Design Heuristics Cards for circular economy to support generating ideas

Abstract

The field of design for circular economy lacks comprehensive and systematic design aids to support users to generate ideas quickly and effectively. This study uses ReSOVLE as a framework, incorporates the lifecycle design approaches, and constructs the Circular Economy Design Heuristics Cards (CEDHC) by extracting strategies relevant to innovative product design, service design, and business model innovation into the form of design heuristics to support ideation, and incorporating TRIZ problem solving strategies to facilitate the iteration of original ideas. The CEDHC include design heuristics, textual explanations, cases and TRIZ 40 inventive principles. Two sessions were conducted to illustrate the efficacy of the CEDHC to support idea generation in the field of design for circular economy.

Keywords:

• Circular economy
• design heuristics
• idea generation
• idea iteration
• product design
• service design
• business model innovation

Subject classification codes:

• design research papers

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by the Youth Project of Social Science Foundation of Fujian Province, grant number FJ2022C080.

Notes on contributors

Xin Cao

Xin Cao is a PhD candidate at the Graduate Institute of Design Science, Tatung University, with a focus on innovative design methods, service design and product design.

Yen Hsu

Yen Hsu is a professor and associate dean of the Graduate Institute of Design Science at Tatung University, where his main research interests are design management, industrial design and circular design.

Honglei Lu

Honglei Lu is a PhD candidate at the Graduate Institute of Design Science, Tatung University, with a focus on design management, industrial design and service design.