How the hard-pressed designer attacked

"Bitter force" the word, many designers like to call themselves, because in the work often encounter changes to change things, and sometimes even just a product implementation tool. Why do designers come across these dilemmas? In fact, no matter what occupation is passive will have such a bitter force, so the designer in the whole process of initiative is essential.

Leadership and management are different, management is the responsibility of each company, and leadership is the subconscious formation and ability to influence and drive the whole team. Designers do not necessarily have management responsibilities, but leadership is the best way to get rid of the "bitter" status quo, simply to be the owner of the entire project.

With your heart, the project team will be more attentive to you.

Yes, each of us is careful with the project, the intention here is that you should consider taking part in most meetings of the entire project, other than your own responsibilities, rather than just appearing on the design review, and fully improving your exposure. That's the basics, of course not to let you open your cell phone at the conference and play with your own, What is needed is to be able to participate in the discussion to make comments. Often find product managers to talk about products, positive follow-up interface, over time you will be integrated into, or perhaps to collect product feedback and so on, in short, do not belong to you are the intentions, not limited to their own scope.

Open, do not limit yourself to death, the knowledge of many can always help us at the critical moment

In the professional skills, more understanding of products and the development of the principle of our design has a great help, if prison stick to their own circle that the last can only be the mercy of the parade. From all levels to give an example, the visual level of "what the user will be bothered by this color", on the interactive level, "This window is a jump and is a direct pop-up," The development level, "I want to achieve transparency is really that difficult?" If you understand, I think the whole process will be very smooth, you can easily stand in various positions to solve these problems. So I think designers should not confine themselves to be interactive and visual, of course, the premise is that your own professional is solid enough, so as to open branches scattered leaves can withstand the wind and percussion.

We tend to talk about requirements with product managers and stay on the design level to say whether it's good or not, but this can not be substantial to convince others, because everyone's senses and operating habits are different, too many of us should first go to the elaboration of the functional level, function-driven design, and design impact function, So at this time you usually understand the product-related knowledge can be used.

Proposal, excellent and clear proposal design is one of the essential conditions for the entire project to be led

When it comes to proposal design, I think we are not unfamiliar, but the real design of a complete proposal designed to do is very few designers. In fact, the proposal design to say that the simple point is the thinking of graphics, to express what they want to show more clearly, so that the participants follow our ideas to go, rather than let them listen to our own divergent thinking.

When we talk about demand, we often have the same goal in the communication process. When each person's ideas and understanding are different, so we may appear in the picture shown in the situation, they are lions, but their characteristics vary greatly, if a clear picture and introduction in front of, I don't think anyone will be mistaken.

So in the proposal design I think is such a process: Add or change the design must have a strong user feedback behind the data support, before the project has not started early communication with the product manager, they usually will not refuse, they do not need to spend any effort, even sometimes you help them solve their things. Then, as the whole project goes into the testing phase, the scenarios are completed, including why I'm going to do it, how to deal with it, how to solve it, and what it looks like. The last is the high Fidelity prototype, do not require very sophisticated but can clearly express the appearance of the real product, in the proposal Tencent did a great job, can refer to their concept of product video. Conceptual design is a regular version of the need to guide lights, so do a good job of the proposal, you can win a lot of initiative.

Relationships, friends speak better than strangers

Friends and friends are always the most agreeable, developers always tell us that this can not achieve the implementation, believe me, most of the situation without them can not achieve the only they do not want to do, willing to study. It's important to have a good relationship with them, of course, on the product manager side you have to be close to them and make them feel that you are his friend rather than their KPI tool. We often ignore this when we do the project, think that after the completion of the demand output design, in fact, we can spend more time with them to discuss life, discuss work, into their circle, and then do things together will inevitably feel very relaxed.

In fact, a designer is a preacher, you have to put your ideas into their minds, throughout the project with the same heart to do things, say that they are not the same idea you have to work hard to make them think like you. In my project team before the development of the effect of the reduction is poor or product managers to discuss the demand when the direct disregard of you, and then talk about products like chat or talk about life is nothing to eat and the weekend will organize their activities together, in order to let everyone cooked up. Actively follow up in the development phase, what will you ask them if it is the product manager how to deal with this demand, and then they restore the time to follow up, as time goes by now the development has been able to restore the degree of nearly 100%, and even some pictures they can do it themselves, and sometimes do some of their own gadgets, Be sure to let them have a sense of participation, no one is willing to mechanically follow the others. Product Manager There is basically the same as friends with them, if there is a possibility to help them share some of the needs of the analysis, now the basic product manager to you as a person, in what you do will let you discuss with him, so as to a certain degree of unity of opinion, reduce the cost of repeated changes.

Time, a good time can make your things easier

It's not that you're doing the right thing at every time, like when a project is urgent or when demand is saturated, no one wants to hear you say. For example, at the end of the project can be tentatively to understand what the next project plans, what will be the problem, if the answer, then decisive attack. There are bottlenecks in the product, you may feel that this is not your business, in fact this is the best time for you to cut into the product, because this time they need more advice and help.

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Of course, everyone's work environment is different, or career planning, the way to deal with it is different, but these five big points is really you become the project team owner must have the conditions, and said that, early you will be very tired, because there are too many things need you to create and pay, of course, the return is also rich, You will get rid of the bitter, the whole project walk down you will find more relaxed than before.

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