Exploring design patterns for sustainable behaviour
Exploring design patterns for sustainable behaviour
Products and services explicitly intended to influence users' behaviour are increasingly being proposed to reduce environmental impact and for other areas of social benefit. Designing such interventions often involves adopting and adapting principles from other contexts where behaviour change has been studied. The 'design pattern' form, used in software engineering and HCI, and originally developed in architecture, offers benefits for this transposition process.
This article introduces the Design with Intent toolkit, an idea generation method using a design pattern form to help designers address sustainable behaviour problems. The article also reports on exploratory workshops in which participants used the toolkit to generate concepts for redesigning everyday products – kettles, curtains, printers and bathroom sinks/taps – to reduce the environmental impact of use. The concepts are discussed, along with observations of how the toolkit was used by participants, suggesting usability improvements to incorporate in future versions.
design methods, design tools, ecodesign, idea generation, user behaviour
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Lockton, Dan
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Harrison, David
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Stanton, Neville A.
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1 December 2013
Lockton, Dan
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Harrison, David
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Stanton, Neville A.
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Lockton, Dan, Harrison, David and Stanton, Neville A.
(2013)
Exploring design patterns for sustainable behaviour.
The Design Journal, 16 (4), .
(doi:10.2752/175630613X13746645186124).
Abstract
Products and services explicitly intended to influence users' behaviour are increasingly being proposed to reduce environmental impact and for other areas of social benefit. Designing such interventions often involves adopting and adapting principles from other contexts where behaviour change has been studied. The 'design pattern' form, used in software engineering and HCI, and originally developed in architecture, offers benefits for this transposition process.
This article introduces the Design with Intent toolkit, an idea generation method using a design pattern form to help designers address sustainable behaviour problems. The article also reports on exploratory workshops in which participants used the toolkit to generate concepts for redesigning everyday products – kettles, curtains, printers and bathroom sinks/taps – to reduce the environmental impact of use. The concepts are discussed, along with observations of how the toolkit was used by participants, suggesting usability improvements to incorporate in future versions.
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Published date: 1 December 2013
Keywords:
design methods, design tools, ecodesign, idea generation, user behaviour
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Civil Maritime & Env. Eng & Sci Unit
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Local EPrints ID: 364615
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/364615
ISSN: 1460-6925
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