The greatest environmental impact of electrical and electronic products often occurs during their use. This impact can be heavily influenced by consumer behaviour. Influencing user behaviour, therefore, is key. To date, design-led research into behavioural change is limited and any knowledge available resides across several disciplinary areas, making it difficult to access.

'design-behaviour' is a resource specifically developed to support designers and engineers in exploring how design (in its broadest sense) can influence user behaviour to reduce the social and environmental impacts of products during use.

The content of this website builds on the PhD findings of Dr Debra Lilley. It is not intended to be viewed as a "how to" guide but as a starting point to spark ideas and promote discussion. You can use this site to find information about design-led approaches for behavioural change and learn how others have applied these approaches in practice.

Bear in mind that Design for Behavioural Change (known more recently as 'Design for Sustainable Behaviour') is not an absolute proven science but an evolving theory so please feel free to contribute to or even disagree with the ideas presented in this website by e-mail to debra.