Compliance can require a change; it cannot make people want it. Luxury’s real expertise is desirability—material, proportion, craft, and the confidence to remove what does not belong.

Technology and consumer-hardware companies are now solving the same problem: how do you make responsible choices feel like the more desirable ones, inside the product and across the organization that builds it?

The answer is to design sustainability into the object and the system from the start—so responsibility reads as quality, not sacrifice. That is where better products, and the teams behind them, begin.

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