Design Viewpoint: Design a work that makes the user feel enjoyable

Yes, today is to say how to find the design of the G-spot (the following content is not 18+ components, anyone can read):

First, I have to explain what the "G-spot" of design is, the word I'm defining is not the sex thing-well, it all has the same point, when you're creating a design, it ends up making the audience feel good, and you're enjoying yourself. In simple terms, the main focus is "How did this idea come out?" "In what way it will look better", "these creative methods are actually found through communication and exercise."

1. Continuous Practice

Yes, I'm talking about constant practice, and this exercise is not just about trying to imitate some master's ready-made works, but creating a contingency. I once talked to a Turkish designer, who said that the designer's practice was not to create a "work", but to make a "scrap", which made me suddenly enlightened for a long time. Yes, stick with your pen and software, scribble some puzzles, some special effects, some combination of filters, and even simply use Ctrl+u to change the color of different pictures, this is a practice. Combine the pictures, photos, graffiti, and scanned fonts you can find to see if they can tell a story .

And in a lot of color and structure exercises, you may get some new styles and graphic layouts, such as the digital collage design of these free styles (Indy art) like the one below, which I guess is the direct result of this exercise:

Practice is just like painting, only doing enough, you can find the quickest way, and learn to discard the same, simple way of making, or even draw a water droplets of texture, you do 100 times and do 2-3 times the effect is completely different, Leonardo da Vinci painting the egg story we have learned, But a lot of people do not take him seriously, this is the cup.

2. Cross type of thinking

To make a graphic from the visual shock, there is a most direct way is to create a sense of conflict of graphics, so that a thing in life without the presence of the image. In fact, you will find that these ideas are in fact in life alone can find things, their "cross" if separated, the design may become prosaic, you look at the picture below, you should understand what I am saying:

Cross type of thinking, more content is clever combination and picture sense, then how to choose the combination of "element"? is the skill of association and movement, which is the literary method of description, to put it simply, it is to arrange all the elements related to a thing, and then remove the incomprehensible, illogical, visually not-beautiful, and finally reverse-out of the normal life, adding new ingredients in, This is the new idea.

3. See enough, think deep enough

A lot of people will ask me on QQ: "Very strange, I saw a lot of other people's good works, I am very excited want to make, but as soon as I do it myself, I have two eyes a smear", first I will ask you actually saw how much? If you are a web designer, have you ever seen 10,000 websites? If there is no more than that, then you do not see enough, you only see a few hundreds of sites, you think you have mastered most of the design style genre, that is too optimistic.

Of course, see a lot of quality, your card-type browsing is no use, especially in many English websites, you may not look at the word, drag the picture off, or directly saved to the hard disk. The better way is to choose good works and good structure, do some of their own analysis, ask yourself more questions: "Why does he use black, do not white background?" Just because it's cool? "," Why does he use this font, where does this font come from? Who designed the font "," This texture is great, in the life of things inside? Why did he find out that the layout was so handsome that it looked like a product catalog? ”

What is thinking? Thinking is enough skepticism and shouting spirit, to a phenomenon through the surface to reach the skin, and not be hindered by fat.

From the dynamic of the creative class and the words of the works, generally I now only look at the following site (layout relationship, I only put a diagram):

Www.thefwa.com

Www.ffffound.com

Www.qbn.com

4. Make the real thing

That's why I like to do mobile phones, the products made are real, taken in hand, can play, can be used, can be shared, can be a social life as a bridge, when your work by you actually get hands, feeling and monitor is completely different.

Not only your work, but also your creative experiments need to be linked to life, for example, I do car stickers, posters, make invitations, do t-shirts, make toys, make furniture, do product packaging .... Every single one of them seems to be a small little thing, but it is these little things that motivate me to study every detail of my life, Look at the connections between these little things and people, how they can be put down, how to make people angry, and with these experiences, you will naturally have a more mature understanding of design.

Someone will ask: "You do so many things, then you can do good mobile phone UI?" Can you study the user experience well? I can only say that your mother called you home to drink gruel for this stupid question. The image below is Dimitri's art version sneaker processing workshop, stunning bar ~ ~ ~

5. Constantly creating differences

To have new ideas, in the design of the Shang, you have to constantly challenge yourself, you have to believe that the human brain and at least 80% is not developed, you have some ideas, but how they are you dug out? My experience is to constantly create differences.

Visually, such as the current interface design is popular Tencent style, EICo style, then you do not do this style, to see what you can have the possibility of design, otherwise no matter how hard you are, you get the answer is only: "Do well, quite like the interface of QQ"-life so, how can you calm the mood?

Whether the visual or the product itself, create differences have a new concept of the possibility, and especially in the design of the object of the difference, we are more likely to find the miracle did not find, when everyone is concerned about the design of the car, is not someone concerned about the design of the door handle? When everyone focuses on Parisian fashion jewelry, you find that there are people who are concerned about feeding the cat's food bowl design? Novelty of the category always bring unique life feelings, we do not distinguish between the design classification and function is too tight, any design is for our repressed society to make a good contribution, we have the opportunity to contact them. When all the designers are trapped in the "mass design" of the pain, your idea is likely to come from the "niche design."

And finally, whether you're struggling with the idea of a bird at all times, still tangled in the state of cranky, as long as you are good at looking at the design of the G-spot, your audience will always be brought to your climax, and you can find in the industry to adhere to the best reasons.