Design and engineering practitioners use an application-driven approach to material selection, which aligns with their reliance on material properties, such as stiffness or strength, and technical benefits as crucial decision-making factors. The most used tool sections were material properties, applications, and technical benefits aligning with the application-driven approach. For instance, during the focus group sessions, the material choices changed depending on the application requested in each material task activity, from conventional materials to commercially available bio-based alternatives. The aspects that helped those changes towards renewable materials were the insights provided into materials already adopted in commercial products, reassuring the participants of feasibility and performance. It was easier to choose renewable materials when more data was available.