User Experience Design Research of New Types of Home Appliances Based on the Analysis of the Learning Curve of the Elderly

Based on the learning curve of the elderly, this paper analyzed the user experience design of new types of home appliances. Firstly, it gave an introduction to user experience design and its social meaning. On the basis of the special characteristics of the elderly, the user experience design of the new types of small home appliances will bring great convenience to the elderly. Secondly, this paper analyzed the user experience design of home appliances used by the elderly. At present, due to the problem of excessive functions, complex operation and “younger tendency” of small home appliances in the market, it conducted an analysis of the physical and psychological factors of decreased learning ability of the elderly by making use of these problems. Then this paper illustrated the necessity of the elderly to use user experience design. At last, it put forward the principles of easy operation, easy function, humanization and fault tolerance according to the problems encountered by the elderly when they use new types of home appliances.