User Experience Research And Application In Product Design

The researches of usability and user experience are originally from some special fields of design research, such as ergonomics, interaction design, etc. In a common sense, the domain of user experience research is a part of the research of usability. Usability is very important, but user experience is much more meaningful to products. The focus of user experience is that, how users get the experience, when they interact with products; and the aim of user experience is the clear explanation for the quality of user experience, such as emotion or pleasure.In user-centered product design and development, the key elements are understanding user experience information, generating design innovation from the information and applying the information into the course of product development. The paper captured detail user information by some kinds methods of market investigation, analyzed the information in qualitative and quantitative ways and finished the task analysis of using cabinet. On the basis of the analysis, user experience hierarchy model is developed to direct innovative design and express the design innovation by storyboard to finish the detail design. And user evaluation should be in progress after the product put into production to build up a cycle of user experience design.The methods of analysis user experience and applying to product design and development can be applied in other kinds of products design and development, that is understanding user information, analysis user information by task analysis and design by storyboard.