Starting from a lecture by a UI interaction designer

The following is a lecture video from Apple UI interaction designer Bret Victor. It mainly explains how to write data more efficiently through tool innovation.CodeDebug code, test code, Design circuit diagram, and create animations.

I was shocked by the design concepts, tools, and visual effects brought by the video. However, when watching videos, I was thinking about another issue. Such an excellent interaction designer not only needs to have a considerable artistic level (mainly interaction, not vision), but also a considerable professional level. Several companies that have worked since graduation all have their own Interaction designers, but what meets this requirement is an exaggeration. Although the products in the video must be contributed by a team, I believe that there must be such people in this team before such products can be produced.

Reality is not an ideal country

Of course, everyone's standards are different. Some people may think this is not enough. However, reality is not an ideal country. We should not compare the real things of others with our own beautiful ideals. Therefore, high standards should be left for you. When measuring others' things, we should use reality as the standard. Implementation means that there are existing development tools, Microsoft's Visual Studio is doing well, and IE's develop tool is also doing well. However, compared with the tools in the video, I feel that I have fallen behind the times. Microsoft vs has been developing for many years, and each version has a large number of updates. Why is it easy to use directly in front of a prototype product of apple?

I do not know Microsoft, but I also know the companies I have worked for since my graduation. In most companies, most Interaction designers need to bear the responsibilities of artists at the same time. Therefore, when recruiting employees, they will mainly choose art-related professionals. This is no problem for general products, but if it is to design some professional products, these Interaction designers may feel powerless or interactive products are only unsatisfactory. The best solution is communication. Let the interaction designer really understand how professional users will use the product and what is the ultimate goal of using the product? Instead of simply understanding what functions the user wants. Sometimes the user's desired use method may not be the best because of its limitation of the way of thinking. This is where Interaction designers can and should make the most of their values. Only by understanding the user's ultimate goal can the interactive design scheme be more direct and efficient, and the final product is superior to the user's expectation, which makes people feel refreshed.

However, reality is not an ideal country. If an interaction designer's ideal life is not like "making life better and simpler", but like "traveling around the world. I believe that the company's design work is just to make money and earn more to achieve the ideal of "traveling around the world. He will work hard to make more money, but what he creates is not enough to achieve the "ideal country" that is "better, simpler ". Most of the best things are born in the hands of a person who sticks to his own ideals.

This is the reality, and the reality is not the ideal country. There are not many ideal things.

I want to write and write it here. I think it's almost time for me to get fruit, because I started to think that Steven Jobs created not an apple, but an ideal country. (BTW, but I still don't think iPhone is better than Android)

Division of labor

I originally wanted to give it a question in this part. I spoke about some of the companies I 've seen, such as my work points, my collaboration, and even the task being pushed. However, it really makes no sense to think about this. It is also rare for any company to have such a person, and it cannot be changed. It is better to use this time to write code and create your own ideal country.