Design is Life

Although not necessarily rigorous, this is a serious topic.

Every time you see "every bitter behind the designers have a group of Jiangshan God" This law, always let some designers because of Lenovo reality and ideal between the huge gap between the hearts of desolation. Being directed to "move up one pixel, high end atmosphere ...", experienced again and again stirring "absolutely not revised 1, 2, 3 ..." After the purgatory, the heart of the kind of slowly dissolve in the loneliness and negative disappointment of the silent resentment often make us forget the occupation of the vision and yearning, Design has become a mere tool of life, but also in the heart of the brooding: why can foreign designers unfettered, as if living in a dream?

I do not intend to be a part of the domestic designers are affected by the reality of the ideal work to do a summary of the situation. As a profession, undeniable design is a kind of paid behavior to solve food and clothing. But often outside the designer, even the designers themselves ignore the fact is: in addition to as a career, designers in life observation and understanding is to give its product image and temperament of the source, but also in cooperation to support the professional play the value and influence the most important wealth. So, where did the drop come from? Occasionally hear design colleagues jokingly told the new people to cherish life away from the design, in empathy, think of the same as the bitterness of the same time, experienced a hard thinking, finally, the "why would produce such a gap" some clues:

Ingenuity leads to excessive self

Designers often have a craftsman-like heart. The same is the inspiration system, compared to the art, design more use of reason to solve people's problems. When the designers in the discovery of the needs of the majority of people to inject too much beyond the needs of the ego, and stubbornly adhere to, it may lead to the design can not reflect the versatility of the product, and deviate from the demand.

Compared to some universal Internet products and designer personal websites, it is obvious that some personalized design is very aesthetic, but does not fit the thinking of most users, this is a huge difference between versatility and personalization, so that too unique design can not be used in the popular product design.

In addition, the pursuit of detail is the quality of every designer, grasp the details can often bring more delicate and smooth experience, but the details also often make the details of the manufacturer themselves.

The intuitive nature of design leads to obstacles to cooperation

In the product development team, everyone can according to subjective aesthetic tendencies, the most intuitive design in product development guidance maze, and do not need to understand the designer in the design process to give the solution to the various considerations. A part of the professional partner who lacks understanding of the design wants to see as many possibilities as possible, ignoring the professional ability of the designer to judge and choose from experience. Although there is a certain one-sidedness, but this does describe a part of the domestic understanding of the design is very little understanding. If the designer cannot guide and communicate the goal and direction of design in the proper way, it will cause the design process to be divorced from the problems needing attention and become a pixel-level dispute. On the other hand, these disputes have exacerbated the loss of trust in the partnership.

Cramped self-evolving space

Earlier, "Why China's web design so Rotten (English original)," the article proposed: "The Chinese visit a website is in the data acquisition mode, visit the site is to input the content of the site into the brain, with the interaction, reaction or understanding is irrelevant." "This inertia extends to the design of Internet products as the simplified and printing industries adopt a common approach to Western typography that alters the westernized reading habits of Chinese people." Although experienced designers can complete the control of the overall design style to achieve international standards of design, limited by the domestic Internet development level, the design is still chasing Western countries. And, catching more is form, no more time left to think and precipitate. And the foresight of consciousness is the core factor of the true leadership trend, which is one of the reasons why the design style of the fashion is not in the first place at home.

In particular, the advent of mobile internet, Internet software more using agile development, peat peat rhythm left designers free to explore the time is very few. Buried in the map led to the designer can not clear the positioning needs, was sliced submerged, endless changes in design, and eventually created a mediocre hardship forced to cut the figure, and he can only watch the designer's ideal is gradually gone.

But I still have reason to believe that this should not be the arrow that hits the knee and kills every designer's heart-

1. Explore the original intention

Whenever the designer is still unable to push their own design concept is recognized, often will depression, the feeling of pain further exacerbated, not to sigh mingtu, how to embark on the design of this road.

But after the time to become a designer, then how to look forward to? I am not sure that every designer has the same experience and goals, but for a person who is immersed in a mechanical laboratory every day at school, becoming a designer is the best I have ever imagined. Not only because the designer has a novelty and fun, creative gallop of the work, design also represents the kind of unrestrained, exquisite, and full of romantic plot of life attitude. Finally one day became a designer, like every hit designer, I started complaining about all kinds of situations. But adjust the good mentality, give up the trouble simply look, the work of difficulties and challenges are more or less the problem of time or method, to spend some thoughts, or learn to balance their attitude, trouble will eventually drift with a cloud.

2. Courage, self-cultivation and the cultivation of consciousness

"For photography, we should not pretend to be forced to admit that we are forced." "This is what I have heard from a photographic teacher, though not very elegant, but full of philosophical views." For a lot of designers who are not good at expressing themselves, the self-confidence of their professional ability, not only can give their courage to set a clear goal, or a driving project depends on the ability of the designer of the silent proof. Of course, courage can always only come from true professionalism and insight.

While implementing your own design in a project is often challenged by other roles, if you look at this challenge as an opportunity for thinking collisions, learn to think creatively when challenged and to listen to voices from different angles. The article "How to overcome self-criticism and lack of motivation?" The criticism may arouse the designer's self-doubt, but on the contrary it may encourage progress. Self-criticism of design works, ideas, processes, and ideas is also an effective way to enhance professional ability and motivate learning motivation.

