Applying Sense of Time and Design Thinking-Timing Related Product Design

• Main Authors: LI, MENG SHU, 李孟書
• Other Authors: Huang, Ding-Yi
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/4ktrf6

碩士 === 實踐大學 === 工業產品設計學系碩士班 === 104 === In both fields of science and humanities, “time” is a mysterious subject that has been continuously investigated. In order to survive in modern society, we are asked to be efficient and competitive, and such a dynamic generates modern plagues such as insomnia, melancholia, and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). Therefore, knowing how to relax and release the stress became a primordial aspect of modern life. Time is an axis filled with our feelings, memories and dreams. Time is an essential part of human sensibility, and it is therefore not surprising that it is the driving force behind many of our projects, through the entire spectrum of our means of expression. This study focuses on time, and its spirit, in order to discover how its emotional aspects can be applied on product design. We will first see in this study how time is perceived by science, as well as ordinary people and pop culture. We will further explain how time is a semiotic object, that is, a means to transmit information. We will also analyze how the modern product design process can be seen as a metaphor of time. All the elements above, once combined, will help us define the relationship between time and product design. Products presented in this study have been part of exhibitions and competitions, in order to get the necessary feedback from the user’s emotional and functional experience.