Basis of Design-Canned Food

There are so many different kind of canned food in the market. No matter it is solid or liquid food, people can make it to become canned food. Canned food has a long history over many decades. Canned originally is dairy foods for soldier to eat during the war and urgent food for relieving people in stricken areas. Nowadays, as the society keep changing, canned foods become common food for every family. People seek to eat in a fast and simple ways. Therefore, the idea of canned food is easy to use also bring convenience to the costumers. The benefit is to save people's time to cook; they don't need to spend much time for the cooking preparation anymore, in order them to have a delicious meal in a short period.
The manufacture processes of making canned foods have to go though gas-separation, air-tight wrapping and disinfect. Canned are made of aluminum, which material characteristic is light, durable, lightweight, ductile and malleable metal with appearance ranging from silvery to dull gray, depending on the surface roughness, it is appropriate to store food. The canned on the top of the blog successfully  achieved productivity, which brought the idea of bring consumer convenience.

One of the important design processes is to evolutes same kind of the previous products, and knowing the product's advantages and disadvantages. Try to figure out the problems and solve them, in order to have its improve. The previous of the canned food package design, we need to use a can opener to help us open the cans, which is really inconvenience. Also the edge of the canned is really shape, people might easy to get hate when they was opening the canned. Therefore, nowadays many canned food company made many changes of the package. For instance, like the pulling key at the top of the soft drink cans. People can easily open it with their finger without using any tools. In which achieve the principles of ergonomics that the science of designing user interaction with equipment to fit the user.

Good design needs to be functional, reliability, usability, proficiency and creativity. Oppositely, bad design is not memorable and causes people feel confusing; users will easily feel difficulties with the products. As in this canned design, the worst problem is the surface design. Even though there are so many different brand, different size or shape, and different type of canned food, their outlook are all the same. That are really hard to recognize. For me to buy canned food in the market, I usually just picked the one with the highest prices. Since I think only the highest prices can have better food quality. The problem of this happens because the design didn’t use the surface of the can to publicize the product. Therefore, in order to catch users’ attention, it is better to make things differently and easy to identify. Even just redesign the outlook can make a big difference, that catch user's  attention.

Every people have their requirement of using the product. So before you get started to design, you have to think about the five areas of ergonomics research. Also whom are your target to design the product  and figure out what they needs.

PS: In spite of canned food are tasty, we should not eat too much. Since canned food is a manufacture food, over eating is not good for health.