This paper introduces the Use2Use design toolkit—a set of tools that can be used to design for circular consumption. In contrast to other available circular design tools, the toolkit emphasises the importance of applying a user perspective when exploring opportunities for product circularity. It aids designers and other agents to explore user needs, identify consumption-related design challenges, and design products and services that can create enabling preconditions that make it possible, more convenient, and preferable for people to circulate products from use to use. The process to develop the tool is initially presented followed by a description of the toolkit and its five tools. The paper concludes with a discussion regarding how the proposed toolkit compares to other circular design tools and what implications it has for design practice and future research.
Funding details: Chalmers Tekniska Högskola; Funding details: Familjen Kamprads Stiftelse; Funding text 1: The toolkit was developed as part of a research project supported by the Kamprad Family Foundation. The funding body was not involved in the conduct of the research or in the preparation of the article.; Funding text 2: The toolkit presented in this paper has been developed by the authors. This would not have been possible without the valuable contributions of a number of people: Helena Str?mberg and Sara Renstr?m at Chalmers University of Technology; Stina Behrens, Kajsa Davidsson and Maria Bergstr?m at the service design firm Transformator Design (today the business design studio itch); and Daniel Ekfjorden with colleagues at Hultafors Group. The authors would also like to thank the students and company representatives that have taken part in testing the different versions of the tools and provided valuable feedback. The toolkit was developed as part of a research project supported by the Kamprad Family Foundation. The funding body was not involved in the conduct of the research or in the preparation of the article.