Demonstrate understanding of sustainability in design
This standard asks you to show you understand how thinking about a product's whole life cycle — from making it to throwing it away — can guide smart design choices. You need to explain how looking at what happens to a product over time can help you decide what to change in your design, and how this connects to innovation and being kind to the planet and society.
You explain how thinking about a product's whole lifecycle shapes your design decisions and show the link between lifecycle thinking, innovation, and sustainability.
You explain how a detailed lifecycle analysis identifies specific problems, describe how innovation was actually applied to solve those problems, and show the connection between your analysis and the final sustainable design.
You discuss the real competing priorities and compromises you had to make — explaining that you couldn't solve everything at once, and show how you weighed these trade-offs in developing your sustainable product.
Standards typically taken alongside or after this one. Same subject, grouped by level.