My DIEP for the last project
The first semester is coming to an end. We had a very full semester. This is almost the same idea and plan for me before the beginning of school. The teacher arranged four projects for us, and a blog task every week. The start and end time of each project almost overlaps. Maybe we can learn from each other and have a great learning experience.
Taking the fourth project as an example, at the beginning of this project, I did a lot of research on the conscious consumption of my selected theme. In fact, there are not many specific and obvious presentations of this topic in my life. In the two minute quick speech of the first class, I inserted a lot of research results about my topic that I consulted. First of all, I consulted the definition and explanation of the word “conscious consumption”, but in fact, it is too broad, It contains a lot of explanations and definitions, so we need to find a specific and most interesting thing from our understanding of the word after a lot of research, and find the pain points of the matter, and use these pain points to make a complete project.
After reading a lot of cases about conscious consumption on the Internet, I found that most netizens would classify conscious consumption as people’s spending money on shopping, as well as various business marketing means, etc. In the process of reading a lot, I found a point that I am very interested in. It is also my own problem, that is, people also have impulsive and unconscious consumption in conscious consumption. I really want to design a product, which can reflect people’s conscious consumption and impulsive consumption in different environments, resulting in many idle items due to repeated shopping. At the same time, this situation is very obvious in China’s first tier cities. I live in Shanghai, China. Most young people in this city want to buy luxury goods to satisfy their vanity, but many luxury goods are very expensive but not practical. They often put it aside after showing off, ignoring it, forming a waste of resources. This leads me to a novel idea. I think most people who impulsively buy luxury goods will regret it.
For example, it’s very difficult to find new models of this brand in the current season. After people rush to buy them, they find that they don’t want them and they don’t like them very much. They just follow the trend. Then, luxury goods are hard to maintain their value and are not practical, Many people just waste their money to buy an idle item to take up space at home. What if you can change the style you don’t like for the one you like? Everyone’s appreciation level is different. When you think this style is not your style, but others want to have it very much, can you design a social software to exchange luxury goods with each other at the same price, so that all resources can be reused, which has the same reason as garbage collection.
After having the idea, I will continue to conduct a second research on my idea direction. I interviewed my friends who like to buy luxury goods, and sent out a questionnaire at the door of the luxury goods store. I got some interesting ideas and suggestions. That is, when many fashion experts buy luxury items, they often feel distressed because they like the item very much, but they don’t have the right collocation. My idea at that time was to design a smart AI mirror that can automatically match the most fashionable and luxury items for today’s clothing.
When you stand in front of the mirror, your fashion items will be displayed in the mirror, and then you click the collocation you want to know the most, there will be many different fashion collocations in the mirror. You just need to choose your favorite one to match and buy, isn’t it good? Don’t waste money and resources because of impulsive consumption. Many of my classmates in the same group also do the theme of conscious consumption. After a little communication, we found that everyone really felt that the theme was very broad, and we could only do more in-depth research according to our own understanding and interests.
If I design a product that can help people save resources, resource exchange is also a kind of conscious consumption, which is equivalent to the exchange of goods in ancient China. When there was no money at that time, people exchanged what they needed, which was also a conscious form of purchase.
Next, I took my camera and went on a field trip to a luxury goods store. I found that people who buy luxury goods are between 20 and 32 years old, so I began to look for people of this age to conduct special interviews. After I got some pain points, I started thinking about my product. The problems I need to solve and the frontal pain points I need to study. A lot of research has helped me a lot. This experience makes me feel that if we want to make a very excellent product to be recognized by people, it must be based on the usual careful research and research of people, in-depth understanding of people’s needs and pain points, and then design and development. I think the interaction design is effective.
In a project, the first thing to configure is a good project manager and a good product manager.
A good project manager can ensure the normal implementation of the project, make the choice and coordination of resources and capabilities. If the suck is not enough, the resources will be seriously inadequate or the staff in the project team will be constantly on the run. Or the resources are not provided in time, which oppresses the working hours of the follow-up process staff and has to work overtime.
A good product manager can think and analyze the product at the beginning of the project, understand the user needs and business scenarios, and give reliable product planning solutions. For a generalist or engineer, it is not necessary to have a reliable product solution to start work and complete the work to 80%. But the remaining 20% still need product documentation to determine the final experience details.
After the project manager and product manager are identIfied, a good test is needed,Good testing ensures the bottom line of the project, so that there won’t be too big a problem. Testing can stop all kinds of problems before the project is released. Avoid big mistakes after going online. Testing determines the bottom line of the project, so a good test is necessary.
With the bottom line guaranteed, the next step is to raise the ceiling. The upper limit here, for users, is mainly determined by the product, design and UE. Therefore, if you want to raise the upper limit of the project, a good design and UE is necessary.
Good design and UE can make your project achieve the best experience, so as to improve the upper limit of your project and get better user evaluation.
The help of these learning experiences for my course is that I have a better understanding of the steps and key points of a project. The most important thing of a complete project is the process, not the result. The final result may be modified over and over again, but the original idea and research direction can not be easily changed. The initial model and direction need to be supported by a large number of different ways and directions of research before starting the project.
If I want to be an interaction designer and product manager in the future, these experiences will be of great help to me now. Whenever I need to start a new project, the idea and a lot of research are very necessary, of course, also need to have excellent technical support. In my whole project 4, I think the most work I do is the preliminary research work. I collect all the information and materials I need one by one, so that I can start my next research. This is reflected in the fact that when I was designing my app function, I found a lot of pain points during the research period, and found the solutions they expected and the problems they encountered through interviews and Research on the characters. The final output took me a quarter of the time I spent preparing in the early stage and the whole project process. I think this kind of project experience is really helpful for my future career development.
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【1】What is most important in a project? Punishment of Bai Huan .Thinking without evil