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Garment Steamer Solution
With the progress of human society and the development of science and technology, people have higher and higher requirements for products. The demand of office workers for garment steamers is not only to satisfy the simple ironing function, but people pay more and more attention to the external appearance of products. Shape and inner emotional appeal. In recent years, my country's market has become more and more mature. In order to meet the "special" needs of different users, modern enterprise companies use mass production to meet public needs and customer customization methods to serve individual needs. In today's globalized market, customer satisfaction has become the main concern of enterprises and a necessary condition for product competition. In the modern market where product homogeneity is relatively serious, consumers have also begun to measure product satisfaction from subjective feelings.
The basic principle of hanging ironing machine technology is to hang the fabric up and use the gravity of the fabric itself to make the fabric fibers be subjected to the vertical downward gravity, and then cooperate with the appropriate temperature, humidity and pressure to change the structure, surface state and other properties of the fabric. Hot styling method. Early Japanese steamers used the heating method of steel plate steam chamber, while Italian steamers used steel pipe coils in the aluminum alloy plate as the heating carrier. At present, German steamers generally use stainless steel tubes cast in aluminum alloy molds for heating. After testing, the German steamer has the fastest heating speed, usually reaching the highest temperature in 18 minutes; the Italian steamer is the next best, reaching the highest temperature in about 22 minutes; the Japanese steamer has a lower thermal conductivity than aluminum alloy, It takes about 30 minutes to reach the highest temperature.
1. Analysis of Development Status of Garment Steamer
1.1 Status Quo of Garment Steamer Products
Garment steamers were introduced to China from Europe and the United States around 1998. In recent years, with the continuous development of small household appliances, they have entered a period of development in the domestic market. Garment steamers have developed rapidly in just two to three years and have become a A new category of hot-selling small household appliances. Garment ironing machine adds high-temperature sterilization, dehumidification and other effects on the basis of electric irons, making it more convenient for users to use. At present, there are probably hundreds of manufacturers of garment steamers. Among the hundreds of manufacturers, there are not only brand enterprises that only manufacture and develop garment steamers, such as Huaguang, Zhuoli, etc., but also large-scale comprehensive enterprises that mainly focus on home appliances to develop garment steamers, such as Haier, Royalstar, etc. In the existing market, we can see two types of garment steamers, one is the ordinary vertical garment steamer (Figure 1), this kind of garment steamer has a larger water tank, greater visibility and firmness The water tank has an anti-dry design, and can iron multiple sets of clothes at a time. The overall weight is relatively large, the storage space is large, and the shape is relatively bulky. The other is a portable garment steamer (Figure 2). This type of garment steamer has a relatively small water tank and less water, which is easy to handle and store.
1.2 Problems of Garment Steamer
At present, although European brands occupy a large proportion of the domestic garment ironing machine market, their share is also declining, while domestic garment steamers generally lack technology and innovation, and there are few independently developed products. Most of them are imitation and copying of foreign products, and there are more homogeneous products. Although such a small product can help users accomplish what users want to do to a certain extent, it is still far from satisfying users' psychological demands.
In recent years, small garment steamers have gradually appeared in the domestic and foreign markets. However, judging from the current situation of the existing garment steamers, the garment steamers are not perfect enough, and there are problems such as less water storage, ergonomic design, and easy hot steam. . The operation steps of the traditional large garment steamer are cumbersome and complicated, but although the small garment steamer occupies relatively small space, the water mist conversion speed is relatively fast, and the use angle and range are relatively wide. But there are also problems such as not being able to store too much water for a single use.
2. User demand analysis of garment steamer
User needs are the primary considerations in product design. The goal of product design is to meet people's needs, and "people" is the core of the entire design. This is also the basic idea of "human-centered" in product design. In product design, the designer should not only meet the user's physiological needs and safety needs, but also meet the user's emotional needs and self-needs.
2.1 Physiological needs
In the face of physiological needs, we have to use the functions of the product to make up for the work that we cannot achieve and are inconvenient to complete. This kind of design aims to meet the basic physiological needs of human beings, seeing design as a further extension of our own systems. The design of the telescope is a further extension of our eyesight. As a product produced by the garment ironing machine to satisfy people's clothing, while satisfying users' ironing, we can also provide the function of de-balling and sterilizing clothing.
2.2 Security requirements
Security requirements are the most basic requirements in product design. Whether the product is safe or not will directly affect our use. If there is a little less consideration in the product design process of the garment steamer, it may cause huge safety hazards to users. The safety of the garment steamer mainly refers to the safety attributes of the product itself to the user's operation process, and is mainly used in active protection and protective measures before a series of accidents such as product leakage and dry burning. During the design process, the structural shape of the product must meet the user's physiological needs, and the product should be suitable for the user's hand grip; the surface in contact with the user and the steamer must not be overheated. Therefore, in the use of materials, it is necessary to consider the use of fire-resistant and high-temperature-resistant materials, use non-polluting materials, avoid unnecessary physical damage to users, use better quality materials, improve the physical strength of the product, and increase the service life of the product . At the same time, the shape design of the garment steamer should be kept smooth, and try to avoid sharp and abrupt shapes.