It also involves a hidden ability that players often learn in instant strategy games-consciousness. In the game, good consciousness can make up for the shortage of technology, and in all fields including design, the outstanding consciousness is always the better condition of standing on the professional ability. Consciousness is natural and acquired, and it can gradually cultivate and form good consciousness by observing and thinking on specific fields, and consciousness itself has the ability to spread to other fields.

3. Communication and understanding are the know-how to reduce rework

Some designers may have listened to the above suggestions on courage, gradually developed a blind self-confidence of their work, narcissistic habits. However, design is a work that requires communication, whether it is to understand the needs of customers or products, patient, multi-directional communication can often help designers to explore a product from the various dimensions of the real demand, and through active communication, it is easier for designers to understand how these requirements should be measured, So that the design as much as possible to meet the needs, but also to integrate into the original designer insights. The earlier perspective of understanding and communication, not only to help designers out of the inability to grasp the real needs of the changes have to be done over and over, but also may be in the positive communication from the received information in the burst of new ideas, out of limited thinking, to create better solutions.

For some of the introverted nature of the designer, the realization of multi-directional communication may be some obstacles, so that they would rather suppress the inner manic again and again silently modify, until the arrangement of all the possibilities, their exhaustion, and finally let the customer dazzling, finally inadvertently chose the designers themselves are not approved of the program, The result of a very determined outcome, if overturned, brings a chain reaction. In this case, the revision of the design and the proposed professional recommendations of the two to make a comparison, with the scope of the designer's responsibilities, and blind modification, hidden opinions do not want to express only may cause the heart of injustice, not only delay the work, but also may create a more bitter force of the designer.

So, designers need to work hard to understand the content and mindset of other roles, such as product managers or engineers, and boldly put forward real and effective advice in an open mind and in a proper manner, but not too insistent: because those who know how to listen and understand, they also understand the importance of thinking collisions and professional opinions; Listeners who are completely unable to be impressed by good advice may not be stubborn geniuses or rash.

4. The methodology of designers

Medicine has a prescription, soldiers have the art of war, design methodology, and designers to get rid of the bitter force of cultivation in addition to professional skills also have their own methodology. It is believed that designers ' partners are rarely really rash arrogant. But how to let a group of thoughtful and assertive people listen to their opinions, there are some ways for the designers may be in the difficult position as a reference.

One more option

For a demand that may be controversial or impenetrable, if a designer can provide more than one set of options for submitting a design, it can be used as a beacon for further confirmation of demand at a time when some requirements are not clear; It eliminates the lengthy process of a design manuscript being rejected, buried and then reviewed. This package may take only a few minutes.

Professional presentation Documentation

Just imagine: bitter forced designers on the computer painfully drag the long process of PNG design manuscript, and professional designers in the side with a clear presentation of the document to talk about ...

Not only because the professional design document is an effective way for designers to comb their ideas, but also to cope with the flow of design resources, the systematic project precipitation contained in the document can save a lot of repetitive work time during the handover. For the designer itself, the more important significance is: the design of the document demonstrated professional, rigorous attitude and clear design ideas, will make the design process and results more convincing. Here is an article on the design of the document, "How to make a practical and beautiful design document."

Invite core decision-makers to participate in design review

Aimless modification is the source of the designer's pain. Make sure that every important design review has a core decision person present, or at least receive such advice, as much as possible to minimize the design changes and rework due to uncertain requirements is an ingenious approach.

Cooperation and trust makes haste

Often in the cooperation of the demand side do not trust the designer, to design a subjective opinion of the situation. This not only affects the working mood of the designer, but also may cause the design draft to absorb too many different ideas and eventually become Sibuxiang. The designer has the responsibility to understand the collaborators and to guide the collaborators to understand the design work and to look at the problem from the designer's perspective. After a long run-in, transposition thinking and exchange of ideas, designers and other roles in cooperation will gradually establish a trust relationship, if the designer's recommendations are mostly correct, effective, trust will be more solid, the project also began a virtuous cycle.

5. Design is Life

Design is Life?

If design is life, then design becomes the whole of life, and life will always be designed ... This statement is highly likely to cause a large number of hardship to force the designers panic.

But while we're still panicking, there are designers who are traveling around the world, bringing us the voice of Internet entrepreneurs all over the world, and designers using the cheapest and simplest of materials to produce an ipad touch-screen pen with high precision and using it to make a small picture on the ipad; back from abroad, The designer who worked for many years still passionately loves her design work ... There are many more.

This is what I call life. The designer's job may often need to solve a variety of difficult problems, but our life is always full of fun, regardless of reading, travel, photography, crafts, food, games, and even sleep, everything in life is the source of inspiration. Probably because of this, I can still see many followers of design work. They are optimistic to laugh at themselves as a bitter designer, but also enjoy depicting their work in a variety of bitter force of the moment. But also such a group of people, they pay the delicate emotion, allow each kind of thing to inspire the sentiment in the heart, unscramble the beautiful in this universe, and through diligently and insists this kind of harmony passes to each of us's life, designs and creates the future which has never had.