Use

Design for ease of maintenance, reparability, upgradability and adaptability. Work for efficiency in use and maintainability as well as optimisation of initial lifetime. And re-use, do not forget about the second life!

User and environment friendly products: preserve and extend what is already made

1. Persuasive design
   Understand how you can increase people’s ability and motivation to behave sustainably.
2. Design for ease of maintenance and repair
   Optimise the initial lifetime by offering extended-life products that are multifunctional, easy to maintain and repair. Optimising the function of products and ensure most suitable service life.
3. Efficiency in use
   Design products that require fewer resources during operation. Energy-efficiency – a major source of environmental impact is the energy consumed by a product during its use. Ensure that products use fewer resources, cause less waste and pollution when they are used by end customers.
4. Design for upgradability and adaptability
   Allow for future expansion and modification. Product life extension – keep the product alive and relevant (modernisation) and enable personalisation.
5. Product as a service: product life extension – lease – rent – share
   Sharing platform, renting, swapping, collaborative consuming, cloud computing etc.
   Product as a service – service-based business models.
6. Re-use
   Second life, alternative use of the product, for example can an old phone work as a burglar alarm? Head for second-hand markets.

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