The first issue of Volume 3 of Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal is now available.

Volume 3, Number 1 contains:

• Conceptual Design, Nanotechnology, and a Rhetoric of Imminence by Isabel Pedersen.
• The Origins of Iran’s Traditional Architectural Elements: Sustainable Architecture Principles in a Hot-Arid Climate by Mohammad Mehdi Ghiai and Mojtaba Mahdavinia.
• Design Attributions: The Role of Self-Identity, Personality, and Emotion by Steven A. Murphy, Nicolas Papadopoulos and Alia El Banna.
• An Ecology for Design: From the Natural, Through the Artificial, To the Un-Natural by Viveka Turnbull Hocking.
• The Design Principles Database: A Multipurpose Tool for the Educational Technology Community by Yael Kali, Rachel Levin-Peled, Tamar Ronen-Fuhrmann and Meytal Hans.

• Facilitating Social Constructivist Learning Environments for Product Design Students Using Social Software (Web2) and Wireless Mobile Devices by Thomas Cochrane, Isaac Flitta and Roger Bateman.
• Teachers as Designers of Online Activities: The Role of Socio-Constructivist Pedagogies in Sustaining Implementation by Tamar Shamir-Inbal and Yael Kali.
• A Chair to Look to the Moon: What We Can Learn from Irrational Design History for Contemporary Design Practice by Wouter Eggink.
• Chinese Users’ Preference for Web Browser Icons by Siu-Tsen Shen, Stephen Prior, Keun-Meau Chen and Te-Hua Fang.
• Preserving Identity in a Global Context Case Study: Architecture and Interior Design by Pisprapai Sarasalin.
• Criteria for New-generation User-centered Design Methods by Frederik W.B. Hoolhorst and Mascha C. van der Voort.
• Public Participation in Design of Health Empowering Information Systems: An Idealistic Fantasy or Democratic Effect? by Anders Barlach.
• Retail Design and the Experience Economy: Where Are We (Going)? by Ann Petermans and Koenraad Van Cleempoel.
• Definitional Components of the UK Sustainable Communities Plan: The Net Effect of a Realignment and Cross-Sectional Representation of the Development and Design by Mark Deakin.
• The Missing Bottom Line by Giuseppe T. Cirella and Longbin Tao.
• Technological Reception of Architecture: Beyond the Digital Representation by Joanna Wlaszyn.
• A Computational Investigation into the Fractal Dimensions of the Architecture of Kazuyo Sejima by Michael J. Ostwald, Josephine Vaughan and Stephan K. Chalup.
• Architectural Design: An Intellectual Culture between Art and Science by Benyamin Schwarz.
• The Collabor 8 Project: Realities within Design-Based Online Cross-Cultural Collaboration by Ian William McArthur.
• Participatory Scenario Generation: Communicating Usability Issues in Product Design through User Involvement in Scenario Generation by Mieke van der Bijl-Brouwer and Mascha C. van der Voort.
• Classification and Use of Design Tools: The Roles of Tools in the Architectural Design Process by Lieve Weytjens, Evelien Verdonck and Griet Verbeeck.
• Graphic Design Niches in Unsustainable Development by Luz del Carmen Vilchis Esquivel.
• The Contemporary Chinese Metropolis: Modernity, Globalisation, and Conceptual Meanings by Ian Morley.
• Consumers’ Emotional Responses to Brands and Branded Products by Armagan Karahanoglu and Bahar Sener.
• Projection before Analysis by Rosan Chow.
• Cultural Differences in Emerging Countries: A New Challenge for Industrial Design by Alvaro Diaz.
• Classical Period of Australian Indigenous Interiors: Shaping of Space and Interiority by Jacqueline Power.
• A Conceptual Framework for a Systematic Mapping of Layout Design Principles by using Yin and Yang Theory by Ji Yong Park.
• Re-Designing the Solomon Four-Group: Can We Improve on this Exemplary Model? by Renier Steyn.
• Street Furniture Design Principles: Unity and Identity by Kin Wai Michael Siu and Pak Hong Wan.
• Gender based Product Design Research: Is there an Indicating difference in Product Design made by Male and Female Design Graduates by M.D.C. Stilma and Olle Vos.
• Sustainability in Steps: Bringing Responsible Practices and Ideas into Existing Course Curriculums by Jamie Runnells.
• Design Practices in the Aegean Sea by Julia Theodoraki.
• Exploring Principles of Grammatical Design in Higher Education by Dean Bruton.
• Rural and Suburban Adaptations for the 21st Century Home: Seven Desires for an Uncertain Future by Christopher Platt.