Collaborative Lifetime Design

Truly collaborative design may be said to be equivalent to lifetime design. When people collaborate, they share standards because interoperability is desirable from a Democratic Technology perspective. Standards must be transparent, therefore the design must be transparent. When the design is transparent, it is easy to fix, maintain, or modify - by widely accessible, easy-to-source parts. Lifetime.design is the result of easy maintenance - for as long as the user chooses to do so. Therefore, lifetime design is an Affordance or typical outcome of truly collaborative design.

This term is emphasized to expose that collaborative design is lifetime design.