Title :
Marketing customized products: A discussion on the preference of color combinations
Author :
Yang-Chih Lin ; Chin-Yi Chen ; Yu-Ying Chang
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Bus. of Adm., Chung-Yuan Christian Univ., Taoyuan, Taiwan
Abstract :
Nowadays firms design personal products, that is, customized product s which included changing its color and material to fulfilled consumer diversified needs. The study focuses on exploring the relation between aesthetics lifestyle and color combination of the simple model of a cellular phone. The scale of aesthetics lifestyle is adopted in this study to investigate the consumers´ preferences of color combinations. The research result shows that: First, there are the correlations between monochrome, double-color, and tri - colored. Second, different type and matching colors of products won´t affect the choice of colors. Besides, the color preferences of the blocks on product want to highlight the block of trademark, but other blocks are only slightly differences.
Keywords :
consumer behaviour; ergonomics; product design; aesthetics lifestyle; cellular phone; color combination; color combinations; consumer needs; consumer preference; customized product marketing; personal product design; Color; Correlation; Image color analysis; Mobile handsets; Product design; Psychology; Standards;
Conference_Titel :
Management of Engineering & Technology (PICMET), 2014 Portland International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kanazawa