Interlacing is like interlacing mountains, this sentence everyone is familiar with, but in fact interlacing is not terrible, everyone seeks its matter, each does his duty, but also do not disturb each other, really terrible is, is an expert also subject to layman to guide jiangshan, and the most difficult part, is that communication. Smooth communication, harmony, is like the rain of the time; Ineffective communication, strong words, is more than half a sentence.
Speaking of communication difficulties, many people are bound to have feelings, and UI designers are a typical group of helpless pain. There are client father and party A outside, product manager and siege lion inside, obviously just want to do the design quietly, but to spend most of the energy on communication and collaboration.
What are the moments that break UI designers?
Crash scene 1: Party A’s father gives advice and changes the 999 version or uses the first version.
“Soon, make the font smaller and the logo bigger, and that’s it!”
“Well, it’s not big enough. Look at the tall design. It’s simple, but it’s powerful.”
“These are for your reference. This is what it feels like.”
Every UI designer’s ears are bombarded with these words. Customer language is too difficult to understand, and it is even more sad to meet customers who do not understand their profession. UI designers never know what the customer needs, and they have to constantly change what is wrong. The most helpless thing is, after working overtime and staying up late, the father of the customer said – “or change back to the first draft!” This can completely break every UI designer in an instant!
Crash scene two: friends and family together, free artists no doubt.
“Photoshopped these photos for me, just use Photoshop, quick, blah, blah!”
“You are doing design, this decoration how, help aunt look.”
“I need to make a flyer. It’s easy. It’s not that fancy.
These requests are really tearless. Related requests, when you eighteen martial arts can be done in minutes, holding the human free press; Irrelevant request, but also when you learn art is not fine, hard to say comrade still need to work hard. Can a UI designer, physically and mentally exhausted, not break down?
Breakdown scenario 3: I finished the exquisite design draft in half a month, and finished all the annotation and cutting map manually in one month. I felt tired and didn’t love it.
Finally, I took on a big project and gave full play to my abilities, including chromology, psychology, painting skills, design principles and design specifications. Finally, I achieved the highest level of every detail in the overall design of interface, ICON, plane composition, layout design, operation logic and human-computer interaction. I thought the work was perfect, but I had to mark the size and distance of each element by stitch, like a woman with a needle, and manually cut the map for the siege lion. Finally, looking at the dense annotation map, I do not recognize that this is my own design draft. My heart is broken and sad.
Breakdown scenario 4: The product manager’s requirements are in a fog, but I don’t seem to understand them. Could you communicate with me and tell me what you really want?
Product manager and boss head a hot, head a clap, the original interface will be changed in the next second, product demand display is not clear, UI designers even mask with guess drawing manuscript, a day three questions, not to ask, but still a sentence, not so. Working like this every day, UI designers are dying.
Collapse scenario 5: The product is often iterated, and the more upgraded THE App is, the more chaotic it is, and there is no consistency. The leader asks: Why not organize the design resources to unify and standardize?
Lack of consistency has always been a mistake that many UI designers will standardize. Sometimes, customers are not satisfied with the APP and need to redesign to improve the visual effect and user experience. However, how can a change become a new thing? At this time the boss will ask: how not to organize the design resources? Why not design specifications?
Who knows what a huge job it is to organize design resources? At this time UI designer, one side grievance, one side self-review, the whole person is also very bad.
Crash scenario 6: The maximum appearance level design is finally delivered, after the siege lion code is typed, etc., why don’t you recognize it?
The design draft is finished, the annotation is marked, the cut map is also cut, the key point is also said, how can the siege lion original appearance level outstanding design draft into a crowd of roadside APP, the crowd will not look at it twice? What about the work of UI designers? Every UI designer will feel the pain of seeing an unrecognizable APP like an old mother who sees her child’s dirty face being bullied. The most frustrating, this pot, a lot of time also have to UI designer back, who call you missed a parameter?
These are a few examples of moments that can bring UI designers to their knees. UI designers, what have you been through? Here, since put forward the above problem, might as well follow the steps, find the reason behind, the right medicine, can cure the disease.
