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Realizing Accessible and Environmentally Sustainable Medical Devices in Low-Resource Healthcare Settings in Sub-Saharan Africa: Personal Narrative of the Designer’s Roles and Competencies

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She Ji-The Journal of Design Economics and Innovation Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.sheji.2025.01.005

Karlheinz Tondo Samenjo

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Isotype in Mexico: The Untold Story

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She Ji-The Journal of Design Economics and Innovation Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.sheji.2025.01.001

María del Mar Navarro

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Shaping Entrepreneurial Design Identity in Design Education

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She Ji-The Journal of Design Economics and Innovation Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.sheji.2025.01.003

Beate Cesinger , Sandra Dittenberger

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The Cross-pollination Approach: Conditions for Incubating and Cascading Collaborative Civic Design Initiatives

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She Ji-The Journal of Design Economics and Innovation Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.sheji.2025.01.004

Katerina Alexiou , Vera Hale , Sophia de Sousa , Theodore Zamenopoulos

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Contributors

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She Ji-The Journal of Design Economics and Innovation Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/S2405-8726(25)00011-5

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Wicked Problems: Flexible Characterizations and Visual Representations

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She Ji-The Journal of Design Economics and Innovation Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.sheji.2025.01.002

Nathan Crilly

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Contributors and Acknowledgment to Referees 2024

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She Ji-The Journal of Design Economics and Innovation Pub Date : 2024-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/S2405-8726(24)00111-4

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The Future End of Design Work: A Critical Overview of Managerialism, Generative AI, and the Nature of Knowledge Work, and Why Craft Remains Relevant

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She Ji-The Journal of Design Economics and Innovation Pub Date : 2024-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.sheji.2024.11.002

Rodrigo Hernández-Ramírez , João Batalheiro Ferreira

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Dealing with Wicked Problems: Normative Paradigms for Design Thinking

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She Ji-The Journal of Design Economics and Innovation Pub Date : 2024-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.sheji.2024.11.003

Nynke van Uffelen, Pieter Vermaas, Udo Pesch

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“We Cultivate Children’s Skillsets”: Figurations of the User’s Body in Design for Play

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She Ji-The Journal of Design Economics and Innovation Pub Date : 2024-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.sheji.2024.11.005

Ida Kathrine Hammeleff Jørgensen

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