Research On Children 's Product Design And Development Based On Educational Experience

Children are the hope of the future; therefore, children education is quite importance both in family and in nation. The writer tried to achieve the children education purpose through products’educational experience feeling since children education measures are diversified, the children of age 0 to 6 have the chance to reach different products in daily life.Children’s products were taken as the study object in this paper to analyze the concerns of children education and explore the type of educational experience from the perspective of product experience design through the research about children education and children’s cognitive development characteristics, thus guiding the development of children’s educational experience products; meanwhile, the paper analyzed product design and development process, established system design and development model for educational experience children’s products to provide references and concepts for future products design and development.Firstly, the paper analyzed the relationship between education and experience, and explored the connotation of educational experience from the perspective of product experience design; sorted and analyzed the pattern and content of children education through the material reading, analyzed the educational concerns and needs during educational process by integrating the characteristics of early childhood and pre-school children’s cognitive development; the basic type of educational experience was derived based on the above analysis and design experience hierarchy theory of Donald Norman:cognitive educational experience, behavioral educational experience, emotional educational experience and intelligent educational experience.Then, through investigation and interviews to parents and preschool teachers, performances of four types of educational experiences were proposed; children, as a special group, their requirements about the educational experience products design were summarized.At last, based on above studies, children’s products design principles were established, conceptual model of educational experience children’s products and design process model were constructed; conceptual model of educational experience children’s products was the product system related to children (users), products and educational experience (process) formed by combining the analysis about the characteristics of education goals and education objects as well as the interpretation about the functional demands of educational tools.