Design Studies is a leading international academic journal focused on developing understanding of design processes. It studies design activity across all domains of application, including engineering and product design, architectural and urban design, computer artefacts and systems design. It therefore provides an interdisciplinary forum for the analysis, development and discussion of fundamental aspects of design activity, from cognition and methodology to values and philosophy.

Design Studies publishes work that is concerned with the process of designing, and is relevant to a broad audience of researchers, teachers and practitioners. We welcome original, scientific and scholarly research papers reporting studies concerned with the process of designing in all its many fields, or furthering the development and application of new knowledge relating to design process. Papers should be written to be intelligible and pertinent to a wide range of readership across different design domains. To be relevant for this journal, a paper has to offer something that gives new insight into or knowledge about the design process, or assists new development of the processes of designing.

《Design Studies》是一本由Elsevier Ltd出版商出版的專業(yè)工程技術(shù)期刊，該刊創(chuàng)刊于1979年，刊期Bimonthly，該刊已被國(guó)際權(quán)威數(shù)據(jù)庫(kù)SCIE收錄。在中科院最新升級(jí)版分區(qū)表中，該刊分區(qū)信息為大類學(xué)科：工程技術(shù)1區(qū)，小類學(xué)科：工程：綜合 1區(qū)；工程：制造 2區(qū)；在JCR（Journal Citation Reports）分區(qū)等級(jí)為Q1。該刊發(fā)文范圍涵蓋ENGINEERING, MULTIDISCIPLINARY等領(lǐng)域，旨在及時(shí)、準(zhǔn)確、全面地報(bào)道國(guó)內(nèi)外ENGINEERING, MULTIDISCIPLINARY工作者在該領(lǐng)域取得的最新研究成果、工作進(jìn)展及學(xué)術(shù)動(dòng)態(tài)、技術(shù)革新等，促進(jìn)學(xué)術(shù)交流，鼓勵(lì)學(xué)術(shù)創(chuàng)新。2023年影響因子為3.2，平均審稿速度 12周，或約稿 約7.3周。