In recent, the scope researching and developing products based on the learned customs and culture is being expanded. As the user-centered products’ design and release occupies substantial weight in a product’s success, so it is required to carry o...
In recent, the scope researching and developing products based on the learned customs and culture is being expanded. As the user-centered products’ design and release occupies substantial weight in a product’s success, so it is required to carry out a research having the motif as Korean traditional behavior considering the domestic people’s usability.
While current vernacular design factor enabling to be applied to the white appliance focuses on developing and researching the appearance design centering patterns, but the number of researches about applying behavior to the design is relatively few, so it needs to carry out some researches about the vernacular design’s behavior factors as well as its application.
In addition, the vernacular design should give more convenience to domestic white appliance users by analyzing and adding the learned customs and the traditional functional factors in the historic contest and developing more advanced white appliances.
As a research about the vernacular design factor being applied to the white appliance, this study divided the vernacular design’s characteristics into the three designs of custom design, subculture design and craft design on the basis of previous studies, and drew out the 7 factors of vernacular product design-the variability, the versatility, the constancy, the metaphor, the recombination, the newness, and the traditionality, and as the results from drawing out the 7 design factors, this study came to recognize that the custom design factors (variability, versatility and consistency) were mainly used in developing the behavior factors, so researched their characteristics.
In order to recognize the Korean traditional daily products’ functions and their use behaviors, this study analyzed some products being mainly used in processing, cooking, storing and delivering by custom design factor (variability, versatility and consistency), and finally after reviewing the changes in the white appliance market, this study applied some kinds of products (the Kimchi refrigerator, the electric pressure rice cooker, the multifunctional cooker and the first-round laundry) which the vernacular design’s behavior factors are applied, and after summarizing the analyzed results, this study drew out the vernacular design behavior’s variables, characteristics and factors and proposed a check list.