Do UI designers need to understand technology?

Do UI designers want to understand technology? Nonsense, of course, Ah! How else would you turn your fantasies into reality? Everything the designer did before the actual output was "a beautiful fantasy", and it may not be pretty until the final output is real.

For example: In addition to painting, architects need not know how to build each stage of the building? Do you understand the characteristics and specifications of various materials? Do you need to be familiar with the local environmental restrictions?

But architects don't need to know how to drive a cement truck, do you need to operate a crane?

Did they end up with that stack of drawings? Who is going to look at the drawings, of course, the building of the entity Ah! That UI Designer final product why is mockup?

Understand technology

More often than not, a UI designer is required to hear that "pm/planner need not understand the technology. Why the PM best understand the reasons for the technology there are many articles on the web that have been mentioned.

As for my own and RD from the PM cooperation experience, can only use "relaxed happy" to describe, this kind of technical PM will never plan the skyscraper without beam and column. Cooperation with him can go all out, do not deliberately prepared prevent "can not be implemented" and the whole project turn around the situation occurred.

UI designers a lot of work will be placed on the previous planning flow, which is related to the product's operational logic, can be implemented, but at this stage to see the company to "Meimei map" priority, resulting in UI work is the art of doing.

　UI designers must understand technology

I mean "understand" technology, not "will" technology or "ripe" technology. Just a little bit of water.

For example, if IOS uses swift, it does not say that the UI learns the language of Swift itself, but at least know how it will be used by RD to make its own graphics.

The quickest way to learn how to make a picture of your own cut is to learn to write Html+css. If you can step into the responsive Web, it's not going to be a bad place to work with the UI designer. Because he has clearly made a picture of what needs to be considered and what kind of practice can be achieved. And he knows he doesn't know who to ask, how to seek answers, and don't worry too much about his mess.

　RD is not a designer's enemy.

Often hear the designer complain "that RD all day the Devil's Advocate, will only say this can not do, that also can not do."

How did not first think of their own unrestrained to come up with "creative" idea, but did not consider the reality, can only make Rd back to do? Have you ever thought that when Rd said more "Do not", will the old mention the idea of the same level as the grasshopper?

Have heard RD complained: "Dry!" said ride too 1 floor, directly cover 2 floor and 3 floor, is how many balloons I tied to play the outer wonders!" (This is overheard, it hurts me to laugh.) )

This is why RD only says "Can't do it", they are the workers who turn fantasy into reality.

Give me a grim example ... The photo PS into Lin Chi-ling or Fan Bingbing, does not mean that the real person is beautiful. Most women want to be realistic beauty to rely on cosmetic surgery to find a doctor to move a knife, but the gap is too big doctors can only say that do not, and even likely sequelae of a lot of mouth crooked eye oblique and so on.

planning = A person who tells you why you want PS photos or surgery

pm= coordinate the operation time, call all units to do things.

designer = person responsible for PS photos, presenting ideals (delusions)

Rd= is a doctor who performs medical beauty surgery and is responsible for turning ideals into reality.

Must understand many times said does not have to be impossible to do!

Is it hard to understand? Just look at the flower cosmetic into Fan bingbing. is the picture of the flower as the PS to Fan Bingbing more easily, or the reality of such as flower cosmetic into fan bingbing more easily? Often hear the UI does not understand why RD refused, the difficulty of implementation is not the same level.

　　UI designers need to understand technology

In addition to understanding the gap between ideal and reality, UI designers have a very important task that is rarely mentioned: "When RD's Titan." 」

From the (common) development process, the PM, planner, and UI begin to work in the early stages of project development, and RD is not added until a certain level of the project is completed. After joining the broken read A can not do, B can not do. Normal people who would like to listen to their own ideas this is not good, of course, resulting in no understanding and confrontation. Even if the two sides each step back to modify the content, due to the time, the Director agreed, the direction has been determined, and so on a variety of reasons, the product developed ... The Sibuxiang that appear to be crooked are entirely in anticipation.

PM, planner, UI, who are the closest people to technology in these three jobs? UI, of course! The UI is the technical life, is the truth-seeking face role!

So the UI has a responsibility to be a Titan, in the early stages of the project to all "not" ideas all block down. Some people say that rd? usually very few Rd will be involved in the discussion until the meeting is started, and it's too late for them to join. (depending on the company's development process, I see that many of the company's RD are foundry workers.) )

UI in the development of the early stage does not have to live, the latter must be because of "not line" and repair changes, before all the work in vain. Project cooperation is such a matter, want to say anyway after is someone else's work is not related to their own things ... Will eventually return to their own body. Sometimes the modification to death is self-inflicted, to help others think a little can avoid the mine pit.

　　Form subject to function

In project development to consider is "feasibility", any can not implement the idea is empty talk. The beauty of the design requires someone to implement the finished product, the form of obedience to the function.

One f2e said: "rd is not a designer's tool. We are a member of the project, not a foundry typist who realizes the designer's personal work!"

What is personal work, what is the project product, this is the biggest difference.

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... Rely on, think of playing WOW I was Dark shepherd, husband practice thieves, he said I have a shield so I launched to be a Titan.