Ökad medvetenhet kring energiförbrukning i hushåll

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this tesis is to promote awareness among people about their electricity consumption at home through sustainable development and user-centred design (UCD). Electricity consumption is a subject with both global and personal purposes. Previous apps and essays on electricity consumption are often displayed through charts and numbers. In this work, I have worked with colour, function and shape through product design to raise awareness among the users. Previous research studied for this work is sustainable development, energy consumption and behavior. This would be beneficial for the environment as well as for society and people’s economy. Methods used are literature reaserch, mindmapping, interview, workshops, feedback with users, brainstorming, sketching, conceptualization, and final 3D-prototype. The knowledge contribution is to provide new insight into how much energy you use and knowledge about energy consumption in the household through function, shape and color instead of the traditional way through numbers and diagrams. The design contribution in this study is to make it physically visible in a product about human energy consumption and to demonstrate by design to promote human energy use. The project resulted in a product whose main purpose is to raise awareness among people about their energy consumption in their home in a more easy to understand way and innovating way. Keywords: Sustainable development, energy supply, User-centered design (UCD), energy consumtion, awareness.