scholarly journals Integrating Sustainable Development and Design-Thinking-Based Product Design

2019 ◽  
pp. 245-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachael K. Gould ◽  
Cecilia Bratt ◽  
Patricia Lagun Mesquita ◽  
Göran I. Broman
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Design Thinking

scholarly journals Anticipatory Non-Green-Phenomena Determination for Designing Eco-Design Products

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 621
Author(s):  
Hsin Rau ◽  
Mary Deanne M. Lagapa ◽  
Po-Hsun Chen
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Determination Method ◽  
Washing Machine ◽  
Product Failure ◽  
Design Concepts ◽  
The World ◽  
World Business Council

The number of consumers with green awareness have grown these days and as a result they have turned to purchase eco-friendly products. For this reason, this study aims to propose a method for eco-design based on the anticipatory failure determination method to develop eco-design products. By using eco-design concepts adopted from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, the process will limit the failures and issues related to environmental impact in product design. The proposed method for eco-design product in this study follows the following procedure. First, we analyze product failure. Second, we propose the determination of the non-green phenomenon of the failure. Thirdly, we integrate the intensified non-green phenomenon to generate non-green hypotheses and fourthly, we eliminate each non-green phenomenon hypothesis by introducing the contradiction matrix of TRIZ for obtaining solutions. Finally, we assess alternative eco-design solutions by evaluation. To verify the practicality of the new procedure, a washing machine is used as an example for illustration.

scholarly journals Optimal Pricing and Green Product Design Strategies in a Sustainable Supply Chain Considering Government Subsidy and Different Channel Power Structures

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 12446
Author(s):  
Kelei Xue ◽  
Guohua Sun ◽  
Yuyan Wang ◽  
Shuiye Niu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Green Product ◽  
Government Subsidy ◽  
Market Demand ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
The Government ◽  
Green Product Design

Green product design is a vital measure to support sustainable development in a circular economy era. This paper studies the multi-product pricing and green product design strategies under different supply chain structures and government subsidy strategies. Considering different channel leadership, we establish the centralized (C), manufacturer-led (MS), and retailer-led (RS) supply chain models, respectively. By applying a game-theoretical approach, corresponding equilibrium pricing, green product design, and government subsidy decisions under different supply chain structures are obtained. Through comparison and numerical analysis, we find that: (1) the different subsidy strategies of the government have an important impact on green product development. When the government provides a uniform subsidy strategy, a RS supply chain can bring greener product, more market demands, more profit, and more social welfare; (2) when the government provides a differentiated subsidy strategy, MS and RS supply chain structures can bring greener product and more market demand than the centralized supply chain. They can also bring the same social welfare and the same product to the green design level. However, the MS supply chain structure can bring more profit for the firm; (3) the consumers’ green awareness positively impacts the design and development of green product. Therefore, it is beneficial for the firm to adopt reasonable measures to boost the environmental awareness of consumers in order to realize the sustainable development of our society.

scholarly journals Design Thinking for Sustainable Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 1363-1368
Author(s):  
Mara Zeltina
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Science ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Project Work ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Undergraduate Study ◽  
Sustainable Products ◽  
Sustainability Challenges

The complexity of environmental and sustainability challenges has created an ongoing need for innovative and integrated approaches to address them. Design disciplines have a long history. The method “design thinking”, originally applied in architecture, engineering and business, has led to new and creative problem solving, thus creating much potential for use in sustainable development planning. While principles of good design are well established, there has been limited integration of design thinking with environmental science, sustainable development planning and education. This research was focused on how a sustainability approach can be merged with design thinking to develop socially responsible and environmentally sustainable products and services. The case study has been carried out in the master’s study course Sustainable Development Planning. Some of basic principles and stages of design thinking, such as empathy, creativity, collaboration, responsibility and interdisciplinary approach have been tested by using students project work evaluation regarding certain criteria and survey after the study course. The first results of approbated design thinking principles and methods, significant advantages and disadvantages and the perspective of using this method have been analysed and discussed. As the result from this study proposals for the improvement of the content of this study course and related study courses (a study course on sustainable development issues is compulsory in all undergraduate study programs in Latvia) and for the specification of test tasks have been developed, considering also future needs to provide the study course remotely.

scholarly journals Design Thinking for Computer-Aided Co-Design in Architecture and Urban Design

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuva Chowdhury
Keyword(s):  
System Design ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Communication Media ◽  
Design Framework ◽  
Design Communication ◽  
Design Task ◽  
Virtual Tools ◽  
Computer Aided

