Routledge Research in Product Design
About the Book Series
The Routledge Research in Product Design series provides academics, researchers, and students with the latest scholarship in the related fields of product design and industrial design. The series publishes quality research from across the globe and covers diverse topics such as materials, ethics, AI, creativity, decolonial and Indigenous design, technology, consumption, sustainability and circularity, fashion, history, and theory.
The series welcomes proposal submissions from early-career and established authors. Edited collections, co-authored volumes, and single author monographs are accepted for consideration.
To submit a proposal, please contact list editor Grace Harrison ([email protected]) for further information.
Designing Future-Oriented Solutions: Revolutionizing Decision-Making in Product Sustainability
1st Edition
By Dominika Siwiec, Andrzej Pacana
July 02, 2026
This book introduces Method Supporting Product Improvement (MSPI), a method that aggregates key sustainability criteria during the product design and development stages, including conceptualization and prototyping. The method presented in the book revolutionizes decision-making in product ...
Quality Life Cycle Assessment in Sustainable Product Development
1st Edition
By Bożena Gajdzik, Radosław Wolniak, Dominika Siwiec, Remigiusz Gawlik, Andrzej Pacana
October 29, 2025
This groundbreaking book introduces the Quality Life Cycle Assessment (QLCA) model – a novel approach that integrates product quality assessment and life cycle assessment (LCA) in sustainable manufacturing. By incorporating environmental criteria alongside quality considerations during ...
Decolonising and Indigenising Design: Theory, Methodologies, Storytelling, and Creative Practice
1st Edition
By Desiree Hernandez Ibinarriaga
March 03, 2025
This book offers a new approach to design theory and practice that draws on Indigenous knowledges, methodologies and methods, presenting concepts of decolonising and Indigenous design that are interweaved as theory, storytelling, and practices. The arena of design sustainability, social design, and...