The concept of planned obsolescence can be defined as a marketing strategy in which the manufacturers deliberately and consciously design the products to have a shorter lifespan and to make the products less durable. With the consumer society, the need for a new workspace to design products and systems has emerged, and thus the industrial design profession has emerged. In order to increase consumption, products are produced by deciding how long they will be used during the design process. Industrial designers design based on limited functional life design, design for limited repair, and the creation of new needs. This study is mainly about examining the relationship between the planned obsolescence strategy and the discipline of industrial design through the examples of dust bagless vacuum cleaners. For this purpose, a questionnaire consisting of 125 participants was conducted to determine the product group to be studied first. Then, literature research and market research were carried out. The technical components and features of the products of the specified brands were investigated. Planned interviews were made with the R&D managers or industrial design managers of the specified brands. The data obtained as a result of all the researches were classified according to the planned obsolescence types and matrices were formed. According to the data obtained, it is seen that the tendencies towards the planned obsolescence strategy are similar in most of the sampled brands.
Primary Language | English |
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Subjects | Architecture |
Journal Section | Industrial Design |
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Publication Date | December 30, 2022 |
Submission Date | November 1, 2022 |
Published in Issue | Year 2022 Volume: 10 Issue: 4 |