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Why is this important?

  • Informed consumers make smart decisions
  • Your decisions effect the world you live in and your personal health
  • The next "big thing" is not always the right thing

Design Process and Launch

  • Sketches
  • Create prototype

-plastic or Styrofoam

  • Create internal parts

-printed circuit

-battery

-screen

  • Program phone operations (apps)
  • Create individual parts

-circuit board

-screen

-keypad

-speaker

  • Launch product

Effects on our Environment

100%

2009. Graphic. mariahock designing for people, products & services, Amsterdam. Web. 10 Nov 2014. <http://www.maria-hock.com/portfolio/luxury-mobilephone/>.

of the materials in a cell phone

CAN

be recycled

What is a Life Cycle?

2014. Graphic. Chicago Gateway Green, Chicago . Web. 10 Nov 2014. <http://www.gatewaygreen.org/why_recycling_is_important/>.

NOT Recycling

Life Cycle of a Mobile Phone

  • E-waste for centuries
  • High environmental toxic levels
  • Water contamination
  • Soil contamination
  • Deformities in animal's offspring
  • Damage to human nervous system and reproductive system
  • "story" of the product
  • 4 Phases

-product launch

-product growth

-product maturity

-product decline

What is your cell phone made of?

Maturity Phase

  • "Peak point"
  • Repeat buyers
  • Sales begin to slow down

Product Growth

  • Rapid growth of sales
  • Considered the "must

have" product

2013. Chart. Oxford College of MarketingWeb. 10 Nov 2014. <http://blog.oxfordcollegeofmarketing.com/2013/02/20/the-marketing-mix-product-and-brand/>.

Product Decline

Product Launch

  • Last phase
  • Sales fall drastically
  • Many times product is
  • pulled from shelves
  • Introduced to market
  • Low Sales
  • High-Income and

adventurous buyers

Disposal of Cell Phone

"Everyone has a drawer of phones and they don't realize the impact they can have on the environment"

-Channa Ming

Life Span of a Cell Phone

Average Turnover Rate for the U.S:

1 Year 9 Months!

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