| Design als Produktsprache D Steffen Der ‘Offenbacher Ansatz’in Theorie und Praxis. Frankfurt am Main: Verlag form, 2000 | 156 | 2000 |
| Welche Dinge braucht der Mensch? Hintergründe, Folgen und Perspektiven der heutigen Alltagskultur. DE Steffen | 35* | 1995 |
| Souvenirs–local messages. An exploration from the design perspective FK Nyffenegger, D Steffen Design and semantics of form and movement, 135, 2010 | 24 | 2010 |
| Categorizing product meaning: an investigation into the product language of clothing and fashion D Steffen Design and semantics of form and movement 73, 2009 | 22 | 2009 |
| Design semantics of innovation: Product language as a reflection on technical innovation and sociocultural change D Steffen Design Semiotics in Use Conference, 2007 | 22 | 2007 |
| Design semantics of innovation D Steffen Product language as a reflection on technical innovation and socio-cultural …, 2010 | 20 | 2010 |
| Smart Semantics D Steffen, AW Françoise Adler & Marin Product Semantics of Smart Clothes, IASDR, Seoul, Korean Society of Design …, 2009 | 18 | 2009 |
| Technofactory versus Mini-Plants: Potentials for a decentralized sustainable furniture production. D Steffen, J Gros MCPC, 60:1-60:13, 2003 | 17 | 2003 |
| Meaning and narration in product design D Steffen DPPI'09 Proceedings, 1-9, 2009 | 15 | 2009 |
| Design als Produktsprache: Der" Offenbacher Ansatz D Steffen Theorie und Praxis, Verlag Form GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, 2000 | 12 | 2000 |
| Zur theorie der produktsrache [On a theory of product language] D Steffen form diskurs 3 (2), 16-27, 1997 | 10 | 1997 |
| New experimentalism in design research: Characteristics and interferences of experiments in science, the arts, and in design research D Steffen Artifact: Journal of Design Practice 3 (2), 1.1-1.16, 2014 | 9 | 2014 |
| Souvenirs–local messages FK Nyffenegger, D Steffen An exploration from the design, 2010 | 9 | 2010 |
| Zur Theorie der Produktsprache D Steffen Perspektiven der hermeneutischen Interpretation von Designobjekten. in …, 2000 | 9 | 2000 |
| On a Theory of Product Language, Perspectives on the hermeneutic interpretation of design objects D Steffen formdiskurs, Journal of Design and Design Theory, 1997 | 9 | 1997 |
| Bamboo: A holistic approach to a renewable fibre for textile design D Steffen, AW Marin, IR Müggler 10th European Academy of Design Conference-Crafting the Future, 1-14, 2013 | 8 | 2013 |
| C_Moebel: digitale Machart und gestalterische Eigenart D Steffen, J Gros Anabas-Verlag, 2003 | 8 | 2003 |
| Praxisintegrierende Designforschung und Theoriebildung D Steffen Analysen und Fallstudien zur produktiven Vermittlung zwischen Theorie und …, 2011 | 7 | 2011 |
| Praxisintegrierende Designforschung und Theoriebildung-Analysen und Fallstudien zur produktiven Vermittlung zwischen Theorie und Praxis D Steffen Wuppertal, Univ., Diss., 2012, 2011 | 7 | 2011 |
| Experiments in design and in research D Steffen | 6 | 2012 |
