| In the long history of human design, the industrial design not only creates a modern lifestyle and living environment for mankind, but also constantly affects the natural environment. As a result, the outbreak of ecological crisis has been serious harm to the living environment and healthy of human being. In response to the energy crisis and to achieve sustainable development, the concept of "green design" was proposed, and then the design known as "low-carbon" became a new design trends. Someone says that "low-carbon design" is actually a new phrase to go with the stream of "green design". Then is it that the "green design" and "low-carbon design" are identical? What is "low-carbon design"? What difference does it make them?The paper, in the first place, will interpret the meaning of "green design" and "low-carbon design" and further present the relations between them, and then will clarify the vision on "low-carbon design" through investigation and analysis of theory and practice research which is domestic or foreign on this area, and put forward some reasonable suggestions to make this "low-carbon design" suitable for methods and principles of industrial product design. Finally, the views of author will certificated and tested by the means of shopping. All in all, the purposes of this paper is to change the usage mode of products by "low-carbon design" so that to develop a real new "low-carbon" lifestyle. I also sincerely hope to provide a theoretical basis and reference information on researches of related areas through this paper. |