Product design is highly dependent on experience and intuition

Letter 1:

I was a software project manager, spent more than 4 years, from the beginning of the product planning to the next operations director, and then the current project manager, facing a difficult choice for me is the right and money.

There has been a superior in me, I do not have many decision-making power in many things, a lot of ideas can not get attention. In money, made 4 years of products, salary is not as good as new product planning, the current basic salary is less than 6K (subsidies, bonuses what is not included).

I am very confused about this, think of leaving it, but reluctant to this product, after all, with so long still have feelings. How would you choose?

Letter two:

More than a year's product Wang, switched from operations, before playing with chicken blood, working overtime every day to do interactive writing documents, recently because of departmental changes, the environment changed drastically, some doubts about the current choice.

On the team atmosphere: big leaders do not understand the product, go some extra painstaking process, the basic four products do not communicate with each other, no brainstormes, no consultation.

About designers and front-end: The page is very important Ah, shrimp love to repeat the previous design, the current page compared with a year ago, is really the same, mentioning the point of view also think I did not look good. Tears run down!

About performance: The recent start of the assessment, the equivalent of a monthly demand for more, the more points. Originally, I had always made myself a prototype of a high-fidelity one, exercising myself familiar with the tools, and secondly accepting the development of demand. Now according to the assessment, it is impossible to keep up with those who do not prototype. Do not have to deduct wages.

Strange Shu for analysis, I continue to precipitate? Or go?

Letter three:

I am a female product Wang, I really like the product Wang this career, want to continue to do product Wang for many years. However, due to their immaturity, they have created too many short-term work experiences.

The first job is a well-known product, a total of 1 year and 6 months from the intern, a very happy period of time, and later in the airborne between me and the immediate leadership of a person, picky, face to face abuse, endure Nearly six months later, a little frustrated, determined to leave.

Next went to work for an ecommerce company and found that what she did was a cannon fodder project. Then took over another project, but also delayed development after the completion of the design, the whole person is half idle state. Only stayed for 6 months.

The third job was in the original reading industry, where the entire company was dominated by an editorial team and the product was almost exclusively responsible for editing ideas. Do their own station tasks, incentive systems, etc., out to the product group and more people look over, most of them are not recognized. Some of the company's decision-making, my research found that there is a problem, but the company only asked to do the implementation. Talking about when the company think I do not absorb their ideas, deferred, I left. Working for 4 months.

On the two jobs encountered in the situation, as a young childish product should be lurking patience, or decisive to give up Do not waste time?

There are three letters this week, talking about the same thing: the product is unhappy, the job change?

1,

I have done more than 4 years in Netease products, the first year the entire department are cannon fodder, the second year to sit on the cold bench, the last two years be considered "rationalize, let go." So my product is also accumulated in the following two years.

I myself have repeatedly thought of this issue. If I could not bear to steal a living for the first two years, jump to a better environment and grow faster, could I seize more opportunities? After all, has been done as a director, be completed in a comfortable environment product transformation, or go out from the grassroots in their 30s may not be able to stand, but may not be able to find a "better product environment", perhaps from a pit to another A pit ...

In the end, I had come for two years, whatever the outcome, "let go", the success of the transformation of the product, can be regarded as never-ending me. In the face of unknown fate, the choice is only a miss. Overall, if your distress has lasted for more than six months and then remains dim for the foreseeable next six months, you should consider leaving. Life is too short.

2,

When I was in Netease, Wang around a lot of good products, then I think Wang Yi products difficult to learn, the ceiling is not too high. I did not expect to find out after leaving, the average level of product Wang on the market is still low, the majority failed. Tai Wang friends cried with me - Kaopu Wang recalcitrant ah, to bear children are ah. We will discuss together, the product industry flourished in five or six years, how to settle down not down to talent?

