Abstract: China's office furniture market is in a growing period. Through the market research, product research, user research and design trend analysis of the office furniture, the design strategy for the service enterprises has been developed in the middle and long term. And on this basis, the design of a office furniture, the design is low cost design, but also in functional and aesthetic aspects of a breakthrough.
Key words: office furniture design research
No. in the middle of the chart: TB472
Document identification code: A
Article number: 1003-0069 (2015) 10-0128-02
China office furniture market is growing at a rate of 10% per year, according to data released by the China Furniture Association, China furniture industry in 2010 GDP reached 7300 billion yuan, civil furniture accounted for 70%, office furniture accounted for 30%, the office furniture industry in a very good gold period. This project is entrusted by the local enterprises, based on the existing technical conditions, for the development of office furniture products, to meet the needs of modern enterprise office.
An overview of the office furniture market
Office furniture consumption is mainly concentrated in the two categories of consumer groups: business and government. The high-end consumer groups such as Europe and the United States multinational companies in China enterprises, government agencies, banks, etc. office space is foreign furniture industry giants such as Herman. Miller, Haworth, Hni such as enterprise products to occupy. Although China's furniture exports have reached US $20 billion, but most of them are on the lower end of the road, a lot of furniture manufacturing enterprises are only low-cost manufacturing base of foreign brands, the cost advantage is lost every year. At present, there are no where home office furniture company can account for 1% of the office furniture GDP share, foreign mature market of the top three brands accounted for more than 30% of the market share, such as 2001 American Steelcase turnover of nearly 24 billion RMB, Japanese kokuyo also 180 billion yuan. At the same time, in recent years, the downturn in the European and American markets are forcing the export enterprises to look back to carve up the domestic market, exacerbated by the competition between enterprises.
Office furniture sales channel has experienced the development process from furniture stores, brand independent stores to the store in the store. With the popularity of the Internet business, sales of office furniture store has been a huge impact on the internet. The design of office furniture has experienced the development process from popularization, differentiation, customization to individuation. Personalized (optional) services will be completed by the network and by the consumer directly involved in the joint design, product competition from the service consciousness of competition to service technology competition. Low profit era, the product life cycle is gradually shortened, the enterprise needs differentiated business strategy, creative and characteristic furniture enterprises to maintain strong growth momentum.
Two office furniture product research
The bottleneck of furniture design lies in the variety of materials and structure of furniture products, and the innovation of furniture design depends on the material and structure. The following is the research and analysis of the related factors of office furniture product design:
1 office furniture function and material factors
Series of office furniture functional components are generally: office partition, staff table, desk, desk, conference table, file cabinet, etc. six parts. Office furniture material involved is very extensive, common plate with particle board, blockboard or PVC plate; commonly used material for steel plate, aluminum alloy plate, glass and other; commonly used pipe for aluminum alloy profile, steel pipe, commonly used modified materials have barbed wire, artificial leather, cloth, rubber and so on.
2 office furniture structural elements
Furniture structure that is the combination of furniture components and connections, it depends on the development of materials and processes, such as metal furniture, plastic furniture, rattan furniture, wood furniture, etc. have their own structural design features. Furniture structure by the material properties of the relatively large, at the same time to take into account the cost of manufacturing and process conditions, as well as the need for modeling style. Different types of furniture can have the same structural design, such as Chinese traditional furniture commonly used tenon and mortise structure can be used to support the furniture such as seating and storage furniture such as cabinets. Different materials of the furniture is usually have different structures, such as steel and wood furniture, solid wood furniture, rattan furniture can have a completely different structure. Therefore, office furniture structural design consider usually in the selected materials.
3 office furniture ergonomic factors
Office furniture in the human need to consider the performance of the main factors: appropriate desktop height, size and capacity of the knee space; with elbow supporting plate on the desktop is more humanized; right of screen height and material, relatively isolated and convenient communication; drawer handles humanized design; desktop items placed design; humanized design to facilitate the use of computers, including wiring box position, host box position, cooling hole, plug the USB flash drives.
4 office furniture modular consideration
The traditional furniture is made of parts and components, but the modular furniture is made of modules. A module is a unit that can be composed of a system with good reusability and complete interface.
