Abstract: Recent researches show more and more works are focused on design rationale.This paper gives a full review of recent works about design rationale.Firstly,it analyzes some issues of the existing researches,including design rationale capture,design rationale representation and design rationale retrieval.Secondly,this paper gives a comparison of some typical researches and concludes their contributions as well as limitations.Finally,some challenging research topics are proposed as future work efforts.