The most distant endings

1 May

Such a tiny fraction of items on earth get to leave it. So it's refreshing that the ones who do, have a spectacular and well thought through ending.

Few products, services or digital services have there end designed, let alone in the detail that is required for any space program.

These versions of endings from @duncangeere at How We Get To Next are good inspiration for us all to think more about long term design or how to design endings.

1. Leave It There
2. Shoot It Down
3. Into the Unknown
4. Crash Landing

Joe Macleod

Joe Macleod is founder of the worlds first customer ending business. A veteran of product development industry with decades of experience across service, digital and product sectors.

Head of Endineering at AndEnd. TEDx Speaker. Wired says “An energetic Englishman, Macleod advises companies on how to game out their endgames. Every product faces a cycle of endings. It's important to plan for each of them. Not all companies do." Fast Company says “Joe Macleod wants brands to focus on what happens to products at the end of their life cycle—not just for the environment but for the entire consumer experience.”

He is author of the Ends book, that iFixIt called “the best book about consumer e-waste”. And the new book –Endineering, that people are saying “defines and maps out a whole new sub-discipline of study”. The DoLectures consider the Endineering book one of the best business books of 2022.

The most distant endings

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