Making Design Research Visible

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Published: 2025-04-27
DOI: https://doi.org/10.34314/rgn7xe38
Keywords:
design discipline, design research

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Nigel Cross
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Abstract

Design research now has an established history extending over more than 60 years. The current robust state of the field indicates that there has been real development and consolidation, including the establishment of academic journals. Most significantly, design is now recognized as an academic discipline. Disciplines need good journals in order to flourish — research has to be made visible.

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Vol. 59 No. 1 (2025): Visible Language Consortium (April 2025)

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Invited Article
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Author Biography

Nigel Cross, The Open University

Nigel Cross is Emeritus Professor of Design Studies, The Open University, UK. He has considerable experience as a design teacher and an international reputation as a design researcher through books such as Analysing Design Activity, Designerly Ways of Knowing, and Design Thinking: Understanding How Designers Think and Work. He was a founding editor of the journal Design Studies in 1979 and its editor-in-chief from 1984 to 2017.

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