Culture-inspired design principles, methods and tools in current products

Abstract

Every nation has their unique and rich cultural background which is a valuable resource of inspiration.How to apply this resource into product design will be discussed in this study.We will also review previous work in this area.This paper first reviews design guidelines and principles in culture-based design literature and then conducts case studies to see the applications of cultural elements in culture-inspired products.The cultural characteristics and design rules were then categorized and analyzed.Therefore, the aims of this study are: (1) to classify cultural elements from product design applications, (2) to identify and interpret the design principles, methods, tools being used and (3) finally to deduce culture-inspired design guidelines based on Grounded Theory.The research contribution has been three-fold: firstly, we classified cultural elements into three categories: artefacts, nature, and spirit by studying the literature.Some design guidelines are found, but they are quite vague for designers to apply.Secondly, from our case studies of cultural products in the market, we created mappings between classified culture elements and the corresponding design principles, methods and tools.. Based on this mapping, a set of design guidelines for each type of culture element has been developed.This research is an on-going PhD work, therefore our future work is to evaluate and verify our proposed design guidelines and develop them further.

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