{"id":748,"date":"2025-05-20T21:15:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T21:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/?p=748"},"modified":"2025-08-15T09:50:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T09:50:31","slug":"issue-59-1-making-design-research-visible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/issue-59-1-making-design-research-visible\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Design Research Visible"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sitecontainer\">\n<div class=\"pagecontainer\">\n<article class=\"vj-article\">\n<div class=\"articlesidebar\">\n<h5>Issue 59.1<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/issue-59-1-in-with-the-new\">Editorial \u2014 In With the New!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/issue-59-1-making-design-research-visible\">Making Design Research Visible<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/issue-59-1-a-shifting-practice-paradigm-meets-a-persistent-curriculum-paradigm\">A Shifting Practice Paradigm Meets a Persistent Curriculum Paradigm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/issue-59-1-digital-type-challenges\">Digital Type Challenges<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/issue-59-1-towards-interdisciplinary-juggling-similarities-and-differences\">Towards Interdisiplinary: Juggling Similarities and Differences<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/issue-59-1-nineteen-questions-to-evaluate-typographic-research-chaff-and-wheat\">Nineteen Questions to Evaluate Typographic Practice: Chaff and Wheat<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/issue-59-1-visible-language-evolves\">Visible Language Evolves<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/Issue-59-1\/Visible-Language-59-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Download Issue 59.1 \u27a4<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"articlecontent\">\n<h1>Making Design Research Visible<\/h1>\n<h3>Nigel Cross<\/h3>\n<h4>School of Engineering and Innovation, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK  (nigel.cross[at]open.ac.uk)<\/h4>\n<div class=\"abstractbox\">\n<p><span class=\"smallblueheading\">Abstract:<\/span> 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 \u2014 research has to be made visible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"keywordsbox\">\n<p><span class=\"smallblueheading\">Keywords:<\/span> design discipline; design research<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"viewarticlebtn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/Issue-59-1\/making-design-research-visible.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Download PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"articlepdfviewer\">\n<object data=\"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/Issue-59-1\/making-design-research-visible.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/Issue-59-1\/making-design-research-visible.pdf\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" style=\"border: none;\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/object>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"authorbox\">\n<p><span class=\"smallblueheading\">Author<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nigel Cross<\/strong> 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 <em>Analysing Design Activity, Designerly Ways of Knowing<\/em>, and <em>Design Thinking: Understanding How Designers Think and Work<\/em>. He was a founding editor of the journal <em>Design Studies<\/em> in 1979 and its editor-in-chief from 1984 to 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"viewarticlebtn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/Issue-59-1\/making-design-research-visible.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Download PDF<\/a><br \/>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"articlecitebox\">\n<div>\n<p class=\"blueurllink\">DOI being generated<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cite this article:<\/strong><br \/>Cross, N. (2025). Making design research visible. <em>Visible Language<\/em>, 59(1), 1\u20134. https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/issue-59-1-making-design-research-visible<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>First published online April 27, 2025. \u00a9 2025 Visible Language \u2014 this article is open access, published under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.<\/p>\n<p><pre>https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal<\/pre>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"vlconsortiumheading\"><strong>Visible Language Consortium:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>University of Leeds (UK)<br \/>University of Cincinnati (USA)<br \/>North Carolina State University (USA)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issue 59.1 Editorial \u2014 In With the New! Making Design Research Visible A Shifting Practice Paradigm Meets a Persistent Curriculum Paradigm Digital Type Challenges Towards Interdisiplinary: Juggling Similarities and Differences Nineteen Questions to Evaluate Typographic Practice: Chaff and Wheat Visible Language Evolves Download Issue 59.1 \u27a4 Making Design Research Visible Nigel Cross School of Engineering &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/issue-59-1-making-design-research-visible\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Making Design Research Visible&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invited-article","category-issue-59-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1163,"href":"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions\/1163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}