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inform product redevelopment even after launch, sometimes in quite a radical way
What is user feedback
a framework for creating designs that improve the relations of users with a product and intentionally trigger emotional responses.
What is the Attract/Converse/Transact (ACT) model
setting and policing rules to avoid or limit environmental issues caused by undesirable technologies
What is regulation
It is about the big picture that allows economic activity to rise while reducing resource use and reducing environmental impact.
What is sustainable development
a group of products that have common classification criteria, have many common parts and assemblies, are branded consistently and share aesthetic characteristics.
What is product family
the extent to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals effectively (completely and accurately) and efficiently (fast and with minimum effort) while functioning in a predictable and consistent manner
What is usability?
Increase user engagement, loyalty and satisfaction with a product by incorporating emotion and personality into product design.
Designing for emotion
Demand/supply trends need to be predicted carefully to create a responsive and efficient energy supply.
What is energy security?
The creation of new, modified or updated products aimed mainly at a company’s existing customers
Product development
product, place, price and promotion
What is the Marketing Mix
a design process paying particular attention to the needs of potential users of a product through involvement of users at all stages of the design process.
What is User Centered Design?
is an imagined sequence of events in the daily life of a persona based on assumptions by researchers and designers.
What is Scenario
concerns can be influenced through international treaties and current international energy policies, instruments for change and disincentives, and national systems changing policy when government leadership changes.
What is Macro energy sustainability
Increasing sales to existing customers or finding new customers for an existing product
Market penetration
is a lean production management tool used to analyse current and future processes for the production of a product through to delivery to the consumer.
Value stream mapping
Designers trying to create products that are suitable for users with disabilities and other users. Ensuring that there is a sufficient market for their products and increases their feasibility as an innovation.
Inclusive design
members of a user population used in order to create fictional characters that are typical stakeholders
What is Personae?
Requiring 90% less energy, materials and water than equivalent products in 1990.
What is Efficient?
is a form of self-regulation for a company and centres around the development of goals related to social, economic and environmental factors
What is Corporate social responsibility
a philosophy and commitment to continuous process and product improvement
What is Kaizen
These values can be embodied in products. For example, a product made from biodegradable materials might be seen as embodying the value of environmental responsibility.
What is Ideo-pleasure
users representing the target market for a product perform realistic tasks by interacting with a paper version of the user-product interface manipulated by a person acting as a computer who does not explain how the interface works.
What is Participatory design
refers to disconnecting two trends so that one no longer depends on the other. Through the act of decoupling (using resources more productively and redesigning production systems), it is technically possible to deliver the same or equivalent goods and services with lower environmental impact while maintaining social and equity benefits.
What is Decoupling ?
which focus on the values, culture and characteristics of purchasers in that region along with purchasing power
What is geographical sectors
a system of manufacturing that uses computers to integrate the processing of production, business and manufacturing in order to create more efficient production lines. Integrating computers facilitates sharing of data to create a more flexible and efficient manufacturing system.
What is CIM?