The Furniture Design and Research Based on the

Concept of Appeal
Liu Yong-xiang, Li Jie

Abstract The furniture is the essential companion of people’s treatments to life and attitudes towards technology,
human’s lives and works, and is the important constituent of
indoor environment. In order to adapt to the needs of diverse making people to truly enjoy the convenience brought about
aesthetic values, the appearance of modern furniture should pay by scientific and technological progress.
great attention to the use of space, and should emphasize on the
concept of appeal design. Like humanization design, the appeal
design embodies more human concerns and the personalized  HOW TO UNDERSTAND THE APPEAL DESIGN
design in a deeper level. The appeal design is also the important
content of high appeal design that people pursue in our A Connotation of the appeal design
information age. In this paper, we will explore the new trends of
furniture design by researching the role of the concept of appeal The appeal design is a kind of creativity tool for product
in furniture design, anglicizing appeal design’s content and designers to express their understanding of humanization
characteristic, combining with the information age
humanization design concepts. factors. The appeal design mainly displays in mental aspect,
Keyword   furniture products  appeal design  is the psychology supplement to the modern crowd. By
product design
interest shape, structure or handling characteristics, alleviates
the tense of busy rhythm of modern life.
 INTRODUCTION
In information age, the appeal design is same with the user
S INCE the British Arts Movement and Germany Bauhaus,
The product design researches are many take reducing the
friendly design, has manifested human concern and human
care in a deep level. It’s not a style or a trend fashion, but is a
cost and batched production as the premise. As the 20th
human creation activity, is the interpretation of designer’s life
century industrial production and the rapid development of
observation and understanding, is the designers’ language
commercial organizations, people more and more enjoy the
tool to express their thought and a way to communicate with
tremendous changes brought by low cost and batched product
the product users. It’s humorous and interesting, makes
manufacture. Just like the famous controversy of
people to be easier to accept the designer’s idea expressed in
standardization and individuality by Wilder and Mute Hughes.
the works. As early as in handicraft activity period, the appeal
Faced with the familiar line of products and design style, the
concept has been accompanied by different design styles
modern design loses not only the exterior or the high-quality,
appearing in front of people. But the meaning of appeal
but also personality and interest.
design varies in different time and styles; and it also has
Judged good or bad products, people more rely on the
different feeling, performance, design language and
perceptual factors. From this perspective, cold and
corresponding trend.
mechanical taste product has violated the flavor of human
In the modern commercial environment, a product to be
natural, also does not conform to human's physiological and
successful, in addition to has features of practical,
psychological habits. Humanized design is the current
people-oriented, fitting environment, but also consider the
advocacy in our high-tech era, people almost become visual
market economic factors, this is the basic premise of modern
fatigue to the products in markets. They desire for distinctive
commercial design. The appeal design needs to draw close to
product feelings, which can satisfy the human-machine
the life, but not all the goods can be annotated by a relaxed
interaction, release people’s pressure brought by high-tech.
way, for example, to fill humorous decoration on a rational
The appeal design lives from this, devotes in improving

