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In general the concepts associated to sustainable product development have as objective to improve of products development process to reduce the environmental loads linked to them. Guidelines, checklists and other tools have been developed to product design for a long time with different complexity, structure and phase of application of development process. These characteristics bring many obstacles to use of these tools by designers mainly during the phase of creation of products, the most important moment where the responsible specifications about the level the sustainability of product will have are defined. Two main characteristics can be associated to difficulties that designers find to application of these tools: the first is related to the type of information needed for their use. Many ecodesign tools demand a long time of application and require a large amount of information about the projects that most of the time is not yet available in the early stages of the development process. And the second is related to specific know-how that generally the designers cannot to process. The objective this paper was to identify some the main ecodesign tools applied to designer throughout de product development process in the last decade. The results indicate that the use of tools that use qualitative information have better potential application by the designers during the creative phase of the process and may increase the product sustainability indices throughout their life.
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