Research On Stress-relief Product Design Based On Empathy Design Method

With the rapid development of economic and technology.While enjoying the higher quality living environment brought by development,people are also surrounded by the competitive relationship and high-intensity work from the development process,they are under a high level of mental stress.Living under the environment full of stress,using stress-relief products to help them with the emotional problem and improve mental healthiness is an important tendency in the future development of product design.But at present,researches on the design of stress-relief products is rare.So this article will focus on the study of stress-relief products and the applicable design methodologies,and try to fill the gaps in the current filed.Based on the psychological state of young people,this article try to analyze and study the design of Stress-relief products.At the same time,tries to introduce "empathic design" method into the design process of Stress-relief product.Which provide a helpful solution to meet the needs from the people's mental health in this period of development through effective product design research and practice.The word “Empathic design” which I introduced in this paper,is an important part of user-centered design study.This theory can help designers to have a clearer understanding of user's emotional,attitude,and behavioral psychological aspects during design research process.Which helps designers dig out user's hidden needs for the product.The article first guides the relevant theories of empathic design through the description of multi-disciplinary understanding and elaboration of the concept of "empathy".Secondly,defined the meaning of “Stress-relief product” and classified the existing stress-relief products based on their functional characteristics.Next step is to combine the emotional-design theory to summarize the different empathy features of the existing stress-relief products.Then present that “reflection” empathy feature as the guideline in the design process of stress-relief products,and based on this conclusion,to filter out applicable empathic design tools and methods for stress-relief products,also summarized the significant meaning of using empathic design methods to design stress-relief products.At last,using empathic design methods and tools to design a stress-relief product,explore the feasibility of theoretical methods,and provides reference for further design works.