Divya Chaurasia

Industrial Designer and UX Lead, Spitfire Industry Divya is an award-winning industrial designer and UX Lead at Spitfire Industry. She has over 4 years of experience in consumer product design, with expertise in user-centered, sustainable design practices.

Activities for Divya

Speaker | ID Technique Deep Dive | 2022

Practical Sustainability

This session is about incorporating sustainable practices into the design process. Designers play a crucial role in determining a product’s environmental impact. The design stage is an opportunity to make careful decisions that affect a product’s entire lifecycle. By making some small and easy changes and following a set of guidelines, designers can substantially reduce a product’s carbon footprint.

Designers will learn about incorporating the sustainability principles at different stages of the product life cycle, conducting sustainability research, and designing the product ecosystem, including design for shipping, packaging, and end-of-life.

In this session, you will learn:

  • How to incorporate sustainability principles at different stages of the product life cycle
  • How to design the product ecosystem: design for shipping, packaging, and end-of-life
  • The green-washing trap and how to avoid it
  • Sustainability vs. manufacturing, cost and material restrictions
  • How to conduct a preliminary LCA (life-cycle assessment)
  • Carbon neutrality at scale