As people change their lifestyles with science and technology highly advanced, there occurs a phenomenon that high-tech technology-based home appliances are being integrated with living spaces. As a result, their overall coordination and decoration wi...
As people change their lifestyles with science and technology highly advanced, there occurs a phenomenon that high-tech technology-based home appliances are being integrated with living spaces. As a result, their overall coordination and decoration with living spaces is more emphasized in addition to the value of independent and functional designs for home appliances. In this respect, this study aims to propose the importance of visual sensibility values by expanding the range and role of visual elements, while focusing on 2D-like planar designs based on the phenomenon of home appliances being integrated with living spaces, rather than 3D-like form sensibility of product designs. Thus, this study selected 4 typical home appliances and examined their different characteristics and sensibilities, further analyzing expanded values of visual sensibility designs. The analysis results can be summarized as follows; Visual elements were used only for independent product designs to give prominence to 3D-like form sensibility before. As home appliances are more directly involved in living spaces, however, they become more integrated and planar, and the range of visual elements is more expanded to give prominence to 2D-like visual sensibility. Besides, through the integration between home appliances and living spaces, the value of visual sensibility designs become more important with effectively-expanded roles of technology-grafted visual signals as well as planar visual elements. In conclusion, this study has significance in examining a differential direction of visual sensibility design contents for consumers who value individual sensibilities and values, providing a way to increase their sensibility satisfaction and recognizing the importance of expanded values of visual sensibility designs.