Designing Keepworthy Products

Abstract

The aim for this thesis is to explore how principles of keep-worthiness can be applied to design products. There are many theoretical studies and frameworks that describe aspects of keepworthy products, but little research is done through design practice. The first phase of this thesis is literary review, focusing on pointing out key insights that can inform design. These insights are subsequently used to create design briefs as starting off points for idea-generation and prototyping. This resulted in four different products that in different ways demonstrate principles of keep-worthiness. The insights gained in how to design for keep worthiness can be applied to any product design process, and is of relevance to designers who wish to create keep-worthy products.