International Journal of Design now available www.ijdesign.org Dear Colleagues, It is a great pleasure to announce the first issue of the International Journal of Design. It is available on-line at www.ijdesign.org. This on-line version is open access, freely available for anyone, anywhere to download, read, distribute, and use for non-commercial purposes with proper attribution. If you like what you see, you can email the entire issue or any article to a friend. A printed version of the journal will also be available for the cost of printing and distribution. Our vision is to publish high-quality design research, and to disseminate this research to the widest possible audience. We invite you to submit your best work to the International Journal of Design and to encourage your colleagues to do the same. We hope you will enjoy reading the first issue of IJDesign. If you have any suggestions that will help us to improve the journal, please let us hear from you. Sincerely, Lin-Lin Chen Editor-in-Chief, IJDesign International Journal of Design www.ijdesign.org