人們生活中所接觸到的各式產品，幾乎皆為自動化生產的工業產品。雖然此類產品擁有較低廉的價格與較高的實用性，但是使用者與產品之間，卻缺乏了互動與情感。另外，隨著都市化的發展人，們所能分配到的空間有限，產品不再是安裝完成後放在定點就好，漸漸有了移動性、收納性的考量。因此具有「可變型態」的產品，漸漸在市場上出現。
本研究首先探討可變性產品的基本定義，從自然生物的形體變化，到建築領域所提出的非靜態的建築，再導入產品設計的領域。藉由整理歸納產品可變性的操作手法與機械性變形的原則，並分析各項具有型態改變特色的個案，探究其產品的設計意圖、形變方式以及設計原則，了解可變性產品如何透過變形過程，與使用者相互影響。綜合文獻與個案中所提到的各個原則與手法，整理出可變性設計操作架構，做為創作時的參考依據。
本研究以產品設計的觀點切入，並以創作的形式呈現研究成果。依照歸納整理出來的可變性設計操作架構，將可變性產品分為設計目的、變形形式、與應用手法三個階層。以三件作品具體呈現設計目的中：功能切換、體形變化、創造組合這三個主要目的方向，分別為：
(一) 燈桌，運用操作桌面同時控制照明的手法，達到功能切換的目的。
(二) 等待完成，以材質特色讓使用者能自行定義花瓶造型，達到體形變化。
(三) 木林森，單一模組的拼接排列，創造空間分割，達到創造組合的目的。

Most of the products we use in daily lives are the result of mass production and automation. Those products surly are less pricy and more functional; however, there is a lack of interactions and emotions between users and products. On the other hand, due to the limited living space in our city, a product had better be more flexible for moving and storing. Therefore, "transformable products" found their niche and started to show up in markets.

This project, starting from defining "transformable products", discovering the transformations of natural creatures and the non-static architecture, is a journey of discovering how a designer can contribute to the territory that has not explored thoroughly.

By gathering the information of how transformable products works from ways of operation and rules in mechanical kinetics, studying projects featured with transformability and understanding the way of their transforming and the design principles, we may see the clues of how transformable products interact with users. The principles and ways of transforming are the backbone and reference for this practice-based research.

The results of this research reveal another dimension in transformable products based on the three-stage framework. They are notifying design targets, finding ways of transform, and lastly applying them to real production. Projects shown in this research represents the design intention of switching function, form transformation, and creative assembly respectively.

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