Sustainable Thinking by Design Researchers

Fashion Thinking: Fashion Practices and Sustainable Interaction Design

Broadly defined, “fashion” refers to the symbolic, aesthetic, and cultural meanings that objects carry, especially the ways in which people use objects to express their taste, lifestyle, social status and belonging to a community. We don’t ordinarily think of fashion as a positive force for sustainable practices in the design of products and services. One imagines that fashion drives consumptio...

Enabling Sustainable Thinking in Undergraduate Engineering Education*

In this paper we address the need for curricular changes that foster sustainable thinking and review a number of engineering curricular changes at selected universities, drawing comparisons to medical and other fields. For each engineering program, we examined the level at which sustainability concepts and active-learning methods were integrated into its curricula. A majority of the universitie...

Design thinking.

In the past, design has most often occurred fairly far downstream in the development process and has focused on making new products aesthetically attractive or enhancing brand perception through smart, evocative advertising. Today, as innovation's terrain expands to encompass human-centered processes and services as well as products, companies are asking designers to create ideas rather than to...

Design Thinking = Human-Centered Design?

User Operational Design Thinking

It is necessary to accept new users, retain old users, keep users active, promote user consumption, and restore the loss of users, after all websites and products are released online. User operations are almost the core work of the development of each site or product. So what is the core content of user operation? The answer is opening source (to pull new users), throttling (to prevent loss of ...