Xu, Ping; Zhang, Yong
The way users interact with products may strongly influence the
environmental sustainability. It is significative to outline strategies
from the perspectives of users. First, some fashional userbased design
concepts were reviewd, and their shortcomings and disadvantages were
futher analysed in today environmental sustainability context. Then
taking into account of users behavior, emotion and concept impacts
enacted throughout the use phase of products, a series of strategies
were outlined, such as user-product relationship empathic design,
servicebased local common products design, edification design and
participatory product redesign. These strategies will be helpful to
prolong product lifecycle through establishing intimate emotion
connection, reduce resource consumption through lowering the total
amount of personal products, deeply change users daily behavior and
enhance users environmental consciousness through educational function
of product semiotic, and make users have a substantial role in product
redesign to strengthen the reuse of the abandoned parts through open
design and facilitating disassembly.
ICEEP 2012, International Conference on Energy and Environmental Protection
