A Study on Humorous Product Design

• Main Authors: Cheng-Hsiu Du, 杜政修
• Other Authors: Chia-Hsiang Ma
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/75290214425592089688

碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 工業設計學系碩博士班 === 96 === Products are facing keenly competition in markets. In order to outshine other products, only with superior functions is no longer a guarantee for being best-selling. Many studies mentioned that some products are so humorous that they successfully attract consumers’ attentions. When designing humor products, designers simply use their intuitions and experiences in most of the time. However, it would make the process of developing humor products become inefficient and hard to control. Some studies in psychology showed that one’s sense of humor could be increased efficiently by training, which is also helpful to inspire the creativity of humor. This research includes the following 3 stages：（1）sampling（2）analyzing humor products（3）verifying the result of survey. After constructing the process of creating(or designing) humor products , we verifies the humor products which developed through the above process by questionnaire survey. Finally, summarizing the main characteristics of humor products into a concrete form. The result of this research includes:(1) the process of judging humor products (2) humorous product type features,which are helpful to designers inspire the ideas of humor when designing humor products. (3) four logical accesses of humorous product design (4) the process of developing humor products.