Put the design into the box for an hour

Everyone will feel that being a designer is an interesting job. Because every day we are doing creative design. Of course, that means: with passion and inspiration all day. (laughter) but nothing is always going to be smooth, sometimes we can not find the state, the mind empty, completely unexpected any good ideas. This situation is also particularly easy to come up with at a critical moment in designing a project, or when you need to reflect your design level. (This sounds very miserable ~ ~) We all have more or less encounter such a low tide time. Of course, when the design goes down, each of us has our own way to dissolve it: either give yourself a day off, or have a big meal, read a book or talk to a friend. But these methods are not always feasible ~ ~ So what can we do to avoid such a difficult time?

What I want to share with you here is a way of putting the design in an hour of the box.

Its advantages:

1, will not spend a lot of time

As a designer, how to complete the work according to the planned quality is one of the important tasks in our daily work. At the beginning of our work, we will develop the corresponding http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/7129.html "> work schedule and complete the work according to the plan." However, our schedule is usually rough (e.g., * * * * PM, design 3 different styles of the main interface to participate in the review). However, there is an obvious problem with such a plan, for example, by the noon of the day, found that the design has been very tired, and it seems that these sets of designs deviate from the original design idea. But you have no way to start a new project again. (Cup with AH ~)

So every one hours of work, stop and look back at this hour of work. The benefits of this are obvious, because we can review our design direction, design priorities and design results every one hours. This can also greatly improve efficiency. If we find that there has been a deviation, then we now have plenty of time to adjust. This is very helpful to the further development of our design work.

2, let you make periodic decision in time

It can be stressful to arrange your work in a one-hour unit. Because this will give us a "must complete" mentality. But that's not a bad thing. It has a positive effect: you will have to make a decision about your current design work so that you avoid wasting time pursuing or aimlessly experimenting with different design ideas. You can also avoid spending too much time and energy in the wrong direction.

In the process, we are constantly thinking, "is this going to work?" Can you achieve the desired effect? "This constant scrutiny allows us not to deviate from the design objectives, so clear ideas and save time." If a decision is wrong, the error can be detected in a timely manner at the end of each hour and then adjusted. This is very beneficial to the final completion of our design work.

3, hourly "results"

Because we spend every hour of our time and energy setting goals and rules, and follow it. In this way, every hour of work becomes very important, and what you do in this hour is clear. Does this design look good? To meet the needs of the product? The answer is clear, and the work done is obvious.

At this point, the design will be very natural molding, because time is limited, it reduces the visual fatigue of this design opportunities. (laughter) A good design, not only visually stimulate the eyeball, the most important thing is: it must meet the functional needs of the product. Because the time is fixed, so ~ ~ ~ design is "suppressed" out, so ...

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Here are a few steps you need to take:

1, prepare a timer you love!

Any timer you think you can use. The most important thing is that it's interesting. Because we all know that there are a few examples of late in the morning when the alarm goes down to sleep. (laughter) So it has to be able to get your attention and let you stop working to face it.

In addition, what you need most is to give your brain a alarm, after all, adhere to is our true magic weapon.

2. Make sure your plan is effective!

When you start a design, it's good to use a whiteboard or Notepad to write down all the requirements, or to put them on a sticky note on the edge of the display.

Write down some keywords, such as "Landing interface of 3 buttons", preferably plus one or two sentence description, to make themselves more clear to design content, so that the design ideas will be clear. We can also note the early ideas of the very specific design that is taken into account. Write down the font styling or color matching program you want to take now. Don't limit yourself, the more you write here, the more careful you are, the clearer things we can see.

Perhaps product managers or interaction designers have given us wireframe or sketch? Then put all this in your notes. Now, the design we're planning is starting to take shape, and we're going to keep taking it out regularly to fix what's going wrong in the upcoming design.

3, inspire their own inspiration!

Our minds must be filled with interesting ideas, inspiring designs, interesting concepts and unique implementations. But we also need to refer to the design of other products of the same type, or to the broader design of foreign horizons (either a complete design for others or a part of a design) to complete the current design.

It's not about plagiarism or copying another designer's job. This is done just to get the inspiration for our creations at the end of our design. See how other designers have faced the same design as you. "How did they do it?" "Can I do better?" ”

Also, we look at competitors in our products. Have they done better in some way, and more so that users like it? If so, we need to think about how to do better than them. If not, ask yourself: what part of them is lacking?

These thoughts have made us start to innovate. Asking yourself these questions is helpful in determining the direction and purpose of our work and can prevent us from getting bogged down in unnecessary thinking.

Finally, we collected the design that gave us inspiration and put it into a special folder. or print it out.

4, Design!

This is the most important part and the most basic part: the design process itself.

When we have clear thinking and a concise and clear design outline, we can put "design into the box for an hour". Let's open the timer now and start designing!

Plan a goal now and put in the most fulfilling design work we can do in one hours. In fact, not that each design must be completed within 1 hours. Sometimes a design is done in 2-4 hours. At this time, I suggest that you divide a few hours of design into small steps per hour, (such as the first hour to determine the icon line, the second hour to determine the color and adjust the icon and interface consistency), so the division will have a lot of benefits. 1, we always know the time clearly. 2, we will focus on the things in front of us, because we only have one hours.

Here is a point to note: In this hour, we are serious and focused on the design, not in a hurry to do. It is also very important to know what decisions are right and what should be done, and not to change the goals in the plan, which may lead us back to the old road, lead to waste of time and lead to undesirable results.

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It takes a while to get into the habit of designing on an hourly basis, maybe we should try to do two or three design projects with it. Once adapted to this method, we will feel that the design work and design capabilities are very clear in their own control.

We can provide consistent and reliable design for every project or product we are responsible for. We would also like to work for ourselves. Like an advertising word "All in the grasp", in this comfortable state of mind, what worries no creative inspiration?

PS: This method is also what I learned from other designers. It's not a magical thing to make your design perfect, but it's a small way to make the most of your time and minimize the negative effects of the outside world. And I've been using it and it feels really effective. You can also use your own habits to adjust and use it. If you think it really works, please share it with your friends. (*^__^*))

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