews and questionnaires. There are insufficient robust quantitative tools that can capture nuanced product-related emotions. To improve patient well-being and enhance societal quality of life, further research into the emotional design of medical devices is urgently needed, necessitating a more comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":"102 ","pages":"Article 101374"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145927464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2025.101373
Sheng-Hung Lee , Olivier de Weck
This study investigates how a mixed-methods approach and system modelling can uncover latent individual needs and their interrelationships to inform the design of longevity planning services. It employed constructivist grounded theory, exploratory factor analysis, and causal loop diagram (CLD) through 69 in-person experiments in Boston, US, controlling for age, gender, income, and assets. Data collection included pre- and post–experiment surveys, semi-structured interviews, and the integration of grounded theory and factor analysis to enhance CLD's efficacy in addressing longevity planning needs. The study identifies five key factors—health, lifestyle, social well-being, housing, and quality of life—and examines their interplay to advance service design. Combining system dynamics with qualitative research, the method captures the connections between sequential events and the complex interrelationships of people, time, and behaviour. The integration of CLD contextualizes data, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of variable interrelationships. This study contributes to design studies through three aspects: 1. An innovative mixed-methods approach integrating grounded theory, factor analysis, and CLD, 2. Advancements in service design research through systemic modelling of user needs, and 3. An emphasis on user-centered design that addresses multidimensional concerns. The findings offer evidence-based insights, enabling design researchers to develop more effective and inclusive longevity planning services and systems, while enriching the theoretical foundation of design for longevity.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2025.101372
Kin Wai Michael Siu, Yijia Jiang, Shiyu Liu, Huiyi Zhang, Keren Zhang
This study examines how design practices shape the participatory roles of visually impaired persons (VIPs) in recycling systems. By integrating affordance theory with case studies (n = 26), we investigate intervention mechanisms that shape VIPs' agency in food-mediated recycling (FMR), asking how food and related processes serve as catalytic mediators that indirectly facilitate VIPs' recycling behaviours. We identify three key affordance dimensions, with subcategories: sensory affordances (mono-/multi-/trans-sensory), recycling affordances (enabling/constraining/emergent), and VIPs' participatory roles (compensatory/co-creation agents/empowerment actors). The distribution of and relationships between multi-dimensional affordances are visualised using an alluvial diagram, yielding the following findings. 1) Current design interventions predominantly configure affordance pathways with multi-sensory affordances, constraint-type recycling affordances, and co-creation agent roles. 2) Modulated sensory/recycling affordances dynamically influence VIPs' participatory roles, which reciprocally activate their recycling behaviours. A multi-dimensional affordances design model for enhancing VIPs' agency in FMR is developed, integrating static components with dynamic design intervention pathways. This model provides an actionable framework that emphasises the mutually reinforcing effect of VIPs’ role transition and participation in recycling behaviours through affordance regulation, challenging ableist assumptions in sustainability discourse.
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This paper addresses the challenge novice designers face in the complex, multidisciplinary process of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) digitisation. We present Heritage Spark, a card-based toolkit designed to scaffold this process, and we discuss findings from our empirical evaluation through a 16-week design course involving 64 novice designers. The evaluation results indicate that the toolkit effectively supports novices by functioning as a cognitive scaffold, a collaborative medium, and a process guide helping to enhance empathy, expand knowledge, stimulate multi-dimensional inspiration, and foster synergistic effects. We argue that the Heritage Spark approach provides a generalisable method for developing scaffolding tools for other complex domains. Furthermore, we contribute to design theory by extending the taxonomy of card-based tools and advancing the discourse on design thinking by demonstrating how its simplified frameworks can be enriched with expert design methodologies.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-26DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2025.101371
Xinzhe Zhao, Jiayi Zou, Kin Wai Michael Siu, Tianjiao Zhao
In interdisciplinary collaboration design, arguments stemming from a lack of relevant knowledge can lead to wasted time and negative emotions. It is difficult for designers to maintain close collaboration with other experts and master diverse knowledge sufficiently within short timeframes. To address this problem, a within-subjects study was conducted based on the Double Diamond Model development process. This study developed an artificial intelligence (AI) agent based on behavioral activation clinical guidelines, self-help manuals, and interviews with 20 psychological experts. Thirty-one designers completed both the traditional design process and the AI-assisted design process as required. Sixty-two design outcomes were evaluated by design and psychology experts. The research results were analyzed based on expert ratings, AI conversation records, and open-ended questionnaires. The findings indicate that in interdisciplinary design, AI expert-assisted approaches yield design outcomes with greater effectiveness, completeness, and applicability. Analysis of conversation types and usage experiences indicates that guided interactions lead to higher-quality design outcomes, whereas command-based interactions have a negative impact. In AI-assisted interdisciplinary design, AI assists designers primarily by compensating for interdisciplinary knowledge, integrating information, optimizing details, and providing constructive improvement directions. To improve the AI-assisted design experience, AI needs to provide answers in multiple formats, connect with other design tools, and avoid excessive use of professional terms. Based on experimental and interview data, this study proposes the AI-assisted Interdisciplinary Design (AID) model, which aims to clarify the processes, roles, and capabilities of AI in interdisciplinary design.
