Our modern world of technology is not without consequence - one of them being the problem of electronic waste (e-waste). E-waste is a generic term embracing various forms of electric and electronic equipment that is loosely discarded, surplus, obsolete, or broken. When ewaste is disposed of without any controls, there are significant predictable negative impacts on the environment and human health. While current solutions have been proposed from designing for reuse to fabricating with ecofriendly decomposable materials to more radical critiques of current cultural practices surrounding capitalism and consumerism, this paper proposes a scaffolding technique towards the larger solutions. Through a series of online design provocations we call online probes, we demonstrate the ideation and construction of a design vocabulary that can be readily operationalized in everyday design to help facilitate and promote the overall creative potential and range of e-waste reuse and product lifespan while still maintaining personal ownership of the e-waste. The goal is to show that everyday design operations can be generalized and readily applied across a wide range of e-waste beyond those specifically used in our study.