Peer review is an essential part in the publication process, ensuring that Designs maintains high quality standards for its published papers. In 2017, a total of 12 papers were published in the journal. Thanks to the cooperation of our reviewers, the median time to first decision was 16.5 days and the median time to publication was 33.5 days. The editors would like to express their sincere gratitude to the following reviewers for their time and dedication in 2017:
| Abaza, Osama A. | Li, Liang |
| Ahn, Hyung Keun | Loprencipe, Giuseppe |
| Alander, Jarmo | Mauricio, Joan |
| Ali Alheeti, Khattab M. | Mavromatis, Stergios |
| Andersen, Jens Christian | Miska, Marc |
| Arteconi, Alessia | Muhammad-Sukki, Firdaus |
| Behnood, Ali | Omer, Siddig Adam |
| Bonvoisin, Jérémy | Padilla-Marcos, Miguel Ángel |
| Cades, David M. | Papadimitriou, Christina N. |
| Chadli, Mohammed | Peinl, René |
| Chalioris, Constantin | Petruska, Andrew |
| Chaves Ávila, José Pablo | Pinna, Francesco |
| Chen, Yan | Qiu, Jianbin |
| Cheng, Chiang-ho | Rakhshan, Ali |
| Cheng, Jie | Shankar, Venky |
| Cheung, Angus K.F. | Shi, Peng |
| Cieslak, Jérôme | Shirazi, Mohammad Shokrolah |
| Concilio, Antonio | Simic, Milan |
| Cornaro, Cristina | Strasser, Thomas |
| Cucchiella, Federica | Su, Jinya |
| Domenichini, Lorenzo | Sysoev, Victor |
| Dunai, Larisa | Tsai, Shun-Hung |
| Ferrante, Chiara | Várhelyi, András |
| Fonollosa, Jordi | Vastola, Guglielmo |
| Fox, Stephen | Velez, Gorka |
| Gao, Fei | Viveiros, Carla |
| Giuffrè, Tullio | Wiberg, Mikael |
| Giungato, Pasquale | Wilcox, Rand R. |
| He, Yuping | Witczak, Marcin |
| Ioannidis, Georgios | Yannis, George |
| Jimenez, Felipe | Yuan, Junqi |
| Kikkert, Cornelis | Yun, Myung Hwan |
| Kwon, Oh-Kyong | Zhang, Hui |
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