With the rapid development of experience economy, manufacturing should provide
products and services which can satisfy the users. The product design evaluation methods and the
relationships with PLM were studied. The research actuality and deficiency of product user
experience were analyzed. To solve the problems which product design evaluation cannot be
implemented throughout the whole product life cycle and user experience cannot guide design
evaluation, product development process was divided into four stages based on the product lifecycle
management. The design evaluation requirements for every stage were researched, the evaluation
contents were analyzed with user experience methods, and the evaluation targets and missions were
summarized. So the model of PLM-oriented product design evaluation system based on user
experience was established. It proposed the direction of future research, and wished to guide the
development of PLM-oriented product design.