Research On Life-style And Product Design

The thesis makes a research on urban youth’s life-style and eating habits in orderto apply life-style theory to product design. The research includes the research statusof life-style and urban youth, the measure method of life-style and eating habits, thegroups of urban youth and their utilization characteristic of kitchenware, and thedesign practice of one group.The research methods include literature reviewing, quantitative analysis methodand qualitative analysis method. The quantitative analysis method involves factoranalysis and cluster analysis while the qualitative analysis method involves intensiveinterview, participant observation and scenario analysis.As to conclusion, firstly, the research builds a product design process based onlife-style. Secondly, with the method of data analysis and qualitative analysis, urbanyouth is divided into three life-style groups based on their eating habits and alsopersona is built to each group. At last, the research sums up each group’s designprinciples and design practice is implemented for one group.