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high-tech instrument, somewhat is nondescript. The appeal
design should not deviate from the low cost design standard
and positioning context.
B Factors of appeal design
The appeal design uses frequently the way to add profound
impression of the lovable image of life, humorous things,
ridiculous moves into products, make it easier to access and
use, and to experience the fun of life. The structure of appeal
design should serve for its function, explain or deduce
product production some kind of structure principle key in a
ingenious and succinct way; Then the appeal appearance
mainly be manifested by so-called “the dielectric”, to reflect
the legend and
psychological feelings
of people while
discussing products’
character, style and
color; The interesting
of use process is to
make a product’s
identify systems and use methods more interesting.
Regardless of which kind of appeal design factor, all should
in line with serve the product function objective, use succinct
modern product semantics to guide users, avoid attaching
irrelevant functions which are far from basic function.
Outstanding product design often has a profound cultural
foundation. If there is no culture to be used as the basis,
discuss the innovation and design all is empty. The appeal
design precisely manifests one culture, or a national humanity
spirit, or the trend of prevailing fashion, only such products
embody subtle, profound and fashionable.
C Application of appeal design
With the upgrade of people's living conditions and
aesthetic concepts, the appeal concept is becoming more and
more widespread in the product design. The so-called appeal
concept is not a particular item, rather than reflect of
consumer’s demand, which have a certain
appreciation value, can increase people's life appeal and
physical and mental pleasure. Appeal products not only have
aesthetic appearance, but also have very practical value, and
can interact with consumers fully.
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The appeal concept starts in the office supplies, but it
appears quite much in household items. With the rapid
development of technology, the appeal design gradually
infiltrate into the high-tech areas. It display high-tech
products by a more concise and cordial design language that
both strengthen the affinity products, and significantly reduce
the people’s tension and fear feelings towards high-tech
products. In the original design of traditional products,
especially furniture, the concept of appeal is becoming more
and more widespread. As shown in figure 1, the design of
chairs, depends on different appeal position, all has obtained
the ideal visual effect and the use function.
Fig 1 Appeal design of chairs
 FUMITURE DESIGN ELEMENTS EXPLORED
A Environmental factors in furniture design
Furniture is an important component of the indoor
environment, is inseparable. Furniture products have dual
functions, in addition to have the inherent functions of sitting,
lying, rely on, storage, but also have specific material and
spiritual functions.
At the beginning of furniture design we should study each
kind of environment fully, and consider the environment in
design. Designers are not artists, but precisely the workers of
service industry, and have in-depth experience of life, need to
consider the needs and feelings of consumers. In furniture
design, we should not only fix on the size to meet functional
requirements, but also give full consideration to the space
required for user’s posture, movements and repair, in addition
to considering factors such as objects, movement routes, and
artistic channels.
B Spiritual and cultural factors impact on the furniture
design
 People in different countries and regions have their own
traditional culture, particular way of life, living structures,
and unique indoor environment. To this end, furniture design
is not just structure, shape, color or a form of game, but
should be given full consideration to the specific
circumstances and cultural. The furniture design should have
clear market positioning, conform to the time characteristic;
Furthermore, designers should have fully experience of
society, history and cultural, can express people’s emotional
needs using design language or design semantics, this also is
the goal which the appeal product’s spirit function should
achieve. As shown in
figure 2, the two
chairs on the left,
although have full
interpretation of
appeal design, but
they are used in
different environment;
Fig 2 Environment and cultural factors in furniture design
the chairs on the right
fully display the design features in composite materials era.
 APPEAL FUMITURE DESIGN
A The origin of appeal design
The aspirations of people from owning a house, to living in
very comfortable environment, and then to the pursuit of
humanization, fully displays the people's constant pursuit of
high living quality. Furniture design plays such a role to
create appeal space for all aspects of life, add happiness to
home life, and give the boring and monotonous home life.
In our country, furniture design has a long history. In Ming
dynasty, furniture has fine materials, superb craftsmanship,
exemplary enough to allow younger generation proud.
However, functional advantages do not mean shape
advantages, the global wave of humanization design, make
people to re-examine the new trend in furniture design.
People begin to inject appeal concept to furniture and
increase affinity to the products. And then the furniture can
communicate with people with an appeal language, achieve
the goal of exchanging friendly with people, and make the
users have extremely delicate feelings.
Appeal design not only means fantastic shape or excellent
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color, but also embodies a unique personality. It would meet
the characteristics of high-tech era and consumer attitudes,
show a humanistic spirit, and make people and products in
perfect harmony.
B Humanization trend of future living space
Future living space will be user-friendly, meet all the live
function, be a spacious, flexible, private and natural
environment associated with outside space. With the
improvement of social productivity, the social services will
become more and more perfect; people will have more leisure
time to stay in houses. Therefore, the internal space and
residential environment is very important, the function has
changed from pure residential space to places meet all the
needs of personality development, such as leisure, fitness,
learning, work, social, and so on. Therefore, designers should
create a rich and dynamic indoor space to meet denizens’
spiritual, material, physiological and psychological needs.
People do not only live, but also enjoy their lives.
Future-oriented furniture design should also base on such
factors to create pleasant home environment.
C The trends of furniture design
In recent furniture design, we find that cross-areas design
and jumping out pure home design is the future furniture
trend. Home design material increasingly weak, cool looking
design and application of new materials will occupy the
future mainstream. What’s more, fashionable, bold, fun
furniture concept is becoming more and more popular. There
is a growing pursuit of high-quality and natural materials, and
stress refined and comfortable life. But no matter what style it
is, humanization, interesting furniture design is increasingly
becoming the mainstream. Whatever shape, color or material,
it will have strong artistic influence.
Big color block and colorful images combined in a series
of furniture has become a major fashion trends. Various real sense to improve people's home life. In the face of fierce
irregular patterns and abstract decoration is the major market competition, and in the wave of economic feelings,
characteristic of trend of furniture
development. The trend of appeal furniture
has already been revealed. In the
international market, furniture design styles
vary and embody details of people’s lives;
Designers has considered lots of humanity
aspects, not only the body size, but people’s
psychological and cultural awareness. New
generation growing up in the globalization
environment have the same lifestyle and
consumer spaces, for example, jeans,
McDonald, pop music, cartoon comics, the
Internet, and so on. They have experience of
modern life, and pursue novelty, special and
personality. Therefore, the current furniture
style is fashion, pop-oriented, as shown in
figure 3.

Fig 3 Classification of appeal chair

 CONCLUSION
In the beginning of product design time,
perhaps all the products could meet the most basic need as
long as they were designed, and could be termed outstanding
humanization design. But, with the acceleration of social
civilization, and the escalating human needs, people in
different ages and levels have their own demand. They are
increasingly becoming fastidious and meticulous: young
consumers to buy goods to maintain a dynamic personality
and youthful vigor; elderly consumers are nostalgia with a
deep sense of calm and a sense swallowed vicissitudes to
purchase goods, so the appeal products become the
irreplaceable choice. Thus the appeal design is inevitable and
necessary, and their prospects are extremely broad and
beautiful. As the emerging consumer driven, appeal products
lead a significant change in product design. In the field of
furniture design, their prospects seem broader. For the
development of China's furniture industry is not perfect or
balanced, market demand is large, appeal products can in a
we should explore new aesthetic taste, use patterns, structure,
color and feelings, add the appeal concept into furniture
design, accelerate the development of innovative, and explore
the new round of design change.
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