Gossip: Party B

I don't know if you have any questions: the designers in "big companies" (especially in http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/8150.html "> Traditional Industries") seem to be quite relaxed, usually seemingly not too busy, Have the task to look for design outsourcing, and often jiangshan. This kind of state lets many professions small white envy unceasingly, as if felt the respect the light to sprinkle full body. The designers in these big companies, as we call them, are the architects of the system, and in the cooperation of many projects they act as reviewers and decision makers (of course, ultimately, their leaders). They have better incomes, a more stable career environment, wider offices, more advanced tools ... the question is, how can I be like them? – This is the vision of most of the designers who are still in the food and clothing line.

In fact, the attitude of the designer reflects the attitude of the team, the attitude of the team reflects the company's posture, whether the designer has the right to speak, in addition to the designer's own qualifications and ability, as well as the external environment to cooperate. The background of a large company is the natural soil that provides this environment. A way for a (or a group of) designers to grow fast in addition to the necessary training, good projects and products, qualified leadership, and let him have a sense of achievement, a sense of belonging to the team platform, together for quality objectives to adhere to the values of efforts, and finally the appropriate treatment, relaxed environment-things will not all so smooth, Even in big companies there are problems like this, but being a designer in the system is often the ultimate goal of some small white. Then you can take a look at the following information:

1. The nature of the election to the company

Why do big company designers have more power over project decisions? Because large companies are often party a, large companies need to have suppliers, need to have outsourcing system, need to have control process, and the system designers are often synonymous with experts, so in the foreign cooperation and product decision-making process, they often act as the role of people. Domestic generally act as party a company: large and medium-sized state-owned enterprises (PetroChina, etc.), state-controlled investment enterprises (China Mobile, etc.), a leader in a certain industry (Taobao, Tencent, etc.), industrial chain upstream enterprises (brand mobile phone business is upstream, content service providers are downstream, of course, such as Apple's business model is more special , which controls both upstream and downstream.

Then why should party a designer be relaxed? Because you can make design rules. For example, you have developed a system interface design specifications, your content development team should follow this specification to implement, this is not flexible design requirements and testing, the designer naturally do not have to spend a lot of quality standards of communication time, and discard design prototypes. Making rules is the goal of all enterprises in the market economy, although many enterprises do not have this ability for a while, but who do not want to always take orders from people, so to achieve the full right of speech, the first step is to master the power to make rules.

If you are particularly interested in mastering the right to speak, you should choose a company that acts as party A, so it will be relatively better when implementing your own design intentions. In addition, there is a phenomenon is not very good but the fact is: the company's talent level and quality from the probability is to be superior to many small companies (of course I do not say that small companies are rookie), although the case, the system within the company will have a vote of light porridge do not work, but if there is an accurate flow and good execution, Then at least your design will not be denied very quickly.

It is particularly important to note that some companies appear to be "big" but tend to be very frustrated, so when it comes to understanding the company, it is best to ask some of the seniors who are or have worked for it, and listen to negative news that will help your judgment.

2. Select the right Team

There is a company to do party A, do not prove you can do party A, there is a level of internal barriers, there are many design department in the company has been a father does not hurt, Niang do not love, this phenomenon in the state-owned traditional enterprises are very prominent-I am surprised that the state-owned traditional enterprises will have a design department, we should incense. Unfortunately, as the company identified the "art", your right to speak is limited, you do nothing but the intention of the leadership through the software to express, you do not look down on your work, you may also line up behind a long team in the coveted your stable salary.

How do you choose a team? I don't know what happens to the teams that don't show up online. Don't worry, you should ask your future leaders about the structure of the team or the people in the interview, but you can investigate the background. Generally speaking, the structure of the team is based on the design process or design scope, is a reference dimension that determines the team's right to speak-a team with incomplete structure is bound to have no influence, and the number and quality reflect the importance of the company. If a company does not attach importance to the design team, can only show that they do not attach importance to the design quality, then even the party company, you want to master the right to speak in the design of the Arabian Nights.

A good party team is often a radish a pit, into the Lai don't want to go, out of the also thinking back, so without the exact preparation, you want to knock open the door of such a company, or quite difficult. Most of these team members are updated by headhunters or industry contacts, so you want to meet this kind of bole at a job fair, less likely than a meteorite hit your head.

3. Choose your location

Your question came: "TMD, my company can not be a party, is party B's should be suppressed?" "Soot, I'm not saying I want you to be submissive, not to let you see hope." The fact is that party A has always been higher than party B, this is the contract is clear, however, the two sides still have mutually beneficial things, as party B you should first put your own position, you are based on help and service, rather than command and judgment. There are many designers of the communication starting point is wrong in, Yy himself is the intention of the party to design ability to influence real party A, let the other party and their compromise-this is useless.

Party a party B except you come to me head-on confrontation, there is a middle link, is the location of the interface, the designer in this position will have a lot of opportunities to guide Party A in accordance with the requirements of the design, and how to make good use of this phase of the resource is to the designer communication skills, sales skills (you are not mistaken, is sales skills), The test of the ability of psychological reading. A really good designer, in addition to the completion of good works, but also know how to let others accept his work, and finally fell in love with it, perhaps a lot of people did not do enough.

Besides, what I'm going to tell you is, party B in the cooperation, if you are very good performance, and professional, dedicated attitude to serve the party, perhaps party A will also dig your past-I have seen several of these transactions, both sides are very happy, the key or your own practice. I would like to say that, as a service side, your special will attract the attention of party A, as to go or not to go, you have in private already have the answer.

4. You need some chips.

The following point is not allowed to broadcast, the system of designers on the surface is pretty scenery, the company title, welfare system, documentation norms .... It all looks like that. But it is the comfort that has been arranged, it is easy to lose the target, have to admit, most of the architects in the system are very difficult in the design of the accomplishments, the things that kill will often occur, in the face of too single products, and high repeatability of the process of operation, 4-5 years later, the loss of a keen insight into design. I am not alarmist, my friends around me are happening this kind of thing, and big Enterprise will not care about this.

If you are not trying to get into a big business with maternity leave, or a steady job, then being a party a may not be your best choice. One of the biggest benefits of working for a large business or company on a career path is to make your resume more beautiful, that's all. For individuals, do you really learn the "big business Approach" estimates only God knows. A good process makes a good team, but it may be a paradox, but not necessarily a good individual, but it is an objective problem in the big companies-perhaps, after most of our middle-class cadres are ripe for improvement, and unfortunately this improvement is particularly difficult in the design sector.

With the increase in age, family responsibilities, to enter a party company must also be the best choice, so large companies often become a good endowment, and will not become the birthplace of design, but also in this. Not only China, even the creative burst of the Anglo-American region, as far as I can see, the real design of many products are also made by small teams, small companies, also have to say is a sad.

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