Category: product-design
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How Product Design Shapes the Right to Repair and Sustainability
Product design determines whether a device can be repaired, upgraded, and kept in use long enough to avoid unnecessary waste. This article explains the design choices that make repair easier or harder and why they matter for sustainability across the product life cycle.
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Sustainable AI Product Design and When Not to Use Artificial Intelligence
This article explains how to decide whether AI belongs in a product at all, then shows how to design it more sustainably when it does. You will learn practical criteria for avoiding unnecessary AI, choosing simpler alternatives, and reducing waste in data, compute, and product workflows.
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Build sustainability dashboards users actually understand
This article teaches product and sustainability teams how to design dashboards that communicate climate and resource data clearly, support decisions, and preserve trust. You will get practical rules for metric selection, visual encoding, context, data provenance, and testing so dashboards drive action instead of confusion.
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Life Cycle Assessment LCA Basics for Understanding Product Emissions End to End
This article explains the core concepts and steps of life cycle assessment so readers can interpret product emission results, choose appropriate system boundaries and data, and use LCA findings to guide low carbon design and procurement decisions.
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Low-Emission Digital Product Case Study
A practical, step-by-step examination of how a product team applied eco-centered design choices to cut energy use and emissions across a web service. This case study highlights design decisions, technical trade-offs, measurement tactics, and governance practices that other teams can adapt to make digital products materially greener.
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Applying Circular Economy Principles to Cut Digital and Physical Waste
A practical guide showing how circular thinking can reduce both electronic waste and digital clutter. Learn actionable design, operations, and procurement steps that product teams, IT managers, and supply chains can use to keep resources in use longer and shrink environmental impact.
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Eco Design Principles for LowEmission Digital Products
A practical guide for designers, developers, and product managers that explains how to reduce the climate impact of digital services through thoughtful design, efficient architecture, and measurable targets. Learn actionable strategies that cut energy use, shrink data transfer, and improve user experience without guessing workarounds.
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Streaming, Gaming and Music: A Case Study on Digital Entertainment’s Carbon Impact
A practical case study that traces how streaming video, music services and gaming generate greenhouse gas emissions across the digital supply chain, identifies the main emission drivers, and outlines realistic levers companies and consumers can use to shrink their environmental footprint without sacrificing user experience.