New perspective on product design in the period of low carbon economy

In the present paper, the author presents more reasonable and more comprehensive location on product design by analyzing the characteristics of low carbon economy time, she puts forward Four-dimensional product design standards consisting of practical, aesthetic, emotional and ecological standards which accord with the economic development model and she also proposes “from Pregnancy to the afterlife” ecological view of product design and the Trouble Design method to assure the ecological dimension of product design. The aim of this article anticipates that the designer can conduct the consumers to consume reasonably through his/her products and to arouse the consumers´ environmental consciousness in order to realize green and peace all over the world and make human beings´life more nice.