Improving environmental design using TRIZ inventive principles

Abstract

This paper describes design principles that were extracted from the profiles of products redesigned to be more environmentally benign. These extracted principles will be used to support the work of creating a Design for Environment (DfE) methodology called ENVRIZ that provides product designers with a procedure for creating more environmentally benign products and overcoming environmental contradictions. The framework for ENVRIZ exists in the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ). ENVRIZ will provide designers with a method for overcoming conflicts between improving environmental objectives and increasing product usefulness.