Edexcel GCSE Design and Technology · 1DT0
Specification 2.3.6, 4.3.6, 5.3.6, 6.3.6, 7.3.6 · Paper 1
Deliberately designing a product to have a limited useful or desirable life so that users replace it.
Revise: Cultural and Ethical FactorsBuilt-in product obsolescence means deliberately limiting a product’s useful or desirable life to encourage replacement. This can involve a short physical life, or planned changes that make an existing product seem outdated even while it still functions.
- Revise: Cultural and Ethical Factors
The deliberate planning of a limited useful or desirable product life to encourage replacement purchases; also called planned obsolescence.