Experience Design for University Students’ Domestic Waste Management Based on Usability Analysis

Abstract

Managing personal domestic waste is a very important part of people’s daily life behavior, and inappropriate management style will bring multiple negative impacts on people’s life. In the research field of domestic waste management, existing researches mainly focus on material processing, recycling and system, but lack of analysis on users’ life management, behavior analysis and product use, resulting in a single research perspective in this field. This study takes it as the focus of analysis, demonstrating the importance of analyzing users’ life, behavior and product use in the research of domestic waste management. The principle of the experience design is to improve the user’s usability of garbage bags by combining the use of WeChat, so that the users can develop their habit of changing garbage bags every day. It verifies that usability is a special and important perspective to analyze user requirements, which can further improve the design quality. In the design process with user experience as the core, the analysis of users’ product usability can indeed help designers better understand users’ potential needs in life management, behavior and experience. In addition, by changing the user’s product usability, the user’s experience in personal domestic waste management can be changed, providing a theoretical basis for the application of usability in user experience design. This paper involves a variety of innovative design methods in the process of usability analysis, which overcomes the limitation of cost and time of traditional analysis methods. This analysis method has methodological reference significance for the application of user experience design in terms of university students’ domestic waste management.