Learning Materials Kitchen bin - Issues The kitchen bin programme highlights the following issues in design for retail environments: the challenge of designing innovative features into a product at a price point which the consumer is willing to accept the difficulties of overcoming manufacturer scepticism in a low-tech market where change is slow and evolutionary the need to design easy-to-use products which respond to the abilities of an ageing population in terms of grip, strength and operability the creative workshop brainstorming methods to generate new product ideas in relation to an established artefact the need to improve communication between those designing the product and those responsible for making it the importance of functional product geometries and engineering details to giving products market attributes. Keywords innovation recycling practicality older users prototype investment Many of the above keywords are explained further in Channel 4’s jargon-busting A to Z of design terms and design concepts. Click on the Channel 4 logo at the top of the page to visit the site.