Nature-based Design decisions: A Brainstorm & Evaluation Tool

What?

Want to practice life-centered design? Want to follow nature's lead in your problem solving skills? This brainstorm and evaluation tool will help you do just that!

This tool consists of 14 questions that allow you to critically evaluate your design scope or your design solution. Each answer carries a point value which is tallied and provides you with a life-friendliness score.

For each question, possible improvements and ideas are provided which can help you improve your score.

Why?

As designers, we strive to always be on top of so many things. Keep our skills sharp, invest in the newest and strongest technology, balance the needs of the clients, our needs, and limitations of budgets, etc. Being a sustainable designer might be just another "to do" item on your wishlist. This tool allows you to quickly brainstorm new and life-friendly solutions.

This tool provides you with questions that were derived from how nature operates. The Life's Principles (LPs) were originally defined by a group of experts together with B3.8, the international Biomimicry. These 26 principles summarize how life works. For this tool, we translated, categorized, and reordered the LPs according to the design process into a decision making tool specifically for visual communication designers.