Happiness design: Positive psychology in the design field

With the continuous development of positive psychology in recent years, its concepts and research results have also begun to be applied in the design field. The core of positive psychology is to emphasize the need to focus on the subjective happiness of individuals or groups, to cultivate the harmonious development of human and society by cultivating positive experience, positive personality quality, and positive social systems. In a certain sense, this positive concept is the core of value and need to be reflected in the pursuit of modern design. Therefore, in the design, the sense of happiness is both a positive psychology and a theoretical and practical topic facing design sciences.

Happiness design is the product of contemporary design and positive psychology

Happiness design refers to the design of architecture, products, clothing, advertisements, etc., which should focus on improving people's happiness, emphasizing the overall unity of visual aesthetics, use function and spiritual connotation. Happiness design is both reflected in the results and design results, but also in design methods and design ideas. It is a new product that integrates the integration of contemporary design to achieve the ultimate goal of creating a better life. For example, the "Endless Bridge" love plan is an important case of happy design. Based on the terrain of the remote and poor villages in China, the design and construction team uses modern materials such as steel plates and stone cages to build a fast, cheap and strong net bridge. Let more than 60,000 villagers walk out of the village safely and conveniently, thereby significantly improved the happiness of local villagers. Happiness designs make people's beautiful lives and visualization, so that happiness can be visible and touched.

First of all, happiness design is the needs of social development, that is, the happiness design is the product of the iterative development of social material technology civilization in a certain sense. The material products of contemporary society are already very rich, but the side effects of material wealth are also obvious: unusual material life has caused some people (especially young people) to be empty and "lying down", which means The satisfaction of the material world cannot completely make up for the lack of people's spiritual world. Not only that, today's society also often faces crises and challenges such as viruses, wars, poverty and other aspects. Happiness design is standing in the dimension of human destiny, emphasizing that the design of people's inner sense of identity, belonging and pride is triggered by design. This is both the need for social development and the inevitable historical development.

Secondly, happiness design is the needs of the development of the design discipline. Modern design is developed by Bauhaus (Bauhaus is a German bauhaus, which originally refers to the name of a arts and crafts school in the Weima Republic in Germany, and gradually became a major design system), but in the new era In the situation, the connotation and extension of modern design have undergone tremendous changes. It can grow, sustainable, and renewable promoting a happy life has evolved into an important concept of modern design. Therefore, starting from the dimension of human development, exploring the unity of human material and spiritual civilization and ultimately helping people to reach the happiness design of the other side of a happy and beautiful life is naturally the first choice. Happiness design is not just a simple concept superposition, but with the core value of happiness, giving full play to the function, emotional effects, and moral effects of design, so as to achieve the design of happiness. The tentacles of happy design have now extended to multiple disciplines such as philosophy, psychology, sociology, economics, and medicine.

Enhance people's happiness through happiness design

Many scholars in foreign design theoretical circles are exploring the methods of happy design, and are applied to the fields of architectural design, environmental design, product design, software development and design. For example, Pertti Saariluoma proposed "designing for life", emphasizing that the elements of the design should serve the happy life of human beings. Zhang Junmin and others published a research on the "Advanced Materials Research" in 2012. Through the comprehensive analysis of the university students' happiness index, researchers found the living function, learning function, traffic function, and entertainment function of the campus building environment. The strength will greatly affect the happiness of college students. Pophai Pimprapa and others published a study in 2019 in the ACM International Conference Proceeding Series in 2019 that it can effectively enhance children's creative thinking through gaming scene design. And learning fun. In addition, George Moore and others published a so -called "custom emotional technology" design based on the "ACM International Conference Paper Collection" in 2017, trying to increase the mobile phone to remind the participants with a regular smile and improve Its sense of happiness. Domestic scholar Sun Yixian 2010 "Happy Design Research" published in "New Fine Arts" proposed that happiness design is new methods, new courses, new disciplines, and new education models. This paper systematically sort out the relevant concepts of happiness design. Chen Qingjun's article "Design for Happiness" published in "Packaging Project" in 2019 proposes a specific method of happiness design, mainly in the design, ability development design, positive psychological method design, and design for life.

