Mutual Influence Of Traditional Two Gender Characteristics To The Industrial Product Design

In twenty first century, where people are prosperous in materials and spirit, the relationship of two genders and ways of life are quite different from these of past times. This presents us a question that what we should do in our industrial product design based on these differences.Firstly this paper will start from the gender difference. At the beginning, it will make a brief introduction about how the dependant relationships between two genders in past change into the independent relationships nowadays. And how they are presented in the industrial product design respectively.Second, this paper will analyze the new characteristics between the relationship of two genders in detail, and try to find out the underlying social reasons with the purpose to considerate the gender difference in industrial product design.Then, three categories of products: IT digital products, cars and home electric appliances are selected in this paper to analyze in detail to show how the change of gender difference influence the products design. From this it can be seen how the change of gender difference influence the industrial design: the shape, the color, the material, and human-machine, etc..Lastly, it concludes that because of the change of the relations of two genders, the designers should have the ability to realize the difference and present them in the product design. Only this, good and human-centered products can be designed.