Designing ultra-personalized product service systems

Designing ‘Sustainable’ Product/Service Systems

Ecodesign is examined critically starting from an expanded definition of sustainability. Traditional ecodesign objectives arise from the naturalistic dimension of sustainability, but often fail to account for absolute limits of the global ecosystem. A second, generally overlooked dimension is humanistic, directed at the underlying human drive to satisfy manifold domains of flourishing. Achievin...

Designing Product/Service Systems: A Methodological Exploration

Service Design and Product-Service Systems

Product designers have been the main design competence to be employed in product oriented businesses. When it comes to the design of Product-Service Systems, employing product design competences would be a conservative approach. Design theorist Buchanan identifies design orders spanning from graphic, over product and interaction, to systemic design, explaining important differences in perspctiv...

Constraint - based personalized configuring of product and service bundles

The configuring of product bundles such as tourism packages, financial services or compatible skin care products is a synthesis task that requires the support of a knowledgeable information system. We propose a personalized constraint-based configuration approach that is capable of solving such tasks in e-commerce environments. Here, a knowledge-based configurator is hybridized with collaborati...

Eco-designing Product Service Systems by degrading functions while maintaining user satisfaction