Bathroom Faucet Design Is Based On Kansei Engineering

With the end of materialistic age, on the condition of meeting the basic functions, whether products can meet the emotional needs of consumers has become the key for successful product design. With the increasingly kinds of sanitary products, bathroom has become an essential part and contact them directly in people’s daily life. Users not only thinking bathroom faucet is just water port, but its beautiful shape and convenient function has been taken more and more seriously. Also it is an important criterion to measure the value of the product.This study builds on Kansei Engineering, based on the paper introduction of Kansei necessary knowledge, including definition, origin, Beijing of Kansei engineering, some utilization of the design as well as its application methods and procedures, a brief introduction about clustering analysis, linear regression analysis, PCA multidimensional scaling. With the design starting point for psychology of consumers and suitable person in the market, collecting a large quantity of bathroom taps pictures, making inductive analysis for all kinds of faucets on the market, through the form of questionnaires to complete building a emotional vocabulary table, and dig out common faucet design elements of some bathroom products to provide a reference for the study, including shape, color, texture (material,technology,decorate).The key of this paper is emphasis on how to apply sentimental method to product development. This paper uses consumer’s perspective as an entry point. First, they have an awareness and understanding of the whole sanitary industry and related industry. After build a industry standard, they begin to do sentimental cognitive research. Using Kansei Engineering to analysis every details which influence products sentimental and gradually establishing relationship between design elements of Kansei bathroom faucet and sentimental image. At last, generalize sentimental image with comprehensive analyze design elements.