Application Of Flow Experience In Digital Products Design Research

Flow, as a mental state, was first proposed by psychology professor Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and is characterized by a distorted sense of time, a lack of self-consciousness, and complete engagement in the task at hand. A person in flow experience feels the largest happiness. Therefore, if a product could give its users flow experience, it would be successful. The aim of this paper is to introduce flow theory to product design.As a new theory, flow has not been widely used with a mature methodology system. To put this theory into practice, some developed research methods were analyzed and efforts were made to match these methods with flow experience. Also, the original methods on flow research were studied and introduced to product design. The design of digital products was divided into three major parts, among which the GUI was set as the major one. with digital product design as the goal, a application framework was finally generated. Chapter three and four focused on the research process to form such a framework. At last, an experiment was conducted.