In general, the current research on happy design is mainly based on the overall concept, content, and layers of happiness design. The introduction of happy design methods is concentrated in some design segments. Essence In fact, happiness design should start from many aspects such as design change, design empowerment, happiness visualization, etc., and discuss a set of universal, interdisciplinary multi -dimensional design models. First, establish the values ​​of happy design. First of all, we must improve the awareness of happiness design, use happiness design as the theoretical method and ultimate goal of design, use design to make life better, let people get a positive spiritual experience from it, and feel care, warmth and hope. For example, the design team of the Forbidden City uses happiness design as a value orientation. The designer uses regional culture, national culture, and the collection of the Palace Museum's collections to refine classic characters, patterns, poems, paintings and other processing. Incense, cosmetics, jewelry, sculpture. This design that meets the aesthetic needs and functional needs of modern people has successfully stimulated the sense of national pride and cultural identity of the Chinese people, which has triggered spiritual resonance and cultural resonance.

Second, choose and create a happy design tool. The way of happiness in the positive psychology community is also applicable to happiness design. For example, George Moore measured the happiness generated by using mobile software through the Lyubomirt Siter's subjective happiness table in the above -mentioned mobile phone custom emotional technology project. The design of the design science puts forward the theory of emotional design for product design. Don Norman put forward three levels of emotional design in the book "Emotional Design" in 2004: instinctual level, behavioral level, and reflection level. Instinct level pays attention to the aesthetic function of the product, allowing people to gain a sense of pleasure in visual and tactile sensory. For example, the designs of the Forbidden City mentioned above are to enhance people's sensory enjoyment; Convenient, such as the basic purpose of the mobile phone is communication, coupled with other auxiliary functions, which enriches the use of the mobile phone; reflection level pays attention to the connotation value of the product and makes it meaningful. For example, it is also a bowl. The bowl contains different connotative values, and different patterns will give people different cultural feelings. Combined with the above psychology and design research tools and methods, happiness design can be carried out through the combination of quantitative research and qualitative research. Creating a happy design tool is the future development direction. Kiel Danger Mutschelknaus is a multi -disciplinary artist. He developed the SPACETYPEGENARATORTO that automatically generates the use of code. Websites present many interactive and generative happiness designs. Similar creative programming software also has Touch Design. The TeamLab design team creates a TeamLab exhibition with a binding, light, and electricity virtual reality scene through this software, making people come to nature, universe, ocean and other illusions. Positive feelings such as movement and awe. As a design tool, this generation and interactive creative programming has been transformed and upgraded from early programming code to visual operation, which greatly reduces learning difficulties and enhances participation.

Third, promote happiness design education. On the one hand, the design school community proposes to open a happy design university, advocating promotion of happiness design education, so that everyone will understand and participate in happy design. The sense of happiness is obtained by actively participating in design activities. As the design tools are becoming more and more intelligent and visual, everyone's participation in design has become possible. On the other hand, happiness design, as an artistic form, can become a spiritual treatment tool in family and work. Emily Corrigan Kavanagh et al. Published in an article published in the Journal of Design Research in 2018, artistic design therapy is an important tool for exploring family happiness design. In the future, it may become an important tool for happy design in the working environment. It is one of the important methods of artistic healing during art design and creation.

In the field of design in the future, the concept of happy design will become the core value of the design field. Happiness design is not only a new driving force for the current social development, but also an inevitable way for the human mind to gain happiness, or the value leadership of the value of the global ecological crisis and social changes in the world.

(Author Unit: Arts and Creative College of Jinhua Vocational and Technical College, Zhejiang Province)

Source: China Social Science Network-Journal of Social Sciences of China

Author: unveiled puzzle

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