Unexpectedly, due to the impact of the epidemic, I finally realized my wish for many years: to earn money while lying at home.
In response to the country’s call to prevent the spread of the virus and protect the health of employees, many companies have recently adopted remote working mode. The copycat team has also made it through their first week of telecommuting, realizing all the scenarios they dreamed about countless times before.
In general, the feeling that telecommuting brings to me and my colleagues is one word: cool!
But after a week’s work, many Internet companies have encountered a number of problems affecting efficiency. Recently, on various social platforms, it is common to see product design team members making jokes: Telecommuting communication difficulties, product design efficiency is greatly reduced, it is impossible to keep video or voice uninterrupted during working hours, right? That’s terrible!
Therefore, based on our team’s work in the past week, I interviewed several partners in the team, hoping to share some of our telecommuting experience with the product design team from the perspective of product manager, designer, development engineer and team manager.
The product design team is different from other industries. The design work of the team is carried out around the output products such as project documents, prototype drawings and hi-fi design drafts. It is difficult for the general IM software to give full play to the cooperation efficiency between the product design team. Therefore, our team uses the Copyer online design collaboration platform specially designed for product design teams to work remotely, which can help product managers, designers and development engineers to collaborate efficiently and seamlessly. With smooth communication, all difficulties will be easily solved.
So how exactly do we do that? Listen to this:
PART 1
DJ, product Manager: Telecommuting keeps me from getting yelled at
In our team, I was responsible for a very complex work, and needed to communicate and cooperate with design and development departments at any time. If there is any problem in the project due to communication, I will be the first one to be flooded with saliva.
Using copycat to carry out online collaborative design, communication, than before eight meetings a day work much more efficient. Not only could I maintain efficient communication among all departments, but also all the feedback could be documented, which increased my confidence to urge the development to correct bugs.
It can be said that Keym online design collaboration platform has realized many of my requirements for efficient communication and collaboration:
1. Write and manage product documentation: at the beginning of the project, I usually according to their own good requirements, create the sums the guest platform project, rapid prototype build good project, and directly use copy online writing product documentation and direct reference prototype figure accurately, and share links with other team colleagues, online to complete the review.
2. Combing product logic: AFTER making the prototype drawing in Axure and Adobe XD, I will directly upload it to the copywriter. In the full picture drawing board, I will use logical lines and logical lines to describe, so that designers and development engineers can better understand product logic.
3. Online review: WHEN reviewing prototypes and designs, I use a variety of comments and pushpins to provide my feedback. In some key areas, I also directly refer to relevant documents and links in the comments to help designers better understand product requirements.
All in all, Copy not only helps our team improve the efficiency of telecommuting communication and collaboration, but also makes full use of its convenient function for product managers, and allows me to work in a more organized way.
PART 2
Zenzo, DESIGNER: Working from home is just a matter of having a different person standing behind you
For us designers, there’s not much difference between working from home and working in a company. If you’re working on a portable device like a Macbook, coupled with a professional delivery tool like a follower, telecommuting may seem like “business as usual,” with a few more “melon eating masses” with fruit bowls at their backs.
Our daily work is mainly to complete the design draft and high-fidelity delivery according to the requirements sorted out by the product manager. However, design software such as PS, Sketch and Adobe XD can only help us complete the initial design. The biggest problem with working from home is that you can’t communicate with your team in real time, and voice or video conferencing is ultimately not as effective as face-to-face communication.
Fortunately, we have been working on the Mick online design collaboration platform for a long time, and this product can help us easily go through the high communication costs of requirements confirmation, design draft review and delivery, such as:
1. Quick production of high-fidelity interactive prototypes: First of all, after designers complete their designs in PS, Sketch and Adobe XD, they can upload them directly to the Online design collaboration platform of Copyer through plug-ins, and quickly convert them into interactive high-fidelity prototypes without the need to produce high-fidelity prototypes separately.
2. Online review of the design draft: after the design draft is uploaded, team members can directly make comments on the design draft and give feedback. Designers directly according to the comments to modify and optimize, and mark the solution, no longer need to hold a discussion meeting.
3. Version comparison and management: The design draft can be synchronized directly after modification. At the same time, the Online design collaboration platform of Mocker will automatically generate the historical version, which can be traced back to the previous version at any time, and you can also use the comparison function of Mocker design draft to compare different versions and check whether there are problems.
