Modularity is a strategy recognized by the academia and the industry, and modular
architecture is argued to play an important role in the development of sustainable products …

Electronic waste, or e-waste, is the fastest growing category of waste in developed countries
and a threat to the environment and human health. The extension of electronic products life …

This book discusses the most significant ways in which design has been applied to
sustainability challenges using an evolutionary perspective. It puts forward an innovation …

In a linear economy, a product is manufactured and sold to a customer. Then, little concern
is given to what the user actually does with it when they have it. However, in a circular …

Throwing products away before they fail or are broken is at the heart of consumer behaviour
in developed economies such as the UK. Products are often discarded for reasons of …

How can we develop products that consumers want to use for longer? The lifetime of
electrical products is an ongoing concern in discussions about the circular economy. It is an …

In this paper we report on an exploration of how to apply the theory of Slow Design to mass
produced products to establish more mindful usage of products; the intention behind this is …

The paper provides a circular economy framework from a product design perspective with
tools to aid product designers in applying circular product design in practice. Design …

Lately, most studies on sustainable design from the perspective of emotional durability focus
on product design, particularly on exploring how do product functions direct consumers' …

The mental state in which an individual claims an object as theirs is called psychological
ownership. Psychological ownership is associated with motives, routes, affordances, and …