This book emphasizes several important phases of a product's lifecycle and its relationship to sustainable development.
Manufacturing: the resource of the product, type, extraction, specification, and its use of original materials. These choices are all affecting environment silently.
Transporting: how the products made it way to markets.
Consumption and Energy Usage: the production of products.
Recycling: The realization of used materials.
Service: device, storage, servers, and other physical support.
Those phases seemed to be long and tedious, but they are the essentials thing need to take into account while designing, especially a digital product. Software companies usually don't consider these phases during the production process. Those who make thoughtful decisions to help build a sustainable market were considered to be the leading brands. For example, Apple has adjusted their design to reduce the use of materials, increase the percentage of recycling, and reduce the consumption of energy.
Kramer, K.-L. (2012). User experience in the age of sustainability: A practitioner's blueprint.
Morgan Kaufmann.
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