Contexts of Experience (COE): A Psychology-based Design Tool, Towards Sustainable Consumption Through Extending the Product Lifetime

This article introduces how one can design for product longevity through eliciting consumer-product attachment in order to restrain the rate of product replacement. The research disclosed the design tool ”Contexts of Experience” (COE) which combines strategies of consumer–product attachment and associated psychological phenomenon. The COE was disclosed and analyzed through case study.