Publications

Under review

• Mejía, G. M., Xie, X., Simeone, L. & Tomlin, S. (under review). Teaching and learning strategic design skills: A case study of a graduate studio course with a live project.
• Xie, Y. & Mejía, G. M. (under review). Understanding and Preparing Others for Collaboration in Design: An Interview Study of Professionals in the U.S.

Forthcoming

• Mejía, G. M. (forthcoming). Strategic design futures: Designing for change in complex situations. Design Research Society Conference DRS 2024, Boston, MA.
• Mandhre, R., Mejía, G.M., Jung, K., Zheng, W. & Wu, X. (forthcoming). Approaches to intentional change of expert strategic designers. Design Research Society Conference DRS 2024, Boston, MA.
• Junginger, S., Mejía, G. M., & Simeone L. (forthcoming). Designing Change: Research Scope and Agenda. Design Research Society Conference DRS 2024, Boston, MA.

2023

• Mejía, G. M., Henriksen, D., Xie, Y., Garcia Topete, A., Malina, R. F., & Jung, K. (2023). From researching to making futures: A design mindset for transdisciplinary collaboration. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 48(1) pp. 77-108. https://doi.org/10.1080/03080188.2022.2131086
• Mejía, G. M., Guest, M. A., Zheng, W., Peckham, A., Doebbeling, B., Xie, Y. & You, Q. (2023) Who’s ideating, prototyping, and evaluating? Selective participatory activities in resource-limited design for health projects. Educational Gerontology. https://doi.org/10.1080/03601277.2023.2250214
• Jung, K. & Mejía, G. M. (2023) Are service designers the best positioned to design for sustainability? IASDR 2023, Milan. https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2023.360
• Tsen, K., Mejía, G.M., Foushée, D. & Fehler, M. (2023). Codesign facilitation for workforce satisfaction. IASDR 2023, Milan. https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2023.486

2022

• Mejía, G. M., Fischer, D., Silver, J., Xie, Y., & Fehler, M. (2022). How do professional designers engage with sustainability? A systematic literature review. Journal of Design Research 20(4), pp. 297-317. https://doi.org/10.1504/JDR.2022.132060.
• Escandón, P., & Mejía, G. M. (2022). Decision-making using heuristic evaluation in design for behavior change. Journal of Design Research 20(3), pp. 209-229. https://doi.org/10.1504/JDR.2022.130483
• Mejía, G. M. (2022). Anticipatory justice in design speculation. Anticipation 22. 4th International Conference on Anticipation, Tempe, AZ.
• Xie, Y., Mejía, G. M., & Zheng, W. (2022). An exploratory study of co-design skills in the US job postings. Proceedings IASDR 2021. 9th Congress of the International Association of Societies of Design Research, Hong Kong, China. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-19-4472-7_89

2021

• Mejía, G. M. (2021). Theory-driven or theory-informed? A review of behavioral economics in design. The Design Journal, 24(4), 567–587. https://doi.org/10.1080/14606925.2021.1935089
• Mejía, G. M. (2021). Using nudges as design principles: Mindful guidance for behavior change. Journal of Design Strategies, 10(1), 56–66. https://issuu.com/journalofdesignstrategies/docs/parsons_jds10-final
• Kitch, S., McGregor, J., Mejía, G. M., El-Sayed, S., Spackman, C., & Vitullo, J. (2021). Gendered and Racial Injustices in American Food Systems and Cultures. Humanities, 10(2), 66. https://doi.org/10.3390/h10020066
• Løgager, C., Simeone, L., & Mejía, G. M. (2021). A foresight-oriented service design approach to foster longer-term thinking and sustainable practices. EAD 2021. European Academy of Design Conference EAD 2021. https://www.proceedings.blucher.com.br/article-details/a-foresight-oriented-service-design-approach-to-foster-longer-term-thinking-and-sustainable-practices-36940
• Sosa, R., Mejía, G. M., & Adamson, J. (2021). Fluid worldviews: Designing within the common good. In M. Botta & S. Junginger (Eds.), Design as Common Good (pp. 1016–1028). Swiss Design Network. https://zenodo.org/record/5600464#.YvNnwfFBzao

2020

• Gallego, C., Mejía, G. M., & Calderon, G. (2020). Strategic design: Origins and contributions to intellectual capital in organizations. Journal of Intellectual Capital, 21(6), 873–891. https://doi.org/10.1108/JIC-10-2019-0234
• Xie, Y., Mejía, G. M., Coseo, P., & Cheng, C. (2020). A Participatory Design Case Study in Environmental Design Education. Proceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020 - Participation(s) Otherwise - Volume 2, 87–94. https://doi.org/10.1145/3384772.3385152
• Alwazzan, A., Mejía, G. M., Xie, Y., & Fischer, D. (2020). Incorporating behavioral theory in design ideation for changing sustainability behaviors. In S. Boess, M. Cheung, & R. Cain (Eds.), Synergy—DRS International Conference 2020. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2020.178
• Mejía, G. M., Malina, R. F., Xie, Y., & Garcia Topete, A. (2020). Translating disciplinary practices for trans-sentient collaboration. 26th International Symposium on Electronic Arts, ISEA2020, 283–290. https://isea-archives.org/docs/2020/isea2020_Proceedings.pdf#page=283

2019

• Mejía, G. M., & Chu, S. (2019). Exploring Rhetoric Theory in Persuasive Design: A Mobile Web Application for Obesity Prevention. In V. G. Duffy (Ed.), Digital Human Modeling and Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics and Risk Management. Healthcare Applications. 21st International Conference on Human-computer Interaction, HCII 2019 (pp. 365–379). Springer International Publishing. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-22219-2_28