Development trend of product design theory and method and modern design of products

WEN Bangchun
(School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110004, China)

Abstract: Design of products is the “soul” of product quality and it can make very important influence on the quality of products. Besides this, it can also make the influence on the manufacturing cost, productive period, environment condition and service after sell of products. Human society has entered the “knowledge economic” age, product design theory and method have varied correspondingly according to change of the age, and the mode of product design has changed from traditional to modern, so that if the product research, development and design also used according to the traditional design mode, then the designed product will behind the times and could not be satisfied the requirement of the age. The modern design mode of products has been discussed.
Key words: product design theory and method; traditional design mode; modern design mode