How long can a product keep working?
Posted by Richard Mander February 25th, 2009. Filed under: Design leadership, Product Design.
Great post by Douglas MacMillan citing examples of people who are using out of date products that still work fine for them Readers defend out-of-date gadgets.
For myself, my Thinkpad is approaching 5 years old and I am woken every morning by my ten year old Palm PDA which I use now exclusively as an alarm clock – I’ll write another time as to why its such a great alarm clock.
Perhaps we need to slow down a little bit and think before we chuck out old gear, and perhaps as designers we need to think about how to make things last a little bit longer.
