Chosen challenge:

• "As a person who supports sustainable consumption, I want to increase the efficiency of recycling/donating my goods and clothes when they are not needed anymore."

1. Project Brief

A Sustainable lifestyle

• There is a lot of concern about sustainability and since climate change is undeniable, many people are concerned about how they can make this world better for themselves and for the next generation by reducing their carbon footprint by recycling and donating things that they need anymore.
• So, how might we help them on making the right decisions on what to do with those goods and clothes with our app?

2. Discovery/Desk Research (1.5 hour)

• What is exactly sustainability?

  • According to Wikipedia, “is a societal goal that broadly aims for humans to safely co-exist on planet Earth over a long time”, although not everyone agrees on a specific definition. So we need to narrow down a little for our product.
  • Sustainability is actions that require so much effort, since it is impossible to do it alone, a chain is needed to convince friends, neighbors, family, and the government.
  • This is especially hard because there are a lot of climate change deniers out there, and they have much more power and money than we do [source].

• Is it hard to recycle?

  • As gathering deeper information is difficult, like conducting quantitative or qualitative research, I went to Reddit to see what people were saying about it.