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Let’s start with a popular science article. What is the ideal result from zhihu UI? The article was written by Xia Bingying, a designer from Google.
Original: www.zhihu.com/question/39…
The following is from xia Laoshi’s article:
First of all, I would like to say that the position of UI Designer has become increasingly rare in the United States. Instead, there are titles such as Interaction Designer, UX Designer and Product Designer. There isn’t much difference between the three titles in practice, and their usage varies from company to company, but overall American design has gone through a process of moving from a focus on visual (UI) to a focus on the complete product experience (UX). (In many established companies, such as Bi Factory, the official title of the Designer in the system is still UI Designer, but no one actually says so anymore.)
The concept of full-stack Designer refers to a designer who can understand and operate all aspects of product development, from preliminary user research to interactive flow planning, wirefraction, design draft, prototype, user testing, and even front-end development. Now more companies hope to recruit such designers, and there are more and more such designers in the industry, many fresh graduates have this ability. In such an environment, the concept of a pure UI designer who just does what the product manager tells him to do is completely outdated. Ux-pm-engineers are the three pillars of a product at a company and most silicon Valley tech companies I know. Just as @Yao Sun said in his answer, as a designer, your responsibility is not to follow the instructions of PM and engineer, but to be responsible for the experience of the whole product from beginning to end as an equal partner.
(This answer was last edited on January 16, 2016)
In addition, there are a lot of friends do not agree with Li zi’s point of view and abuse ~
Can classmates abuse me thousands of times, I want to treat students as the first love.
Because the praise of many people scold many people, it shows that this problem is worth our time to discuss.
This girl just graduated from the so-and-so school where Li works. She has the basis of illustration. After two years of operation design, she found that there was no room for improvement. She landed a job at Microsoft (a big company, for now) and had several other offers from big companies.
As the first student in our school to work in a big company (though not BAT) at the beginning of 2016, Li zi summed up a lot of successful experience from her, one of which is that you can really try to hit a big company only if you have a solid foundation and then get training and improvement.
Li Zi in a certain degree of MUX a senior brother said, after a certain degree of last year to stop recruitment, a certain li Baba in this year also began to tighten recruitment, now to cast resume what, what play.
Another goose farm we all know it is difficult to enter at the beginning, UI is the most popular time, chestnut teacher in 13 years can take out a class 6 students into Baidu (data gorgeous explosion table), but there is no one can successfully squeeze into the goose farm. (Of course, maybe because the goose factory people in Shenzhen)
Now a lot of students who are learning UI, when they come, they are all grandiose words, saying that after graduation, they just want to go to QQ or wechat and so on, but to say a blow, this road is very difficult, very difficult, difficult to 2016 is almost impossible.
On the pull hook BAT levels of the company seems to have been hiring, but after we resume is essentially a rejection, many students think that because of working life, but you can do a test, write more working fixed number of year, try to write a working fixed number of year 100, from your grandpa’s grandpa then began to do the UI, and of course this is exaggerated, Write for 5-6 years and see what happens. But eventually they won’t even talk to you.
This is because
You! Want to! Wrong! !
Because big companies aren’t what you think they are!
Let’s start with a few dark nuggets about big companies
First, it’s not that big companies don’t mind your training.
Ignore you depend on you to a great extent whether is beautiful courtyard or famous school graduate, at least also need is relevant major, for instance vision communicates major, art is relevant major, medium is relevant major even computer major is waited a moment, rightness, need is undergraduate course! If you are from Hong Kong or some other evil capitalist country it is even better. If you have a master’s degree, a PhD is even better. Double Masters in Industrial Design, Interaction design, Stanford University. Well, it feels like flying. Yes, your education and your academic background are important. (chestnut has scared the urine when saying this, can anticipate a wave of rotten eggs and lousy persimmon smashed, but chestnuts is to prick the layer of paper, because the reality is very naked, face up to him, have a chance of breakthrough, from the perspective of big companies, they don’t want no one have a resume, but need to keep on talent selection is not a problem, so do really right ~ ~)
Second, the interview cycle in big companies is usually longer.
Li Zi knew an HR employee who told me that the resumes of large companies are quite heavy, but it is normal to have thousands of resumes and no time to process them every day. So even if your resume is out there, it can take a long time to call you for an interview.
What’s more, the recruitment information of big companies written on some top recruitment platforms are mostly fraudulent because they don’t recruit from this channel. One of Her junior students went to Momo and found out that they don’t actually hire from the resumes they send out, they just hang them up and find designers on Behance and Dribbble. Other friends of some big companies also reflect that this is indeed the case. They generally have internal recommendation channels for recruitment. Of course, internal recommendation only compresses the time, and internal recommendation is not effective when the staff is full.
You’ll be given a quiz after the interview. The content of the test is commonly, redesign a their interface, redraw their ICONS, a guide page ah, such as difficult to something such as a simple prototype for you to let you make an interface, there some news of the test in general are more serious will give you the PDF, ali and baidu are generally give a email attachments, a picture is pulled down, The test time is generally 5 working days, the middle will be more humanized between a Saturday and a day. Some other famous companies such as a soft this kind of foreign enterprise, the test is all in English, and are the pressure test, send test questions within 4 hours you have to reply, and then ask for a full English reply. (So it seems that chestnut’s teacher sister is good TM fierce.) There is a teacher sister in a flap reaction a flap test is more interesting, is similar to do a very interesting small application, the specific content is not convenient to say, in short, so many large companies in the most interesting.