2.3 Emotional needs
Subjective emotional needs are the interaction process between products and users. User-centered product design enables designers to create useful, applicable, and effective products. At the same time, designers will also pay attention to the emotional needs of products in the design process. "Pleasantness" is playing an increasingly important role in user needs.
In the design of garment steamers, designers should fully consider the psychological characteristics of users and deeply understand their demands for products. In order to create a comfortable psychological feeling for users, designers should choose according to the psychological characteristics of users. Appropriate product form, material, color, interaction and function. In order to meet the characteristics of the user's quality of life, the appearance design of the garment steamer should be high-end in terms of product structure. Most users of the garment steamer tend to be young female groups. In order to meet the aesthetic needs of these consumers, the steamer The overall design of the garment ironing machine can be biased towards the simple and warm style that most young people agree with, so that it can meet the emotional demands of most women. In addition, the use of different colors will bring different feelings to users. Appropriate color matching can bring users a good experience, while messy and too bright colors will bring discomfort to people and affect users' psychological emotions. affect human health to a certain extent. Therefore, in the use of colors in the design of garment steamers, we need to pay attention to the appropriate use of colors, choose suitable colors for matching and highlight the artistic treatment of colors. For example, fashion colors are in line with the lively side of young women; calm business awareness pursues simple and elegant color matching. In terms of interaction, the use of sound prompts in the sound processing of the garment steamer will make the cold product come alive.
2.4 Self-needs
Everyone has physical, psychological and spiritual needs in life. Demand is an inevitable manifestation of human survival and development. While the design of the garment steamer meets the basic functional requirements, it will also develop towards individualized needs, so as to meet the needs of different groups of people. For frequent business trips and young students, a convenient, space-saving and easy-to-carry garment steamer is also very important. Among the existing garment steamers on the market, in addition to satisfying the user's garment ironing function, some garment steamers also serve as humidifiers. At the same time, for family users with children, the setting of safety lock is also extremely important.
3. The Design Principles of Garment Steamer
Through the analysis of the status quo of the garment steamer, find out the problems existing in the existing garment steamer, and analyze the needs of users, and finally propose that the design of the garment steamer follows the following principles:
3.1 The principle of simplicity
From the perspective of product form, the product is more and more inclined to the simple development trend. From the use of bulky computers to the current use of notebook computers, we can see that the so-called simplicity is to require designers not to make unnecessary designs, and to solve problems in the most natural and convenient way. For product design, we must consider simplicity in terms of principle, structure and shape. For commonly used home appliances, the simplicity of the garment steamer is undoubtedly one of the important design principles. For the simplicity of appearance, the simple design of the garment steamer can reduce excessive decoration, so that the product has a strong sense of unity and integrity; for the simplicity of use, the designer should consider avoiding the complicated operation of the user. Misuse of the product will not only fail to achieve the purpose of ironing clothes, but may even cause harm to the user; in terms of the principle and structure of the product, the simpler the internal structure of the product, the better the stability of its operation. An effective structure can reduce the possibility of product failure during use and ensure its normal use.
3.2 Ease of use principle
The ease of use of the product is very important to the users of the garment steamer. The product must have good operability during use. In the process of using the product, users can easily understand the operation process of the product. In the design of the garment steamer, different information can be conveyed to users through different symbol prompts and color prompts, thereby reducing operational errors in product use and avoiding some safety accidents.
3.3 Aesthetic principles
Beautiful products can promote the commercialization of products. Designers must achieve beautiful effects while meeting product needs in the process of designing products. Beauty is an indeterminate concept that is constantly changing with time, space, people and other factors. When users look at beauty from different angles and perspectives, different effects will be achieved. Most of the users of garment steamers are young women. Most of these people are simple and elegant, and the shape is more soft and beautiful. In terms of color, it is mostly white, and different colors are added in an appropriate amount to match.
3.4 Comfort principle
People's quality of life is constantly improving, and product design with good comfort has become a necessary design principle to meet user needs. The overall shape of the garment steamer and the size and size of the components conform to the physiological dimensions of the user. Reasonable man-machine dimensions will directly affect the comfort of the garment steamer during use. The size and weight of the portable garment steamer should meet the needs of different groups of people as much as possible. In the selection of product materials, it is necessary to choose materials that are heat-insulating, leak-proof, water-leakage, and electricity-proof to increase the comfort of users when they touch them.
Summarize
In today's social environment, the affluence of quality of life has led to the rationalization of consumers' desire to buy. Users' demand for products no longer only focuses on functions. Consumers have higher requirements for craftsmanship and materials. better experience. Based on the current situation of serious homogeneity of garment steamer products, this paper explores the user needs of garment steamers, analyzes and studies the shape, function, material and structure of garment steamers, and obtains garment steamers that are closer to the actual needs of users. Machine products, so as to achieve the goal of reasonable and healthy development of garment steamer products.
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