Holistic design is a methods which treat the object being designed as an interconnected whole that’s also part of something larger. This method of design takes into account the environment and how its design will effect on it. So they try there best to reduce the impact of designing on environment. Also, Designers of Holistic design think about how people will view the object, how the designed object may change during the time of day and angle of viewing. Furthermore, they consider what message it should till and how it will feel from inside. Designers design their systems with thinking about how flexible and easy to maintain their project can be. They make additional spaces so that whenever the system needed a new thing, no major change will be required. Another thing, they concentrate in how other things in the same design family will fit in the project.  Holistic design concepts have many applications in different aspects such as such as mechanical devices, layout of spaces and many others. http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-holistic-design.htm

The process of making a holistic designs focuses in three things, user experience, economy of the building, and ecology of the building. It was proved that’s in holistic building the productivity of people increase and they feel better than in other normal building. All these things happen because of the fact that’s Holistic buildings are made by friendly environmental materials. http://www.tri-arch.com/innovation.html

This is an example to understand the concept of holistic design, street furniture. In designing this furniture, they tried to relate design as part of a bigger picture. “recycling containers, flower pots) into its design based on the demand of the location “. http://www.arch2o.com/parametric-urban-street-furniture-for-hong-kong/