Bringing the designer’s concept to the non-design expert’s communicative level requires a significant understanding of the communication media. Primarily the design communication depends on the type of the tools used. Virtual tools with their pre-set operability limit the designer’s ways of interaction with the artefacts. This article proposes a framework for designers to interact with non-design experts through an enhanced communicative media. The design framework indicates steps of design thinking to develop the interface by understanding both the virtual artefacts’ perceptual affordance to the users and the design task. The paper discusses about projects tested in three different scenarios, urban design, architecture, and product design. It concludes with the arguments on designers’ role as authors of the system design.

scholarly journals UNSDGs and future quality management - Social policy for developing sustainable development mindset

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shirley Mo-ching Yeung
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Quality Management ◽  
Mobile Communications ◽  
Data Protection ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
System Thinking ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Brand Building ◽  
Consumer Data

The purpose of this paper is to review different ways of promoting a sustainable development (SD) mindset to engage employees and management to explore, to explain, to elaborate and to evaluate to become future sustainability leaders. After reviewing literature on sustainable development mindsets, sustainable development goals (SDGs), corporate social responsibility (CSR) and analysis of social dimension policy of 10 China-based listed companies (2006 to 2017) in Bloomberg database with members in UN Global Compact (2004 to 2017), it has been found that employee CSR training policy and consumer data protection policy are not common in selected organizations, except two communications related organizations. And, policies on equal opportunities, health & safety, and human rights are mostly in place. Among 10 selected organizations, Petro China and China Mobile Communications are found with these three policies in place in past 11 years (2007 to 2017). It is suggested that individual employee attributes, knowing and being in relation to social policy, need to be strengthened; perception of tasks, implementing CSR and consumer policies with inspirations on sustainability, need to be maintained in the organizational core activities; and value creation, realising the importance of consumer data protection with design thinking and system thinking in product/ service innovations, need to be enhanced for sustainable development. The findings provide insights for management in developing sustainable development mindset for employees and brand-building for organizations. The ultimate output of the paper is a model for promoting a Sustainable Development Mindset with employee CSR policy/consumer data protection relayed social policy for advancing quality management (QM). Therefore, academics, industry practitioners, NGOs and policy makers shall consider these findings when exploring the applications of UNSDGs related tools to advance quality outputs with brand-building effect in an innovative way.

Introduction to the Interactive Features of Product Design

2014 ◽  
Vol 889-890 ◽  
pp. 1489-1492
Author(s):  
Wei Yu Jin ◽  
Li Li Liu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Product Design ◽  
The Future ◽  
Interactive Product ◽  
Train Of Thought ◽  
Form Of Expression

This article is mainly aimed at the characteristics of an interactive product design from several aspects of induction and summary for the interactive product design providing a new train of thought and form of expression, which is to rise to the behavior of the interactive product design to understand the level of culture, further to explore the harmonious and sustainable development between people and people, people and products, people and the environment, which provides the direction for the development of interactive product design in the future .

A Form Generation System Based on Design Thinking Patterns

2011 ◽  
Vol 201-203 ◽  
pp. 1147-1150
Author(s):  
Teng Wen Chang ◽  
Sei Wo Winger Tseng
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Experimental System ◽  
Design System ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Generation System ◽  
Practical Situation ◽  
Form Generation

Generative design system is a complex system that often focus on the technical and complex details thus away from building a system from the product designer’s thinking patterns. In addition, by focusing on the mechanism, the system is hard to construct and difficult to use for practical situation. Horizontal/vertical design thinking patterns are often used in product design practice, thus how designers make decision affect the generation reasoning. With the cognitive design researches on design thinking patterns, two research stages (experiment and implementation) are conducted and policy/generation rules are discovered during the experiment with 30 5-year design experts as focus group. An experimental system called thinking pattern-based generation system, a.l.a. ThinkGen is developed for testing the hypothesis.

scholarly journals Preparing the way for mainstream sustainable product design

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicky Lofthouse
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Sustainable Design ◽  
Educational Setting ◽  
Actual Situation ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Sustainable Product Design ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Sustainable Product ◽  
Design Students

This paper proposes that there is a need to prepare undergraduate design students to be responsible practitioners when they enter the workplace. The multi-faceted approach adopted by the Design School at Loughborough University to achieve this is presented. The paper outlines and reflects on the differences between the idealistic environment provided within an educational setting and the actual situation in the design industry, where there is little evidence of mainstream sustainable design practice. The paper concludes that it is valuable to provide students with a range of skills that support sustainable design thinking, even if they are not currently required by the design industry because doing so turns the students into informed individuals with the potential to lead the next generation of design practitioners.

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