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.
Submissions are now open to the journal.
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.
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.
For further information about Designing and to submit your manuscript please visit the Sage Journal Website: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/DES.