First of all, Wang products are very natural, talent is not passionate, how hard will become bear children, and even greater enthusiasm for greater destructive power. Second, product development is very dependent on the project environment Wang growth, even if it is a good talent, being stupid boss staring at doing stupid projects, and finally will be scrapped, and good project environment is a minority.

What is a good project environment? The project itself has a certain rationality, resource allocation in place, colleagues work together, a solid schedule, the boss understand the product and decentralization, then regardless of the final result (in fact, most will fail) Are considered a good project. In short, a project that quickly validates the product's idea is a good project, and experience points roll up. Talented Xiao Wang toss a year or two, almost "from entry to proficient."

Unfortunately, the overall proportion of good projects is certainly less than 30%. I analyze this reason, mainly managers do not understand the product, decision-making layers lead to aliasing. After all, the rise of the product industry less than 10 years, Wang as a senior manager of the product is not enough, and since I think "I will use the product, of course, understand the product," the two-pole and a lot, plus self-styled product manager has become a high-level fashion ... ...

In the management, the appointment of subordinates often choose their most trusted people, but because of the rise of the product industry, the top familiar and trusted people are often not a product expert, and executives think I trust people are very suitable for products, or Although he does not fit right now, it does not take long for him to get used to it. Even worse, because the top do not understand the product, he even "what is the most suitable" is not good. As a result of the letter as described in the letter, on the one hand the proliferation of two-pole product executives, the other high-level product requirements may not be reasonable, such a project environment is of course despairing, the number of whole-death potential Xiao Wang.

3,

Three letters are mentioned and the boss has contradictory ideas are not taken seriously, product ideas conflict.

Since you wrote to me for advice, I should probably have the least sense of identity. But ... If some of my old colleagues who came into contact with me should be surprised to hear that "Guo Ziwei is a sucker." "Pull the details of a blind conductor." "Do a dead paragraph, where are the scourges."

Ha ha. Is the so-called "word of one side."

From this extension, from the concrete analysis of specific issues, I can not just rely on the letter that you never pregnant, the boss brutal stupid. Because I have also heard a lot of absurdity, Scratch Engineer's idea, but why they can not convince, for the inconvenience to heart for a long time.

Product design is highly dependent on experience and intuition, why you can do it, why you can not do it, and what you say is normal. If everything comes out with data to prove it, you waste a lot of research and development resources. In addition, all right, right, but the design differences in the case of a lot of, but the product can not be made into a hodgepodge, there must be a design style prevail.

So the fewer people the better to participate in product design and product decision-making. Once the product Wang Zhadui situation, most of the internal friction is serious, negative emotions.

Ashamed to say, I used to do a lot of innocent stupid, Scratch Engineer thing, stepping on the mine grew up. Then there will be Xiao Wang enthusiastic to mention the program, a look, this mine I stepped on ah, tell him why this is not done, do not believe, not to say that the environment is not the same, try again try again. At this time I will be very confused, he did not endure the frightening, I am afraid I can not understand the hurdle; but if my experience can not go on, each little king to toss around, fucking is outrageous, engineers It is also human.

Sometimes I think this may also be one of the reasons why there are not so many good products. In addition to talent, he had to make mistakes, bloody growth. But the company will not allow resources to be wasted, meaning power shredding on a handful of decision-makers in products has become mature in making mistakes, and then saves the company a mess of resource waste. Little Wang under them is not so good luck, only passively accept some (may be the right) program, but did not have the opportunity to cultivate this part of the experience and intuition from scratch.

The above analysis does not mean that the three letters of the letter must be wrong, and your boss is right. I just explain why many products will feel suppressed and denied. After all, fools know that the product to be subtracted right?

My old friend X, every time he refused to accept the boss's opinion, would find a few trusted friends, including me, to explain in detail the situation, throw AB two programs to let me choose, but not Who represents A, who represents B After several times of my choice, he was silent for a moment, saying that you and the boss had the same opinion. This attitude, of course, than cursed "my boss is sucker" much better.