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ISSN: 1833-1874

Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal is a site of discussion exploring the meaning and purpose of ‘design’, as well as speaking in grounded ways about the task of design and the use of designed artefacts. The resulting conversations weave between the theoretical and the empirical, research and application, market pragmatics and social idealism.

In professional and disciplinary terms, the journal traverses a broad sweep to construct a transdisciplinary dialogue which encompasses the perspectives and practices of: anthropology, architecture, art, artificial intelligence, business, cognitive science, communication studies, computer science, cultural studies, design studies, education, e-learning, engineering, ergonomics, fashion, graphic design, history, information systems, industrial design, industrial engineering, instructional design, interior design, interaction design, interface design, journalism, landscape architecture, law, linguistics and semiotics, management, media and entertainment, psychology, sociology, software engineering, technical communication, telecommunications, urban planning and visual design.

The journal is relevant for academics in the design and applied sciences, professions, social sciences and humanities, research students, design practitioners, industry-based designers, professionals and managers, public administrators and trainers and industry consultants.

Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal is peer-reviewed, supported by rigorous processes of criterion-referenced article ranking and qualitative commentary, ensuring that only intellectual work of the greatest substance and highest significance is published.

The Design Principles and Practices knowledge community publishes into a family of journals. This consists of a series of thematically focused journals, as well as a highlights journal that republishes a selection of articles for the thematic journals. All papers accepted for publication will appear in one of the following thematic journals:

• The International Journal of Design Education
• The International Journal of Design in Society
• The International Journal of Designed Objects
• The International Journal of Visual Design
• The International Journal of Design Management and Professional Practice
• The International Journal of Architectonic, Spatial, and Environmental Design

Each of these journals has the subtitle: ‘A section of Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal’.

The highlights journal consists only of reprints of articles from the thematic journals. It contains top-ranked articles and works by invited contributions, including plenary speakers from the Design Conference. This is not a second publication of an article. As the subtitle of the highlights journal clearly indicates, this journal only consists of reprints.

Authors can request which of the thematic journals they would prefer for the publication of their article. Alternatively, when the author does not opt to make a selection, the Common Ground editorial team will curate each paper into the appropriate thematic journal.

Editors

• Bill Cope, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA.

International Advisory Board

Associate Editors

• Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal, Volume 1 (Download PDF)
• Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal, Volume 2 (Download PDF)
• Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal, Volume 3 (Download PDF)
  
• Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal, Volume 4 (Download PDF)
  
• Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal, Volume 5 (Download PDF)