Designing for Longevity: Expert Strategies for Creating Long-Lasting Products

Designing for Longevity is a book that provides designers, developers, and creators with five expert strategies, detailed case studies, action guides, and worksheets to create new product concepts with long-lasting strategic fits. It focuses on integrating business knowledge, market conditions, company capabilities, technical possibilities, and user needs into product concepts to make better strategic decisions. Key case studies offer inspiration and guidance from design teams, and action guidelines and worksheets encourage broad, analytical problem-solving.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 266 pages
Publication date: 12 October 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Product longevity plays a pivotal role in the transition towards a more sustainable society and serves as a driving force behind the circular economy model. This comprehensive book offers designers, developers, and creators a wealth of expert strategies, detailed case studies, actionable guides, and worksheets to aid them in developing innovative product concepts that possess long-lasting strategic alignments.

In Designing for Longevity, readers are taken on a journey to explore how expert design teams conceive and develop original and enduring product concepts. The book emphasizes the integration of various factors such as business knowledge, market conditions, company capabilities, technical possibilities, and user needs into product concepts to make informed strategic decisions. It underscores the importance of creating a long-lasting strategic fit for customers, companies, and markets to ensure the durability of products.

Through captivating case studies of renowned products like Bang & Olufsen's A9, LEGO Ninjago and Friends, and Coloplasts Sensura Mio, among others, readers gain valuable inspiration, guidance, and real-world insights from design teams that have successfully applied these strategies. Action guidelines and worksheets encourage a broad, analytical approach to problem-solving, enabling designers to identify and address challenges at the early concept stage.

Beautifully designed and illustrated in full color throughout, this book combines original research with practical tools and strategies that design practitioners require to create useful, sustainable products. It serves as a valuable resource for professionals, students, and anyone interested in designing for longevity and contributing to a more sustainable future.

Weight: 510g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032284668