Design is an attitude

Wen Shi wenchao

Intern at Microsoft Asia research institute innovation engineering center

 

Each of us is labeled with a different label when we fill in our volunteers for the college entrance examination. We are destined to embark on a different career, And my label is a designer. When I entered the university for over one thousand days and nights, I was not always thinking about this problem. Suddenly, I was surprised to find that each of us is a designer who completes an organization and makes a circuit board, write a program ...... All these are designs. In my opinion, we can express our ideas through some technology we have mastered. This is design. Design is a combination of "Techniques" and "Tao". However, "Techniques" are easy to use and "Tao" is hard to find. Tao, that is, thought, wisdom, sparks, and spirit of design. It is the perception of things, the sublimation of perception, and the accumulation of life. It is the lifelong pursuit of every designer.

 

Yes, there is a soul in design. Each design piece reflects the designer's attitude and feelings and responses to a problem. The good or bad design comes from whether the designer's attitude can resonate with others. A good work is touching. We have been learning and are committed to the pursuit of design. Learning is a kind of belief, design, attitude ......

 

A month ago, at the invitation of GE Yu, I performed a T-shirt design to commemorate the third anniversary of Microsoft's blog at the Asia Research Institute. A month later, I wrote my feelings here. I'm glad that my design can resonate with others and be recognized by others. This is what I have been trying to achieve. The theme of T-shirt was SNS social networks. When I learned the theme, I had a lot of thoughts in my mind, but I was totally negative, because I have not solved the most important problem yet. What is my attitude? By the way, I am certain about SNS social networks. It has brought a positive impact to our lives, and even each of us has incorporated some of the characteristics that SNS have brought to us, we all have an ID, a password ...... After confirming my attitude, I fell into a wonderful realm in the next few days. I was thinking all the time: How can I express my attitude most appropriately? I think, a design thinking process, as Wang Guowei talked about in his "word of the Earth": throughout the ages, anyone who can make a great career or ask questions from a university has gone through three levels of study: "The West Wind withered green trees last night. A tall building exclusive to the sky ." "I don't regret it when I get out of my clothes, so I am worn out ." "Looking for him in the crowd, suddenly looking back, that person is in the dark ." Without thinking, there was a flash of light, and there was a figure of a person in the SNS social network in his mind: the first is a display, the screen shows the user's login interface. This is the current work.

 

In the subsequent Sina microwave voting process, my mood was excited and complicated. I was excited that my work could be posted on Weibo, I was worried about whether my work could be recognized by everyone. At that time, I always felt an inexplicable impulse, the impulse is similar to the desire of parents to recognize and praise their children. Over the past few days, I have always tapped F5 on the keyboard to cheer for each piece of identity and remember each piece of question. Although the time is short, it is impressive and hard to erase. The voting statistics are over. I am very pleased that my attitude towards the SNS community network has been recognized by most people. Of course, I have modified my work for your suggestions, under limited conditions, perfection is the essence of design.

 

Each piece of design works has gone through hard and careful thinking. luyou has a poem cloud: "This article is born, it's amazing." The same is true for design. One design, one inspiration, as if it was already there, what we need to do is to find it and find it, endless thinking is only for the spark of that star, that transient flash, at the moment of inspiration, I even had a burst of tears. I think this feeling is common, and many people will feel this way. Because, this is the instinct that is endowed with the birth of mankind-creation.

 

In a twinkling of an eye, I have spent three months at the Microsoft Asia Research Institute. I found that I love it deeply. Here, there is the loose environment, a class of thinking and passion, I am a young colleague like me. Here, I can think freely, and every day's work is full of dynamic thoughts. The spark of every collision is our achievement, our work. This is simple and straightforward. There is a simple and pure atmosphere. Every employee who enters this atmosphere will resonate with it and be infected here. As if they were not themselves, they became simple, straightforward, simple, and pure. My work, my design also has such characteristics, but it is definitely not simple, because it integrates my thoughts on things, my attitude and my sweat. We say that if you think people around you are complicated, you are a complicated person first. At the Institute, each of us is simple and moving toward a common goal.

 

I would like to thank all the people from the Institute who helped me and those who voted for me ......

 

I think, when I leave, I will remember everything here.

 

Additional reading:

1. Bop Douban home page: http://book.douban.com/subject/3004255/

2. Internet purchase link: http://www.china-pub.com/38070

3. "Beauty of programming", mandatory for IT job interview "link:
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