Manuscript Types and Eligibility

Jurnal Desain prioritizes original scholarly manuscripts addressing design, visual art, and visual culture. Eligible submissions must present an identifiable research object or body of evidence, an academically defensible methodological or analytical procedure, and a substantive contribution to scholarship.

1. Original Empirical Research Articles

The journal welcomes empirical research conducted through qualitative, quantitative, mixed-methods, experimental, observational, historical, ethnographic, visual, computational, user-based, or other suitable approaches. The manuscript must present original evidence, systematic analysis, and a clear scholarly contribution.

2. Design Studies and Practice-Based Research

Design-oriented research may investigate artefacts, processes, prototypes, interfaces, users, materials, environments, creative practices, or other design phenomena. Design outputs must be accompanied by adequate research procedures, evaluation or analytical evidence, and critical discussion; presentation of a design product alone is insufficient.

3. Conceptual or Theoretical Studies Based on an Original Research Object

Conceptual and theoretical discussion may be considered where the analysis is applied to a clearly defined corpus, case, artefact, practice, or phenomenon and generates an original analytical or interpretive contribution. A purely narrative discussion of previously published literature without original investigation is not eligible.

4. Manuscript Types Not Accepted

Jurnal Desain does not accept stand-alone Systematic Literature Reviews (SLR), Narrative Literature Reviews, Scoping Reviews, Integrative Reviews, bibliometric studies, or other review-based manuscripts whose main evidence and contribution consist solely of summarizing, mapping, categorizing, or synthesizing prior publications without original empirical investigation.

5. Scope and Submission Requirements

Eligibility also depends on fit with the journal's Focus and Scope and compliance with its Author Guidelines, ethical requirements, and official manuscript template. The journal may decline ineligible submissions during Initial Editorial Assessment before external peer review.