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title: Home Appliances
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# Design Guidelines for Home Appliances

## 1. Preface

Nowadays, smart home has become a go-to choice for people to improve their daily life. This smart era comes with overwhelming home appliances, ranging from large ones like air conditioners and refrigerators to small ones such as fans and humidifiers. These smart products reach almost every moment of routine life and serve people's needs across the board. In addition to product quality, impressive design and engaging experience are placed at the forefront to make your product stand out.

## 2. Emotional Design

A control panel is a hub that connects users to your smart product and centralizes operations in one place. In light of this, an optimal panel experience design plays a fundamental role in your product improvement. User experience design entails visual design, interaction design, emotional design, and more factors in combination. To enhance users' satisfaction with your product, you can optimize its user experience from the perspectives of functionality, usability, and pleasure in ascending order. In this three-tiered design framework, pleasure is given top priority. As a result, emotional design is the key to outstanding user experience.


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### 2.1 Implementation of emotional design
#### 2.1.1 Visual design


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#### 2.1.2 Functional design


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## 3. Optimized Layout

According to statistics, up to 49% of surveyed people are used to operating mobile phones with single hand in daily life. With large-screen mobile phones on the rise, the overall layout of each device control panel is adapted to users' habits. The operation area is expanded to the scope easily accessible with thumb. This way, over 90% of product features are controllable with one hand.

A control panel can be divided into sections for the following purposes: information display, operation and control, and bottom navigation. The visual layout of these sections can vary, depending on different product features. When you design the panel layout, keep the styles of all sections and components consistent. On this basis, you can extend and enrich each panel section with variable and innovative elements.


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## 4. Summary

In the competitive software market, emotional design receives unprecedented attention. An emotionally appealing and user-obsessed product is meant to be a trendsetter. Home appliances take up most life scenarios. In the design of device control panels, put user experience at the core and keep people's emotions in mind. This enables panels to become visually pleasing and emotionally satisfactory to users. Thus, you can deliver more captivating products and increase your market share.