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Increasing products lifespan is a strategy for a greener and more sustainable future. From a societal vantage point, disposing or discarding products results into consumerism with mountains of waste. Kitchen utensils, regarding their high frequency of usage, are not exceptions of this matter and their design, alongside with their material quality, specify their longevity factor. User-product interaction plays a major role for the design of products which would last longer, whether emotionally or functionally. There are many products which due to poor physical interaction design, destined to breakage, disposal or discardment. In this study, one of the popular tools in participatory design was used to elicit firstly, deep layers of user-product interaction in an authentic environment (like daily routine life), and secondly evaluate the possibility of engaging users in the design process for this rubric. Contextmapping is originally developed to discover latent needs and tacit knowledge of users and in this study, with minor modifications derived from semiotics, context mapping with the goals of product durability was used to find its viability in user-product interaction and glean design principles on product longevity from an actual product-user.
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