What should be done before the interactive design novice enters the job?

This week has completed all the departure formalities, has prepared the various certificates and the material, next week will enter the job. So as a new designer who is about to get out of the ivory tower, what do I do to prepare for the coming job?

　　Tool Flow Carding

First of all, still is the Sketch of the hand as the main output tool. Flattening today, especially for interactive designers, Sketch can handle most of the design scenes, including vector and wireframe drawing. Because before in the school also has been using Sketch to do exercises and projects, most of the operation are very familiar with, but also reserves a certain design resources, so become the preferred tool.

In addition, I prepared a Affinity Designer to replace PhotoShop as my visual design tool. Affinity can directly handle the PSD, PDF and other documents, and more lightweight, faster than the heavy PhotoShop. For interactive designers, using Affinity for visual design is sufficient, and collaboration without any problems, is a good second design tool.

On the dynamic side, although last summer I mainly used pixate to make interactive prototyping, while still learning origami. After half a year, principle and flinto gradually into everyone's vision. I choose principle as the main interaction tool, it is more grasp of the details than Flinto, and the dynamic engine and the original IOS, the output is more accurate. Framer Studio is relatively complex, so I listed as an alternative tool, in the face of more cumbersome effects can choose to use it for prototyping. After all, as long as you think, framer can be achieved.

Other tools, I selected rookie MWeb as a Markdwon editor for the usual notes, still choose Xmind to make brain maps, help comb ideas and record ideas, choose Apple's own calendar, reminders to replace wunderlist daily schedule management.

　　Business Preview

As with technology, a bigger focus in work is business. If you've worked in a team before, like me, you can have a ballpark estimate of upcoming projects and businesses, and you can spend more time preparing them before you get in. If it is a new contact with the company does not matter, early and senior, senior sister, contact, ask the team the latest direction or use of new tools, etc., can help you quickly into the team.

In addition to staring at their own business, also can not ignore the competition goods. The actual work is often to see the same needs of others how to do, so if there is some contact in advance, even the depth of other competing platform users will naturally give you the design to bring more inspiration.

　　Study Plan

To the trained I, the vision is a big short board, at the same time although has the programming foundation but is far from enough. Therefore, I intend to start in the new work at the same time, to ensure that the premise of doing a good job to enhance the visual ability to enhance, while the common front-end technology to further grasp.

Fortunately these two aspects in my actual work also will have the contact, for example, when making a high-fidelity design draft, pay attention to visual details, not just produce a prototype sketch; In the H5 of the larger proportion of their own App, communicating with the front-end students can also let me know more about the relevant technology.

I subscribe to Xia Taptara's painting tutorials on Youtube and Mt. Mograph's AE tutorial, hoping to become a more skilled designer, with new work posted to Dribbble.

It is also very important to keep writing. There will be more input and promotion after the work, so there must be more thinking and output. When the business of the design points abstracted out, through their own refining and processing to write a good article, not only can help themselves summed up, but also to enhance the impact of my industry.

Others, feel that their English is still too weak, so the use of scallops to the back of the day to recite the words, the practice of reading and writing is also necessary.

　　Mindset Adjustment

When I remember the intern's interview, an interviewer asked me: What's the difference between doing a project or designing a school or working in a company? My answer is that the previous design is what they need to do, and after entering the job is to serve the needs of others. Maybe we often make excuses for ourselves, such as I do not often amoy or even do not buy online, but this can no longer be a hindrance to do one thing-because your design is not only for yourself, but to serve tens of thousands of users.

Leaving the ivory tower means independently, which means that no one will back the pot for you and be responsible for you. Future work will encounter a variety of difficulties or bottlenecks, and we have to do our best to solve them, can not be too dependent on predecessors and teachers.

The new beginning, together refuels!

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