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Contemporary issues
This chapter explores and explains some of the more significant issues—green, ethical, universal, and emotional—that surround modern product design practice. It provides valuable tips on how to ensure a product’s impact on the environment is minimized and identifies methodologies that can help lead to successful, universal designed products. Guidelines are also given to help you act in a professional and ethical way as a product designer.
Green issues
This section examines the issue of “green” or “sustainable” design and discusses the impact of the emergence of environmentalism on product design and manufacture, from pioneers such as Vance Packard and Victor Papanek to the sustainable designs of today. It outlines ...
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