Furniture module partition is through to the furniture functional decomposition, will have identical or similar units separated by using modularization principle of unified, merging, simplified form with specific functions and the interface structure of general independent units, or modules. Modular design requirements follow the general principles, the principle of exchange, the series of principles. The straight line cutting of the furniture plate should consider the modulus problem. The curve cutting should consider the problem of reducing the utilization of the waste and the waste.
Three office furniture User Research
The project of user research mainly launches from three aspects, for office clerks, managers, business person in charge of the interview, the second is the office furniture, the use of questionnaire survey, scene photos of different office environment analysis. Found that users in the use of office furniture in the course of the problems followed by:
1 items of confusion: clothes, cups, carry bag, trash cans, paper towels, bonsai and other belongings without attribution
2 technical communication between the team is not convenient: if the engineers to interact and discuss the product structure
3 desktop height can not adapt to the different height of the human body size
4 sitting in the office for a long time to cause low back muscle pain
5 power line network line data confusion
6 USB plug is not convenient
Office furniture is more than just a computer desk, it is a microcosm of the office staff in the company of a small. Therefore, in the process of office furniture design, we must fully consider the use of functional, more than the problems found in the customer survey is an important reference for office furniture design.
Four office furniture design trends
The Internet has brought about a disruptive change to our life, and it is also a revolutionary influence on the office environment. All kinds of creative companies, small and micro enterprises have sprung up in a variety of industrial parks, office furniture design also corresponding to the following design trends:
(1) style: color, style and bold use of creative theme design behind furniture. If the fret, moire, octagonal pavilion and other Chinese elements into the design, or to simple, non symmetric and even exaggerated geometry to emphasize the sense of presence.
(2) modular: the panels to different shapes of the paired with a different material and shape of the legs of the table, host computer cabinets, table file cabinet, drawer cabinets, vertical file cabinet and other functional modules to achieve the combination of multiple functions, to meet the different needs of the office.
(3) intelligence of: gently press can be all automatically locked drawer, offices to implement electronic control touch screen, to achieve space scene lighting setup of memory remote controller, touch induction bomb open the cabinet: easy lifting Sunon I-WORK head table etc..
(4) flexibility: mobile office, within the limited office space, according to work requirements will be independent of the office into a large conference room, conference table will be independent of the desk, the office furniture will be very easy to recombinant. The core concept of flexible office furniture is the maximum utilization of resources, which brings the diversity of the combination of office furniture.
Five design ideas
Based on the above research and Analysis on the market of office furniture, office furniture, office furniture, office furniture design trends, such as, under the premise of full communication with the enterprise, for the enterprise to develop ideas as follows:
Six design practice
The first design for the "low cost design", the specific design and positioning of the above table. After sketch, sketch evaluation, 3D modeling and rendering, effect drawing review, design depth, scene rendering and other links, and ultimately determine the effectiveness of the program as shown below.
This is a combination of staff table design, product name in English as "jejec", is the Chinese name "BBK" English translation. The design concept is as follows:
Form: the product is in line with straight line and broken line as the basic modeling line, concise and dignified, in line with the development trend of modern office furniture.
Color: the design of the main white color, auxiliary to deep gray, to create a clean and quiet atmosphere, with a sense of quality. Add green low black and white main color screen, bring a touch of vitality and bright colors for the elegant and tidy office environment.
Function: for each employee is equipped with a high level of cabinets, with two drawers, two layer shelf. The lower layer is suitable for placing books, personal articles and other debris; the upper layer can be placed bonsai, or communicate with colleagues. Strip line groove is opened on the inner surface of the host cabinet to charge a mobile phone or headset lines access; computer power line from the cabinet side circular slot access, to ensure the integrity of the work table.
Materials: the design of the desktop materials for the lower prices of laminates, in accordance with the requirements of low cost design. The table support frame is a steel tube, the table legs with plate bending, do not need additional accessories and die, also meet the requirements of low cost design.
epilogue
The design and development of any kind of product is based on the deep understanding of the product. In office furniture design and development process, the limitations of the material itself limits the modeling of products degrees of freedom (such as the desktop and the cabinet should be plate), and diversification of materials and structures, an increase of the difficulty of design research and design. This article only in the office furniture design has made some shallow attempt, hoped that can provide the certain reference for the related designers.