... Network metrics have provided a medium to derive useful design-related insights from the structure of the graphs, and various layout methods have provided ways of representing the design-related data in an easily comprehensible way (Lim et al., 2016;. For example, network visualizations have been utilized to represent the whole technology space to support innovation and competitive intelligence (Luo et al., , 2018Sarica, Yan, et al., 2020), show the relations between components and subsystems to evalute designs (He and Luo, 2017;Pasqual and De Weck, 2012;Sosa et al., 2007) and inform design decisions (Kim and Kim, 2012;Sosa et al., 2007), discover the patterns of design activities (Alstott et al., 2017;Cash et al., 2014;Cash and Štorga, 2015), reveal the structure of design document repositories to guide retrievals (Fu et al., 2013;Luo et al., 2021), and represent mind maps (Camburn, Arlitt, et al., 2020;Camburn, He, et al., 2020) and concept networks (Chen et al., 2019;Chen and Krishnamurthy, 2020;Liu et al., 2020;Sarica et al., 2019Sarica et al., , 2021Shi et al., 2017;Song, Evans, et al., 2020;Souili et al., 2015) for design ideation uses. On the other hand, a few studies explored other visualization methods such as word-clouds (He, Camburn, Liu, et al., 2019; based on design description texts. ...