| 01 | Formalism | 48.3 |
| 02 | Postmodernism | 40.1 |
| 03 | Gestalt | 37.3 |
| 04 | User-Centered Design | 32.6 |
| 05 | Minimalism | 29.8 |
| 06 | Form Follows Function (Bauhaus and Modernist Design) | 27.0 |
| 07 | Kant's Theory of Pure Beauty | 25.0 |
| 08 | Representational theory (mimesis) | 25.0 |
| 09 | Semiotics | 24.9 |
| 10 | Modernism | 23.1 |
| 11 | functionalism | 20.5 |
| 12 | Bauhaus Principles | 20.3 |
| 13 | Clive Bell's "Aesthetic Hypothesis" | 19.2 |
| 14 | Expressive theory | 17.8 |
| 15 | Clement Greenberg's Formalism | 16.9 |
| 16 | Deconstruction | 15.8 |
| 17 | Hegel's Comprehensive Philosophy of Art | 15.6 |
| 18 | The Bauhaus | 15.4 |
| 19 | aesthetic/functional theories | 15.1 |
| 20 | Pragmatic theories | 14.8 |
| 21 | R.G. Collingwood | 14.7 |
| 22 | Critical Theory | 14.7 |
| 23 | Ecological / Sustainable Design Theory | 14.4 |
| 24 | Institutional Theory | 14.3 |
| 25 | Marxist theorists | 14.1 |
| 26 | historical theories | 13.8 |
| 27 | Leo Tolstoy | 13.5 |
| 28 | Arts and Crafts Movement | 12.5 |
| 29 | Anti-Essentialist or Cluster Theories | 7.9 |
| 30 | Marxism | 7.7 |