Will the new hardware boom be a development opportunity for industrial design?

New hardware requires a new industrial design language.

This year the market appeared a lot of new hardware, all kinds of wrist strap do not say, there are a number of features of the product, called the new hardware first. The boom in new hardware has also contributed to the change in human-computer interaction, which I expect will be a development opportunity for industrial design. The reasons are as follows:

1. The development of industrial design has a great relationship with manufacturing. The rapid development of new hardware requires a large number of industrial designers, just as the development of the Internet led to the rise of interactive design.

2. Industrial design will receive greater financial input. The traditional manufacturing profit margin is much lower than the internet, for the design of a relatively low concern, many manufacturers directly take foreign products to dismantle and copy. It can be expected that the Internet companies to make the money to do hardware, the future rely on services to earn more profits.

3. The idea of the Internet will affect industrial design. The internet has many excellent ideas, for the design of a higher degree of attention, "user-centric" and other excellent design thinking will affect industrial design.

4. The overall experience of the product requires industrial design. User experience is not just interface design, hardware and packaging are also important, such as wearable design must be fashionable, unlike mobile phones are rectangular "box".

5. Establishing a brand requires industrial design. In the short term, enterprises such as millet can rely on marketing and cost-effective sales products, the future to establish brand image, industrial design is absolutely indispensable. Fewer competitors, by function and price to win, when the emergence of many competitors, industrial design will become a part of the core competitiveness of enterprises. Apple is a good example.

The Bauhaus school, which had a great influence on industrial design, first appeared in Germany in the early 20th century, when Germany was at the stage of rapid industrial development, and Gropius, the Bauhaus founder, believed that only the most brilliant thought could justify the multiplication of industry. Now the new hardware boom may also be a new design genre and idea.