On the necessity of emotional design of children's furniture

【Abstract】：this article selects children furniture that the specific product related to children often life， as a carrier of the specific analysis of emotional design， this paper discusses the necessity of emotional design of children furniture.

1.Emotional design is the children's psychological and emotional needs

（1）Children's psychological characteristics and the emotion demand analysis

Based on the investigation to the children's attitude to life and daily life， can be summed up the following characteristic： the dependency： chapter son must be cared for by their parents， can't live independently. Independence： dress， act， hobbies will be influenced by their peers， a variety of media， and so on factors， finally form their own personality. Surrounding the children hope they can get their parents， adults as well as peer group identity， this performance in they want their learning， be fond of and so on all aspects of life.

（2）Children furniture design for children's emotional impact

Design of excellent children's products to help children healthy growth at the same time， should also be beneficial to the psychological development of children. Let them in the process of using feel good interactivity， in the beautiful and loving environment edification happily and grow up healthily.

Such as imitation of nature of form and turn it into in the design of children furniture， children furniture is one of the important performance of emotional design. This kind of emotional design way of catering to the most curious about the nature of plants and animals and loved children psychology， make it have a natural affinity.

2. Emotional design is mature children furniture design requirements

（1）The influence of emotional design of children furniture stylist

Now with more attention paid to the emotional design at home and abroad. It became the important principles in the design of children furniture and theory. So the designer must to children's psychological characteristics and the emotion demand and emotional design to fully study and understand. Emotional design helps to cultivate the designer's responsibility and improve the professional level of designer. So it encourages designers to go into the children's daily life， to understand the psychological and emotional needs of children placed in the furniture.

（2）The influence of emotional design of children furniture market

Children's purchase behavior mainly influenced by emotional motivation， show the impulse and instability， such as innovation， aggressive， curiosity can contribute to the buying behavior of children. And children's furniture design emotional products functional diversity， strange appearance modelling， conforms to the children's new， strange， and active psychological characteristics. Therefore， only to meet the children's emotional needs of children furniture of emotional design to attract their interest.

3. Children furniture design the important role of emotional factors

（1）The form emotions make the children's lives more interest

Children are children furniture users， and modelling of affinity is one source of emotions.

For children furniture emotional design， the modelling of affinity comes from the two points：

It is close to nature. Children's curiosity is very strong， it will become one of the most important way of acquiring knowledge. Designers need to use various means to external form into the product of nature， let children find the natural sense of intimacy from furniture， with trees and flowers， natural sky， all kinds of animals， such as for the prototype design， to meet the emotional needs of the chapter and naivety.

The second is the game fun. Children's world is easy and pleasant. Through the use of the game， interesting way to arouse children's emotion， make furniture and the user can communicate better. So emotional design can let the child's life is full of creativity and surprise， let the children in the daily life of casual experience the fun of life.

（2）The emotional material to make the children furniture more tasteful

The children furniture with different materials can express different feelings bound， each kind of material is with emotion.

Natural materials provide pleasant natural features， more suitable for the use of people， can provide better in physical and psychological comfort. Natural materials with unique natural flavor， that is. Later on the sense of smell can also affect the senses. People love of natural materials， reflects the deep psychological emotional need， be a sign of perceptual regression design.

Artificial materials appeared later than natural materials. It's very good make up for the defects at the same time also brought a revolution in the concept of performance and， let the children's home with the richer and more exaggerated performance. Through mutual collocation， natural materials and artificial materials further perfection of the design of the product

（3） Color emotional reveal personality makes children furniture

In children furniture， colour is particularly important to the emotional， colour is more cognitive sense and for children. It not only directly affects the children's senses， stir up their children's feelings change， also more can excite the imagination of children. Different color can cause children's emotion， such as green， can cause children to nature yearning； Red will life of children's enthusiasm： blue is the colour of dreamy， so children furniture design of emotional color choice with bright， relaxed， cheerful to choose way. So the emotional color makes children furniture reveal different personality， conforms to the children's psychological characteristics and emotional needs.