Design Strategies
The following strategies can be used in the design and development of products to help improve their sustainability. They have been selected as strategies that can usually be relied upon to provide a beneficial effect, and can therefore help designers with little or no experience of sustainable design to design more sustainable products.
However, every product is different and has different requirements, so strategies should be considered and selected with care to ensure that they have the desired effect.
The table below lists the strategies with an indication of which aspects of sustainability they might help to address, and link through to more detailed explanations. The table can also be used as a sustainable design checklist in the design process.