Let’s start with an idealized process for a product:
As you can see from the figure above, each part of a product is extremely important: product, design, development, testing and operation. The UI designer is an essential part of this process. If it’s part of it, then you can start at the core and hit the right target. The easiest and most effective way for a UI designer to play his or her role is to do his or her own upstream and downstream. Thus, the UI designer’s job is to communicate and deliver.
On top, the product manager, the UI designer needs to define the product requirements; Yes, it’s the siege lion, and UI designers have to deliver their designs in their entirety.
However, in the real situation, the delivery of each link of the product is accompanied by difficulties in communication, coordination and low efficiency. If you can solve the communication and collaboration problem, you can free UI designers from the tedious process and focus on design and thinking.
Fortunately, someone is keeping a close eye on the user experience designers, there have been a part of the tool, can provide people with an efficient collaboration platform that supports automatic notation and cut figure, no heavy document every link of product production, all the delivery and communication, to a platform, together into one document.
Copy guest iDoc, is one of these tools outstanding.
First and foremost, it is an intelligent tagging/cutting tool that helps UI designers easily deliver their work. Its core features include:
L Upload the design with one click
L Support Sketch, PS, XD design manuscript and design drawing
L Annotation and cut map automatically generated, no need to do manually
L Design specifications can be automatically sampled and generated, and classified management, synchronous application and one-click export of design style guide are also available
This saves UI designers from two major crashes. First, UI designers no longer have to spend more time manually annotating and cutting images than they do designing, which can be said to be a great liberation of efficiency. Second, intelligent annotation and map cutting, one button upload, siege lion can easily view anytime and anywhere, such communication, than pointing to the annotation map hard explanation is much more convenient, can be said to be silent than sound.
In addition, iDoc can:
L Display percentage labeling;
L Select multiple layers at one time for intelligent annotation;
L Automatically download multiple or all cut diagrams;
L For duplicate elements in a page, you can view them with one click.
This greatly reduces communication costs, improves efficiency, and reduces development cycles. Not only the UI designers, but also the front-end developers.
Secondly, iDoc is a faster and simpler platform for collaborative design. It can bring together the core product personnel, namely product managers, designers and engineers. From product, design to development, only one document is needed. It can:
L Overall panel display process;
L Page task completion is clear;
L A variety of annotation styles, better express ideas and opinions;
L Interactive demonstration is fast and convenient, supporting a variety of animation effects;
L Supports multiple prototypes (Axure, Justinmind, Mockplus) and various documents, with direct online preview.
In this way, the bridge between UI designer and product manager is completely built, the product manager can well express the product requirements, UI designer can maximize the acceptance, no matter what prototyping tool the product manager draws the prototype, can be viewed in iDoc, saving thousands of tedious.
Finally, there are some unique features of Copycat iDoc that make your team work together effectively:
L Meticulous: you can pop up a magnifying glass to view the labels of small distances;
L More practical: automatic conversion of units of different equipment, more in line with the actual needs;
More efficient: automatically organize the color, text size (style, etc.) used in the page into design specifications.
It is reported that us guest iDoc will design system integration, and a copy to designer farewell manual sorting design specification, so that an APP, the designer used a font, color, logo, ICONS and other elements, can automatically adjust to design resources, generate design specifications, for UI designers, believe that this is a great liberation. Design consistency problem, easy to solve.
As a matter of fact, being a designer is an enviable position for everyone. I know many students who want to be an imaginative and creative UI designer. While UI designers have their own tales of helplessness, such as working overtime, taking the blame, and being misunderstood, UI designers are an amazing profession, and a fascinating one at that. I believe that every UI designer will feel honored to see a popular App designed by himself.
For those who have collapse or designer that is on the brink of collapse, I hope you can adjust the mentality, more confident to face every challenge, of course, also want to start the brain, use efficient tools, let oneself free from multifarious, in this way, you didn’t have enough time to think and design, create beauty, and create value!