4. Fast delivery of design draft: The intelligent annotation method of Mich online design collaboration platform can accurately convey the design specification, and the development engineer can also independently obtain the cut drawing of different platform sizes, so the designer can directly deliver the draft after finalization.
Use copy online design collaboration platform, not only to ensure the quality and efficiency of remote office work, but also to help me more easily to deliver the design draft, strongly recommend!
PART 3
Barry, Development engineer: Code in the best possible position
I am a copy from a development engineer, telecommuting, in addition to video meeting need to keep to put on AIRS, most of the time, I and my friends all work in a variety of exotic flowers and comfortable postures, tired cat eat a snack lu lu, sleepy just freshen up exercise, work feel very boring, also can open the audio open disco dancing mode, in a move at times, I felt like I was typing code faster…
Thousands of words, the key is to type code…
Whether I work at the company or at home, my job is to accurately reproduce the design draft: communicate with the designer before development to clarify the product logic; During development, you need to see accurate UI annotations and phase diagrams; Once the page is built, send it to product manager and designer for review. Any error in any of these links may affect the final rendering of the page.
Moke online design collaboration platform, with powerful automatic annotation of design draft, cut diagram and intelligent code output functions. It can help us improve work efficiency and restore design draft more easily under the premise of ensuring quality:
1. Quick understanding of product logic: development engineers can communicate with product managers and designers in real time on the Online design collaboration platform of Mike, and at the same time, with the overall picture drawing board, product documents and design draft, quickly understand product business processes and interactive logic.
2. Free view of annotation information: The development engineer can freely view the accurate annotation and layer marking information in the design draft, and can also automatically generate style codes, which can be directly copied and used, simplifying the development workflow;
3. One-click download cutting map: cutting map files can be downloaded with one click, support free switching platform and selection ratio, also support cutting map compression and conversion of different platform sizes, more convenient development, from the cutting map problem can be completely solved by yourself, no longer need to repeatedly trouble the designer.
These practical functions of copyer not only help me to save a lot of repeated and ineffective communication, but also help me to simplify the development process to a certain extent, so that I can maintain a high work efficiency, and the development task can be completed according to quality and quantity naturally.
PART 4
BOSS: What worries you about using your own products
For team managers, the biggest problem with telecommuting is staff and project management. It is because of these factors that the online design collaboration platform of Copycat emerges at the historic moment. For example, in the process of telecommuting, the Online design collaboration platform of Mick helped me to achieve efficient remote management:
1. Team member permission management: set corresponding permissions for employees in different departments. Access and edit permissions can be set for a single project.
2. Real-time view of team and project dynamics: Real-time view of the latest team and project dynamics, to help team managers control team dynamics and the development of different projects.
3. Project task management: The status and progress of the page can be marked in the overall drawing board and project tree, which is convenient for me to know the progress of the project design task in time. The upcoming project management function of Copy will also help team managers easily control multiple projects and save time and cost.
4. Customer service: Customer team also provides remote customization support for the product design team. The needs of enterprise users are given priority to ensure the smooth operation of remote office.
In general, the Copyer online design collaboration platform can greatly help product design teams solve the efficiency problem of telecommuting. At the same time, I also believe that the product design team who have not used our product will love this product after using it.
The lesson is clear: productivity isn’t a problem with telecommuting, it’s just that you don’t have the right collaboration tools. So please share this article with your boss. At present, if you can stay at home for two more days, try not to bring chaos to the country.
During the epidemic, Mick is willing to provide maximum help to the product design team.
From now to March 5, product design teams can get the Mockplus team version and private deployment for free for 90 days on Mockplus official website, and purchase all versions of Mockplus prototype tool at a 60% discount. I believe that with our persistence and efforts, we can tide over the difficulties together.
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conclusion
In the past few years, telecommuting has spread to foreign industries such as health care, education, government and technology and engineering. Some well-known companies, such as E-commerce giant Amazon, technology giant Dell and IBM, have started telecommuting.
Therefore, telecommuting can not only effectively reduce the risk of epidemic transmission, but also conform to the good trend of The Times for Internet companies. The working mode of SOHO makes it easier for employees to plan their work according to their own conditions, saves the cost of commuting time for employees, and even reduces the cost of renting houses for employees and enterprises, which improves the huge possibility for enterprises to retain talents. So if you’re worried about telecommuting, hurry up!