What is Sustainable Design?
Sustainable design is a technique of designing any physical or digital product keeping in mind its long-term sustainability. Sustainable design refers to the process of coming up with long-term solutions for the core design issues or for designing new features for the product while ensuring that the product produces as little harm to the environment as possible and is as environmentally friendly as it can be.
Sustainable design is taking the design industry by storm with more and more people as well as designers prioritizing the environment over other factors. In the process of sustainable design, the focus is on designing recyclable, reusable, and biodegradable components for the product. This also includes designing the creating/manufacturing/packaging process which reduces the waste as much as possible and tries to integrate that waste into the product itself.
The Three Principles of Sustainable Design are:
- Social Sustainability
- Economic Sustainability
- Environmental Sustainability
What is Sustainable Design?
In the day and age of environmental awareness, customers have become more environmentally conscious and a survey shows the design industry is also moving this way. Product designers are now focusing more on sustainable design, most importantly since the market is moving towards sustainable and environment-friendly products, there is a growing demand for designers with good knowledge of sustainable design for designing these physical and digital designs. In this article, we will discuss what sustainable design is and why you as a designer be aware of it.