{"title":"Experimental study on improving the quality of interdisciplinary design: Collaborate with AI psychology experts for design develop process","authors":"Xinzhe Zhao, Jiayi Zou, Kin Wai Michael Siu, Tianjiao Zhao","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2025.101371","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.destud.2025.101371","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In interdisciplinary collaboration design, arguments stemming from a lack of relevant knowledge can lead to wasted time and negative emotions. It is difficult for designers to maintain close collaboration with other experts and master diverse knowledge sufficiently within short timeframes. To address this problem, a within-subjects study was conducted based on the Double Diamond Model development process. This study developed an artificial intelligence (AI) agent based on behavioral activation clinical guidelines, self-help manuals, and interviews with 20 psychological experts. Thirty-one designers completed both the traditional design process and the AI-assisted design process as required. Sixty-two design outcomes were evaluated by design and psychology experts. The research results were analyzed based on expert ratings, AI conversation records, and open-ended questionnaires. The findings indicate that in interdisciplinary design, AI expert-assisted approaches yield design outcomes with greater effectiveness, completeness, and applicability. Analysis of conversation types and usage experiences indicates that guided interactions lead to higher-quality design outcomes, whereas command-based interactions have a negative impact. In AI-assisted interdisciplinary design, AI assists designers primarily by compensating for interdisciplinary knowledge, integrating information, optimizing details, and providing constructive improvement directions. To improve the AI-assisted design experience, AI needs to provide answers in multiple formats, connect with other design tools, and avoid excessive use of professional terms. Based on experimental and interview data, this study proposes the AI-assisted Interdisciplinary Design (AID) model, which aims to clarify the processes, roles, and capabilities of AI in interdisciplinary design.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":"102 ","pages":"Article 101371"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145842396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2025.101362
Maud Rio, Benjamin Tyl
The need for political, social, and economic paradigm shifts necessitates new design research methods to integrate sustainability into designer practices. However, eco-design approaches remain experimental and confined within industrial design practices. Simultaneously, grassroots initiatives have emerged, proposing alternative ways to design systems. This research examines eco-design approaches alongside local initiatives, seeking to understand the potential evolution of sustainability integration into the current product design process led by industries. To support this analysis, the study proposes and applies a protocol designed to compare eco-design methods with grassroots-initiative design practices, first putting eco-design methods into dialogue with grassroots initiative actors, and then with expert designers.
Findings include this original analysis of eco-design approaches and recommendations for eco-design research communities. This bottom-up approach has the potential to foster sustainability practices in industries that align with evolving local sociotechnical systems.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-15DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2025.101361
Mohsen Mohammadi, Alexander Koutamanis
Affordances—the action possibilities provided by the environment—are a central notion in ecological psychology, offering valuable insights into dynamic user-environment interactions. In recent years, affordance theory has gained traction in architecture and design for its potential to illuminate how users perceive and engage with built environments, informing both design thinking and performance evaluation. Despite this growing interest, its application within architectural design research remains limited. This article introduces an affordance-based evaluation framework developed to analyze how built environments enable or constrain adaptive user behaviors. Grounded in ecological psychology and architectural theory, the framework provides a structured approach for assessing usability, anticipating behavioral variability, and aligning design outcomes with diverse user needs. By explicitly linking architectural intention with situated user-environment interaction, the framework contributes a design-oriented methodology for improving responsiveness, inclusivity, and the adaptive capacity of the built environment throughout its lifecycle.
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