基于用户体验的适老化橱柜设计

Design of Aging-friendly Cabinets Based on User Experience

如今人口老龄化呈现加速态势,我国进入老龄化社会。结合老年人特殊的生理和心理需求,研究基于用户体验的适老化橱柜产品的解决方案。首先,通过网上调研和实地调研对市场上已有的适老化橱柜产品进行分类研究,并提出适合老年人使用的厨房布局形式。然后,研究老年人的生理、心理需求及消费观,通过模拟体验、用户访谈等方法进一步研究适老化橱柜创新或改进设计的可能性,以此作为适老化橱柜设计的基石,再基于老年人在厨房工作的痛点,从橱柜外观的形状、材质、色彩和功能的适用性、智能化、交互性等方面提出适老化橱柜产品的设计要素。最后,改进现有适老化橱柜的不足,综合橱柜的智能性与经济性,提出一种新的基于用户体验的适老化橱柜设计方案。

Now that the aging population is accelerating,China has entered an aging society.The work aims to study solutions for aging-friendly cabinet products based on user experience by combining the special physical and psychological needs of the elderly.First of all,the existing aging-friendly cabinet products on the market are classified through online research and on-site research and a kitchen layout suitable for the elderly is proposed.Secondly,the physical and psychological needs and consumption views of the elderly are studied.Simulated experience,user interview and other methods are used to further study the possibility of innovative or improved design of aging-friendly cabinets,as a cornerstone of aging-friendly cabinet design.Then,the design elements of agingfriendly cabinet products are proposed from the perspective of the appearance,material,color and function applicability,intelligence,interaction and other aspects of the cabinets,based on the pain points of the elderly working in the kitchen.Finally,a new aging-friendly cabinet design scheme based on user experience is proposed by improving the deficiencies of existing aging-friendly cabinets and combining the intelligence and economy of cabinets.