Study on Low Carbon Product Design from the perspective of New Lifestyle

Taking new lifestyle as a breakthrough perspective for innovative design, ways to merge the Low carbon concept into industrial design method are studied in terms of the design investigation, design orientation, design concepts, and the modeling design and so on. A clear definition of Lifestyle was proposed, then, the method of measuring Lifestyle model was constructed by VIO scale. As a very typical representative, the post-80's the lifestyle was analyzed who proved the main small-household electrical appliances consumer groups. "Mi-sa" washing machine design as an example verified the effectiveness, practicality and innovativeness of the method. The result show that the low-carbon industrial design in the true sense should depend on the modern lifestyle and consumer habits.