Tapani Jokinen

Tapani Jokinen is an internationally renowned strategic & circular design expert. His 25 years of extensive experience in design give him a unique insight into managing complex businesses, promoting sustainability-led innovation and developing sustainable products and services. By integrating design thinking and lifecycle thinking, Tapani helps companies accelerate their transition from a linear to a circular economy. Besides his work as a design consultant at Fraunhofer IZM, he is the founder of TJ-Design, a creative consulting firm that fuses strategic innovation and design with sustainability business practices. He was Head of the Design Portfolio and Strategy at Microsoft / Nokia, where he was one of the designers behind the iconic Nokia 3310. Tapani is one of the authors of the Ecodesign Learning Factory program, a role that has led him to teach and conduct training modules, innovation workshops, and lectures on circular design in seminars and conferences.

A question of design: How form and functions support moderate and sustainable smartphone use

RealIZM-Blog-Series “Integrative Circular Economy” – Part 3 Smartphones are both a curse and a blessing. A blessing because they offer us security and enable us to contact our loved ones anytime and anywhere, quickly retrieve information and news, reach any…

MODEST CUBE: A vision of sustainable smartphone product design

RealIZM-Blog-Series “Integrative Circular Economy” – Part 2″ Most high-end smartphones have one thing in common – they all look very similar. Take any device from a leading manufacturer, and you will see  a powerful camera, a large display, and generally…

How Design Superpowers Will Save Our Planet

“Recycle and reuse” has become an increasingly common way of life for private consumers, but also for industrial enterprises. Still, many manufacturers continue to adhere to a creed of cost-effective – read: commercially rewarding – production. But what can companies…