72 free UX design patterns for the circular economy
/ German Ecodesign Award 2023 / Winner “Service”
/ German Designers Club 2023 / Award
/ What Design Can Do “Make it Circular” 2023 / Finalist
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Maintenance Self Service Pattern
Use this pattern to assist your customers in maintaining their products themself.
Guided Repair Pattern
Use this pattern to support your customers in repairing their products with realtime guidance by one of your experts.
Upgrade Pattern
Use this pattern to offer your customers upgrades that extend the usage and lifetime of their products.
Material Banking Pattern
Material Banking already happens in utility industries and will come to consumers too: Customers treating their products, components and raw materials like assets. This pattern shows the top level of that experience.
Value Self Assessment
Use this pattern to assist your customers in estimating the value of their products themselves.
End-Of-Life – Cycle Pattern
Use this pattern to assist your customers in deciding on wether to refurbish, upcycle or recycle their product at the end of its life.
End-Of-Life – Behavioral Pattern
Use this pattern to nudge your customers into refurbishing or upcycling their product by making recycling look the weaker choice.
End-of-Life – Bar Chart Pattern
Use these patterns to assist your customers in comparing the options to refurbish, upcycle or recycle their product at the end of its life.
Resell Offers Pattern
Use this pattern to show your customer different offers of private and commercial buyers within the value range of his product.
Resell Peer-to-Peer Pattern
Use this pattern to organize reselling between your customers, including remote quality assurance and peer-to-peer logistics.
Recycle Value Pattern
Use this pattern to show your customer the potential value of the embodied materials and components in his product and his options to recycle them.
Upcycling Pattern
Use this pattern to keep customers from discarding or downcycling their products by inspiring do-it-yourself upcycling or by connecting them to commercial upcycling providers.
Harvest Request Pattern
Use this pattern to ask your customers wether they are open to reselling their product or switching components in order to harvest valuable materials.
Visibility – Alerts Pattern
Use this pattern to get your customers attention for their products.
Visibility – Dashboard Pattern
Use this pattern to get your customers attention for their products.
Visibility – Conversational Pattern
Use this pattern to get your customers attention for their products. The Conversational Pattern ist best to create a very intimate relationship between customers with their products.
Visibility – Calendar Pattern
Use this pattern to get your customers attention for their products. The Calendar Pattern ist best to make care and maintenance part of your customers routine.
Visibility – Notification Pattern
Use this pattern to get your customers attention for their products. The Notification Pattern ist best to get your customers immediate attention.
Framing Pattern
Use this pattern to make the more circular product look better than the linear product.
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Voices from the Experts
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„Really cool concept for helping designers and businesses embrace the Circular Economy and a concept that could be rolled out across different design disciplines as well.“
LEYLA ACAROĞLU / TED speaker, United Nations „Champion of the Earth“ CEO of creative agency Disrupt Design
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„This is a fantastic enabler for greater customer adoption of circular services.“
JOE ILES / Circular Design Programme Lead Ellen MacArthur Foundation
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„Wonderful project that rightly states that the UX patterns for online shopping need strong competition from equally well designed circular patterns.“
BAS RAIJMAKERS / Owner and Creative Director STBY London and Amsterdam