Yes
I'm a copycat Internet product designer.。
I do not deny that, if a product module I will not design, I will not hesitate to take my competitors or similar products for plagiarism. Then put the things done to my users to do the test, and finally modify and improve.
The process of my plagiarism is probably this:
1) Seek the same
Get a demand and then analyze it and compare it with what I've seen in my head, and search if not. Discover the similarities between the products I'm doing and the products I've used before.
2) Differences
Seriously use a product that exists with the product that I do now, to see how people react to their products, and I use my own opinions and knowledge to make judgments. Look at what they do well, what they do badly, what works for them but not on my product. "
For example, Gmail's mail function is very powerful, spam module is also very good, but, analogy to do e-commerce website mail system, it is definitely not worth the candle.
3) Combination
After studying all the similar features of the product, I will find a home does not sign up to do a good job, b for the optimization of the copy is very popular, C home information structure is very cow. Then I need to do is to put a, B, c three advantages of a comprehensive, and then separate plagiarism.
Yes, completely copied a product is a low-level plagiarism, but also not serious plagiarism.
4) Optimization
Perhaps D's similar product creativity is very good, but the thing that makes out is too rotten, use super uncomfortable. I would choose to copy his ideas and optimize them.
For example, before doing E-commerce platform shop system, there is a small station to engage in a "next door shop," the little function. But when you click on the "Shop Next Door" button, he just opens the new page in a sequential order for all the stores. I think this idea is too good to break, but the design is too bad. So, I also made a shop next door module, I changed the rules from the current user to browse the store's similar shop randomly opened a show, not only to achieve the purpose of the next door has also done a fit user interest.
5) Correction
When these copied things were assembled, my plagiarism works came out. It looks like the skin of a product, holding the knife of B products, walking the steps of the C product, but also more than D products wearing a top hat. But how the battle is handled by my users.
After the rapid on-line, through the background flow monitoring, user feedback, the relevant leadership of the views and so on to know whether the assembled guy is a transformer or a lump of mud. At this point you also know where the problem is, quickly make a decision, and then revise it.
In a nutshell, this is my iterative theory of product design. Personally feel that the Internet's product design is a rapid iterative process, followed by a continuous plagiarism, plagiarism, and then copied such a large iterative process, the overall view is a spiral process.
The only condition that determines whether you can become a good designer is if you can "copy" it. Because of copy acquisition, so the more!
Of course, do not rule out the possibility that you are a genius product designer, then, if you are a completely just according to their own mind design ideas to design without reference to any other person's product designer, please, heartily despise me, I completely sincerely accept your contempt!
Original link: http://www.ikent.me/blog/2130
