How to design a brand new internet product from scratch

Article Description: the product design method of the Internet.

How to get from scratch, design a brand-new Internet product: website, app ...

What kind of product is the most valuable and competitive in the market at present? This topic is more complex, and this article is about having this foundation.

And after all this has been the goal and direction, consider how to start the design. The more accurate term is "product design".

▪ Not that "product manager" in the company summoned a variety of technical personnel, and then according to his own ideas, to achieve a product.

Of course it is not behind closed doors.

The design of Internet products requires a concept: fast.

It is not possible to have the direction, but also need 1 months or even months of time for planning, design. Finally take a series of visual design, technology development process, perhaps six months after a beta, after months of testing, patching bugs, finally 1 years after your product completed.

So, what do you need at this stage?

▪ understand the user.

If professional, it can be said in the "Interactive design" field, need to use a number of scientific methods, such as role positioning, card classification, information architecture design, user research and so on. Of course, not all will be used, according to the actual needs, can obtain more useful data information as a product design before the analysis, is better.

▪ understand technology.

At the very least, you need to know what your technical team can do and what you can't do, and of course, the best user experience is weighed against the fastest technology implementation.

People who often mix with big companies have this problem:

Interaction design, Product manager, what's the difference between them? Or what are their job responsibilities ?

Perhaps I think: Product manager and interactive design, should be together to do product design.

When designing a product, getting more information is no doubt useful for the design phase of the product.

But there are some information that needs to be overlooked first, to avoid:

Get bogged down in design details prematurely: What colors we need on our site, and what the overall style will be.

▪ The project is not yet well planned, then start thinking about the user interface and what our users want to see.

▪ What kind of things I want, what I need. I think they will accept my final design.

Index

This article is a total of 5 parts, is a simple internal management system design, in order to quickly solve the internal process problems, there is not much time to plan and think. Only 1 days.

Through the early useful data mining, understanding of user needs, analysis, thinking. In the design process also interspersed with a number of new requirements. The new needs and details of the thinking process do not affect the initial direction of thinking.

1. Ideas (This article)

2. Build the structure

3. Permission Location

4. Frame Design

5. Function design

Current problem analysis

Several nouns:

Customer Service staff: Taobao store customer service, customer contact person

Order: Customer service personnel to issue an order by confirming customer's demand

Leveling Department: Department of Production work related to order

The current process:

Customer service staff through Wang Wang, QQ, mobile phone and other methods, and customer communication, customer demand is clear, the next single, customer service staff will need to fill in Excel, will be sent to the Leveling department, leveling department to print orders, arrangements leveling work; Leveling completion or problems, the Leveling department will contact the customer through the order information.

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