Challenges of the Right to Repair for Companies 🔧

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All content directed, written and (partially) edited by John Mauriello. John Mauriello has been working professionally as an industrial designer since 2010. He is an Adjunct Professor of industrial design at California College of the Arts.

Main video edit by Brad Heath.

This video is about why designing repairable products is not as simple as you think. Many people think it doesn't happen because of corporate greed. While that is certain one reason, there are many other far less malicious reasons for the lack of repairability we see in our devices.

Main Works Cited:
The Right to Repair: Reclaiming the Things We Own
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Other works were cited but in a smaller capacity. When referenced, they are displayed in the bottom left corner of the video.

0:00 Intro
1:10 Misaligned Incentives
4:13 Storyblocks sponsor
5:23 Deeply Entrenched Corporate Structures
6:40 Customer Expectations
9:30 Planned Obsolescence
10:13 Thin, Sleek, and Minimalistic=Quality???
13:34 Repairability and Backwards Compatibility
16:34 Product Architecture
19:13 Increased Complexity
22:09 Laws
25:53 What Should We Do???