If I contact you a week or two after the test is over, forget it. If I don’t, forget it. And don’t send e-mails asking for friendship dinners, that’s not going to work! (Why do I know this?) After these three passes, audition resume, initial, test questions basically you! It! A little bit of it is done
A senior who went to a certain wave told me that when he had a drink with a director he knew well during the Spring Festival, he asked how he was selected, and his supervisor’s answer was drawn by lots among several good people… The draw. Damn it… Yes, successful people are the 1% and the 1%. 99% luck…
All interviews have to pass, you even pray to have a position, it is formal work out, because of the reason of a few black boxes, you can go in as outsourcing likely, it is where you work, there is a position, there are public cards, there are seats, but without work out! Beside the point, it’s pro! When!!! Work!!! Well, the overlords of a thousand chosen temporary workers, which is actually pretty cool when you think about it.
Third, big companies are not as good as you think.
While there are all kinds of amenities you’d love to have, like a pool hall, a billiard table, and a video game console, there’s basically no time for that during work hours. And the salary of the big company, cough cough, this year just into a soft sister’s salary, her Microsoft salary than her other offer less 6K – 8K, you did not hear wrong, less 8K!
A lot of other companies are all sorts of overtime work because of achievement reason, baidu building last year was also called not night building, there is a sudden death right…
And there is a very clear elimination system inside some big companies, what is called elimination system, it is the kind of annual indicators to roll a… Yeah, one of them has to go! Last place eliminated!
Therefore, the pressure will be very high, there is a teacher’s sister working in wechat said, often see a girl with a master’s degree secretly crying at the desk at night. In addition, a project often has a lot of people to do, the company has to do all kinds of drafts, every time to carry out a variety of sharing. These are all done in free time outside of work. Sometimes, if a project is not assigned to your group, only your group will do it. If other groups do well, they will use the things of other groups. The same company will fight each other. And you…
I want to do something every day need all kinds of writing emails, some places are also TM English, mail, all kinds of cc, all kinds of meetings. It doesn’t matter to you, you have to listen very carefully… All right.
What? After all chestnut said, you still want to go?
The classmate that training comes out must squeeze hard big company how dead knock!
Secret rule 1:
Be sure to build some social reputation, such as you at least have a chase wave number. You have to be a cool fan. You u should at least enter a competition, and a ranking would be even better. This time is often 3-4 months training time simply can not do. But sincerity is necessary.
Secret rule two:
You have to be very able to say, resume has been screened in the past, you have to start bayonet, what iphone5-6 how a draft fit, what MD design is what, what H5 and HTML5, what VR, AR various R, what O2O, B2C, C2C various 2, you have at least read a few books, You should at least have seen “Design Psychology,” “Don’t Make Me Think,” and “About Face 3.” You should at least know what colors are in 2016. It’s the accumulation of knowledge that sets you apart from rapid training!
To quote from the first article, big companies need you to have strong comprehensive qualities, they need t-shaped talents, even if you are fresh graduates, you only know UI but don’t know UX, because visual is only part of the user experience. And this ratio will be more and more obvious as time goes on, by this year, only design, nothing else, basically no play.
Secret rule three:
What… We’ll have to wait until number three to get to your portfolio. That’s right. Honestly,, you usually have to submit your portfolio first to get the interview invitation, the first two, in fact, after this, but the portfolio is more difficult. So I put it here.
First of all, you need to prepare two sets of works, one set of Keynote into the iPad for the interview (or other tablets), one set of PDF (within 10M) on the Internet to send to him, the work set to reflect your comprehensive quality and some possibilities, but more importantly, must be fine! Be fine! Be fine! In other words, don’t put anything you don’t like in there, because you’re going to have your show on a projector screen, in a dark room, with a bunch of people working long hours, looking like they can’t get the fuck out of work, and I don’t care if I hire someone. Why am I here to watch this? I’m going to find fault with the scum who made me work overtime and the designers who are going to find fault with you. Basically every work must be carefully to buckle, especially the alignment relationship, whether fuzzy deformation, font word spacing line spacing unity, safety area, grid system and so on primary problems, do not make mistakes, wrong is finished. And make sure that even if you miss a few pieces, don’t put all of them. Put an ugly bannner to prove you made a banner, put an ugly three-fold to prove you made a plane, that’s not handing in homework! Give me more! Remember that! You must redesign your resume, don’t believe what your training school comes out with. There are hundreds of people in one school, and all of them have the same portfolio and case study, and you can find a job. Heck, especially when I see some portfolio has the design of Apple watch, or even the design of windowsphone. Or the design of apple TV.
Secret rule four:
On the performance level, things are still easy to learn. But speaking of learning methods, let’s reveal our secrets (so core things, please don’t deduct my salary).
Unspoken rules:
In the interview questions, we generally choose complicated answers, which generally means that there are not only effect drawing packaging, but also video, audio, video, as well as their own voice explanation, all in order to let others feel that you are serious and studious, you should not underestimate this studious, There was a guy who went into the goose farm because he wanted to learn. And before you must seriously study the product of which department you want to interview, must ask you to point out their product problem on the spot, what? No problem? Sure. What can I do for you? What questions are particularly numerous? Kid, you’re crazy. You’ll have to figure that out for yourself. In addition, if you have a good conversation, try to ask more questions and add wechat, and then ask questions about the interview or the work. Let the designer who interviewed you get involved, he will pay more attention to your growth and progress.
So that’s what we’ve learned, blood and tears.
Said in the end, again by the way, training the line like we Chinese people go abroad, is always more or less being discriminated against, or like the no black brain maps, said from henan, the northeast people need, my hometown is in the northeast, chestnut every heard these biases in the mind feel quite awkward, people of all big company for training of judah will avoid it like the plague, How can there be so many students with a bachelor’s degree? Besides, three months of training is useless. Designers should pay more attention to the work and strength, and in the end, it should be the work and strength that speak, not the background.
