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How long designs survive
- The Internet has considerably shortened product life cycles, leading to frequent design updates even for products surviving decades.
- Some designs, like sticky notes, have an intentionally ephemeral nature, allowing for easy changes and movement.
- Sand mandalas, created by Tibetan monks, are intricate symbolic representations destroyed after completion to symbolize impermanence.
- Websites typically have a lifespan of about 2 years, with Craigslist being a rare example of a site maintaining its original design since 1995.
- The Thonet №14 Chair, in use for 166 years, is a design classic known for its simplicity and association with Parisian cafes.
- Bicycles, invented around 1817, showcase enduring engineering simplicity despite advancements in underlying technologies.
- The Pantheon in Rome, completed around 126 AD, continues to be in use after almost 2000 years, highlighting adaptive reuse in preserving historical structures.
- Objects like mortar & pestle, in use for about 37,000 years, illustrate the lasting significance of designs that serve essential functions.
- Pyramids and hand axes, used for over 4000 years and a million years respectively, are iconic examples of enduring design and utility.
- Lessons from long-lasting designs emphasize monumental teamwork, adaptation, and celebrating the ephemeral nature of creations.
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