end of service life. In line with the industry environment, and in providing creative solutions to design problems …, product design students are encouraged to take account of the market, technical, functional, visual, and humanistic aspects of … design as well as exploring the possibility of making their designs sustainable. Consideration of factors including waste …

This paper provides an overview of research at the inception stage of a PhD design research project. It describes an … underpinning to the project and the general context for the pilot study. The pilot study seeks to establish what role design might … emotional responses to a product within a fixed time period; and what general and specific aspects of the design influenced …