Appearance-Behavior-Culture in Creating Consumer Products with Cultural Meaning Meant to Evoke Emotion

摘要

This paper aims to describe an attempt to develop a design process for the enhancement of cultural factors in product design. Appearance-behavior-culture (ABC) theory was applied to construct the six design processes. To test the processes, a collaborative project designing a glass teapot was used, following the six developed design processes step by step, and each step is described. The discussion covers designer and client feedback during the design stages. Designers specifically commented positively on the use of 3-D printing technology as an efficient tool for effectively and quickly checking ideas.