The work aims to systematically comb and summarize the Chinese and foreign research status in the field of extended reality design in the context of the metaverse, and analyze the current research status, hot spots and development trends. With the core collection database of Web of Science and CNKI database on the topics of "metaverse" and "design" highly relevant to extended reality design research as research objects, CiteSpace software was used to make a statistical analysis of the literature. The visualization results and literature themes were analyzed and summarized by bibliometric methods from six aspects of publication trend, publication journal and subject distribution, author and institution cooperation, national/regional cooperation, research hot spot and research trend. The number of literature increased significantly and steadily since 2021, indicating that this field was becoming a research hot spot in the academic circle. The research was mainly carried out in computer science, social science, environmental science and other disciplines. The cooperation between Chinese and foreign research authors was loose, and the cooperation between research institutions needed to be strengthened. China led in the number of publication in this field, and the discipline had the highest influence. The research focused on technology application, experience optimization, system architecture and other aspects, reflecting the deep integration of technology and innovation experience. The research trend showed the development path from technical exploration to application practice, from single field to interdisciplinary integration. The research reviews the current research status in the field of extended reality design in the context of the metaverse. Extended reality design in the context of the metaverse is in a rapid development stage. The research not only focuses on technological development, but also pays more attention to the combination of technology and application, as well as in-depth interdisciplinary cooperation. The research provides more references and inspirations for the design discipline to empower the metaverse field.