When designing an application, website, or product, three things can give users a more usable experience: focusing on users and tasks in advance, empirical measurement, and iterative design. As with the emergence of the graphical user interface era, in the mobile era, the same obstacles that affect usability design still exist. Follow users and tasks …
This topic has been discussed a few years ago, and there have been several PKs among friends. When I talked about it before, everyone agreed. With the continuous standing in line, everyone’s ideas have been very different. So, I want to discuss this topic again. My thoughts are related to my growth process. At first, I was …
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There is a popular saying in Internet circles called “subtraction”, especially “subtraction for products”. Generally speaking, some foreign services are used as benchmarks. For example, twitter is a very simple network service. But if we look at domestic network services a little bit, almost no successful product or service is “subtracting.” More than 90% of …
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There are often new recruits who can’t figure out the difference between a designer and other positions, such as a product manager. After answering a few times, I summarized the differences in two aspects, which can be briefly summarized as: skills and positioning. “Skills” refers to the designer’s ability to master the ability not possessed by …
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I have always believed that product design is a very subjective job. People have different opinions on the same product and the same function. There are no rules without rules. We will have some standards when we do a lot of things, even if these standards are judged from different perspectives. So after making products for so …
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Our products inevitably have to face two standards. As far as the product is concerned, it is given a price that exceeds expectations. For users, what they want the product to have is value beyond expectations. In order to balance the direct view of “price” between users and products, three steps can be taken to clarify ideas. …
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Some ideas are inconvenient to share in blogs, and there are too many issues to study. Focusing on practice, sharing hope in the future is all my own actual project experience. Blogging consumes energy and time is not as good as reading more information. Designer friends who have worked for three to five years feel that they …
Interactive prototype is an important output in the product development process. It not only determines the presentation layer form of the product, but also can better verify requirements and clarify product goals while visually displaying product functions. The establishment of an interactive prototype program usually comes from a joint review conducted by cross-departmental personnel. How to efficiently …
Many things in the world are not designed under the guidance of user-centered design methods, but these things still work very well. For example, in cars, people all over the world can learn to drive through similar operating devices. Let’s take a look at the various products around us, including scissors, axes, typewriters, mice, sporting goods, etc. …
Do you know how to operate business? Do you have the technical skills? Do you pay attention to the user experience of the product. Looking back, can you be called a real product manager? I often ask what position is a product manager, and what are their responsibilities? How to train a product manager? Marty …
Good design has the power to attract people. You will find that even those designs that look good can make people pay more premiums. But truly good design is to use unique perspectives and wisdom to continuously correct various loopholes in life, provide beauty to life, and of course, it can also help the company build its …
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MOVE it! PM & UE moving up – “from planning to design workflow.” The title sounds a bit frustrating. In fact, what I want to express is to allow more interaction between PM&UE, so that everyone can work in a complete process more clearly , efficiently and joyfully! Look at the catalog first: part1 A story leads to the embarrassment of PM&UE cooperation …
1. No repetitive design. 2. Do not repeat the design when doing repetitive design. 3. Don’t use elements that have already been used. 4. The used elements must be used without leaving a trace. 5. When there is really no idea, “copy” other people’s designs. 6, copy other people’s design must copy the other people’s …
Good product designers must learn to “consult with the majority, listen to the opinions of a few, and make their own decisions.” But I want to extend it to the outside of the product, to the users of the product, because your product is for people to use, not for product people’s self-entertainment, so, “Explore …
Here today, not as a designer, but from the perspective of an ordinary user, I will talk to you about the emotion contained in the design and the meaning of emotion in product design. “Emotions! What is emotion? Emotion is a part of attitude as a whole, and it is the attitude and experience of people …
