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Product development toolkit for low income groups in India Condi ti onsseeki ng frugalsustai nabl i ty FrugalResourceUsage
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Defi ni ngFrugalSustai nabi l i ty Design for frugal sustainability is an approach to servetheruralIndian lowincome households thatcan spend less than INR 3,453 Indian rupees (US$75) on goodsand servicespermonth. The approach is o en characterized by frugalusage ofresourcesi n product devel opment, hi gh pri ce performance of theproduct,eďŹƒci entdi stri bu onchannel s and a concern forecol ogi calpreserva on i n spi teofconsi derabl eproďŹ tmargi ns. Envi ronmentalConcern
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Product development toolkit for low income groups in India
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Sol u t i onor i ent ed des i gni ns i gh t s Toc at egor i z es ol u t i ons s ou gh tbyt h edes i gner s wh i l e appr oac h i ng f r u gal s u s t ai nabi l i t y
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Fr ugal Su s t ai nabi l i t y Des i gn f or
Product development toolkit for low income groups in India
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Fr ugal l ysust ai nabl e Use the design toolkit.Tune your concept
The design tool provides design cues for approaching frugal sustainability. The design cues have been generated through a qualita ve study of cases ranging across concepts,prototypes and market-ready solu ons Design cues are insights from instances where constraints were faced in product development. Cues provides approaches to apply the solu ons to these constraints to instances in similar contexts
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