Organize your ideas through communication

Some time ago, read two books is Soto "super finishing" and "creative thinking", with a bit of emotion, want to share with you. I hope you will be able to read after the patient's own inspiration.

You 're pretty familiar with the sort of word , Sato in his book is the collation is more interesting, mainly hope that through the study of finishing, so that the work of the fine degree has been significantly improved, not to organize and tidy, but a "how to enjoy the comfort of life," the fundamental method. Then we will feel that from the desk space, work problems, and even interpersonal relationships and other situations have improved.

Remember he had in the book mentioned himself set up the studio, the General People first visit his studio, generally feel that the office design is very neat and tidy, this is attributed to his office environment Super finishing thinking.

The book mentions that he is sorting out the cases of carrying goods, from the beginning every day with a bag to go out, to finally boil down to only need wallet and mobile phone can, the middle of the choice process is very difficult, imagine myself, I particularly like to buy large bags, so that there is enough space to install a lot of daily not necessarily very need of temporary goods, This includes an umbrella, a cell phone charger, a note book, pack (there are many supermarkets or shops in the membership card) and so on, so that they have a sense of insecurity ..., (with each find things will be tossed and searched for a long time) read the book when you think of yourself, 0 wallet why not with the wallet, Why do so many cards in the card pack have to be carried every day, the phone can be used as a sticky note post function ... Although on the surface, these have little impact on our lives, and if it takes time to think about what to bring tomorrow with what may be very troublesome, but do these finishing work, not only can make the efficiency greatly improved, and the process of finishing is also very useful to themselves. You can't see the severity of what you need, temporary items too much, will only accumulate more and more, the original clear thinking because the items become more and less clear (so want to say is to distinguish important things thinking and method is very important) like this side of things, while setting priority training, if you can accumulate enough experience, The fineness of work must be improved.

And then to do their own page as an example, sometimes the idea came out, the material is also looking very good, I think it is perfect, but put on the page but there is always a feeling can not say. Remember before in the days when the cat, a senior taught me to do the page when the main text information put up, and then slowly add elements to improve the page, rather than the beginning of all the material piled up, and then slowly trade-offs, the process will be very difficult. It's a good idea to take a step back and look at your work. Keep the distance, see the priority order of the information (here I want to say is how to distinguish the importance of information on the ability to highlight it), on the page first to prioritize information, discard fancy decorative elements, to complex for Jane, Only the level of information expressed clearly in the above building blocks, to know how to discard, the surface form of creation is not equal to solve the problem of the fundamental way, to make the design to become a better link between the commodity and consumer communication design.

One thing you can mention here is that before you met a senior, he himself attaches great importance to the collation of the layer, many people may start to pay attention to the classification of the layer, but in the process of gradually forget the classification of the layer, often to the end to adopt a unified approach, but he did form from beginning to finish the good habit of finishing layers; Here also want to say is that he will also do the various effects of the finishing, for the next design to use similar effects can be directly used, very efficient one way.

Have always wanted to do more creative design, but now online performance is too much too much ... Sato also mentions memory labels in his book, can also be called as a memory engine-to the things they care about labeling, such as the usual search for someone else's work, feel that good material can be put in the brain of a label, a logo, a plane works, an illustration, a way of expression, Can be a source of material that inspires your inspiration in the future. "It is very important to try to look at problems from different perspectives, so I have been trying to look at the problem from different angles, of course, the creative should be combined with the design as a whole, can not violate the final starting point" this sentence is Sato wrote in the book.

It's important to organize your heart, worry about their feelings to write down, to their own task do not know how to start to continue as an example, the point of their inability to continue to write down, you can not continue from the reasons for what, List a few points, and then list the solutions can be resolved by what ... Maybe that's a good idea, too. Sometimes because of time, oneself and painfully do not have a little idea, the design can not continue, but imminent, try to clear their own thoughts also lose a very good way, only when their hearts calm down to do a good job ... Design always feel why other people always read do not understand the effective design, in fact, because they did not properly organize the heart want to express things, and the result is faithfully presented in the work, which extends to the communication, is what I want to say.

Using "Communication" to discover the true thoughts of each other

Let's take a look at Sato's book on his summary of the method of finishing an operation chart:

From the chart can be seen, the first step of all things is communication, the first step is to open the foundation of a good head, the foundation did not play well, the latter work is likely to be useless, so communication is really very important.

It is mentioned in Sato's book that the most appropriate way to do this is by constantly listening and thoroughly collating the subject and the content that is intended to be communicated. The prerequisite for this condition is that the other side of the improved product has a clear direction, knowing what you want and what is likely to be the case, or perhaps the other is that the other person doesn't know the direction of their product, then you need to constantly ask the other person a hypothesis, Gradually find the image in each other's mind, and make the other's unconscious turn conscious. This situation also often occurs in our design process, demand side is not clear what they need is what kind of effect, this time more need to listen to their demands, and then through constant rhetorical questions to determine the final appeal, the early communication is not in place, the work may encounter many unnecessary difficulties. This is also often encountered in the modification process, the simple modification of color, size, change location is only their experience in accordance with their own modifications proposed, and is not necessarily the best solution ... Because the final draft that you have been revising over and over again may not be the effect you want to start with, look at all the information points, whether it's the best way to say it. When the thoughts meet the bottleneck and feel that communication is difficult, try to change the angle of observation, may have unexpected results.

To complete a work, the requirements of your design can not be understood at the outset, this time to make your design language is particularly important, and strive to improve the language skills, so that their design to explain specialization. Of course, the result of the design is not to persuade others, but to arouse the sympathy of others, timely awareness to persuade each other, it is inevitable that in the future to incur the opposition.