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.

Use copy guest online design collaboration platform for communication, than the previous 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 Mick online design collaboration platform has realized all my requirements for efficient communication and collaboration:

1. Writing and managing product documents: At the beginning of the project, I usually used Mockplus to quickly build the project prototype according to my own requirements, and wrote product documents using the Online design collaboration platform of Copyer. I directly referenced the prototype diagram for accurate explanation, and shared the link with other team colleagues to complete the review online.

2. Organize the product logic: After the prototype drawing is made by Axure and Mockplus, I will upload it directly to the Online design collaboration platform of Mocker. In the full picture drawing board, the use of logical lines and logical line description can help designers and development engineers better understand the 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.

In a word, Keym online design collaboration platform not only helps our team improve the efficiency of communication and collaboration, makes full use of its convenient function for product managers, but also 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 professional delivery software like Copycat, telecommuting may seem like “business as usual,” with a few more people 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 preliminary 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 designers more easily to deliver the design draft, strongly recommended!

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 the online design collaboration platform have solved many difficulties I have encountered in the process of development. My biggest experience with online design collaboration is that working from home can be as productive or even more productive than working in a company.

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. The Copy 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!