In the Internet age, web pages and mobile apps have penetrated into every aspect of people’s life. This also makes App interface design more and more popular among young job seekers, and they are throwing themselves into the industry. However, as a UI design beginner, how to quickly start? In today’s market, is there an efficient and practical design tool to help them get started quickly, improve their work efficiency at the same time, quickly improve professional skills and job competitiveness?

Of course the answer is yes! To meet the needs of UI designers in this respect, we have launched a new online product design collaboration artifact — Copycat. An efficient online collaborative design tool that helps beginners to easily implement intelligent annotation, one-click graph cutting, multiple annotations, vivid display of interface flow and interaction, and permission management for team projects.

Here we will follow the footsteps of xiaobian to learn and understand: How to help UI design beginners step by step to overcome various design pain points, improve the efficiency of collaboration:

Copycat collaborative Design – Solve UI design collaborative pain points in just 6 steps

As a subsidiary of Mockplus, it is another online collaborative design tool after Mockplus prototyping tool and Mockplus Design Specification tool. Copying collaborative design, while continuing its faster, simpler design concept, more UI designers, especially for UI design beginners, in the design process of the real needs and pain points. Efficient collaborative design can be achieved quickly and easily in just 6 steps:

Step 1: Import design with one click and refuse to repeat trivial and inefficient work

Whether it is a beginner design, or experienced UI design masters, in the collaborative design process, often involves QQ screenshots, packaging and uploading, email docking, view, modify, packaging and uploading. Iteration after iteration, repetition after repetition, inefficient and trivial.

In order to solve the pain points of designers in this aspect, Copy support design drawing import, simple and fast, can very effectively liberate them from trivial and repetitive inefficient work. Let beginners have more time and energy to learn and practice professional knowledge, improve industry skills.



As shown in the figure, after the design drawing is imported by one key, Copycat also supports the management of each page in the way of directory tree, and divides page levels and groups. The structure is clear, avoiding unnecessary trouble and inefficient work.

Step 2: Intelligent labeling and map cutting to avoid repeated manual labeling, labeling errors, labeling omissions and other situations

Manual drawing and cutting is another unspeakable pain in the UI designer’s collaborative design process. For each design iteration, it takes a lot of time to manually annotate and cut diagrams. One is not careful, there will be a mark error or mark leakage situation, greatly affecting product development progress.

In this respect, copycat collaborative tools support design drawings to automatically identify and mark the style of various design elements, such as spacing, size, color value and so on, which is convenient and fast, and can greatly improve work efficiency, half the work and twice the work. It is also extremely effective in helping designers to avoid repetitive work, with functions such as automatic cutting, multi-selection and viewing of various cutting images.

In addition, its intimate magnifying glass function, percentage annotation and multi-selection cut chart download function, etc., in communication with the development department, the role is also great. As shown in figure:



Step 3: Sketchboard overview, more intuitive display of the design process

Intuitive and easy to understand product page process, can very effectively help designers more clearly understand the logical relationship between product interfaces, so as to add more in line with user scenarios of various interface design.

In this respect, Copy for the designer door added a special drawing board module, support page process overview. One click drag, you can edit and display the page flow, clear and intuitive. As shown in figure:



Step 4: Various annotations, easy to see historical version — quickly practice the design concept, improve the efficiency of collaboration

For beginners of UI design, daily learning should not only be limited to mastering the theoretical knowledge on “books”, but should pay more attention to the practice and application of knowledge in real design cases.

However, Mick not only provides a variety of annotation functions for beginners in design (such as thumbtack, prototype, rectangle, straight line, arrow and so on), but also helps them to practice and apply various design theories as soon as possible and implement their design ideas easily. It also supports easy editing and viewing of historical versions, providing convenience for beginners to timely obtain feedback from other design leaders in the team and learn practical design skills and experience. As shown in figure:



Step 5:9 kinds of interactive animations to show the design process more vividly and intuitively

At present, many companies in China do not make a clear distinction between UI design and interaction design. The end result of this reality is that many UI designers need to participate in the interaction design of the software interface as well as the product interface design. This also requires beginners of UI design to master some knowledge of interaction design.

In order to solve the designers’ troubles in this aspect, Mick added a simple and easy to operate interaction design module. Designers can simply drag and drop to add interaction to various text, buttons, and interface components. 9 kinds of interactive animations to help designers show the design process more vividly and intuitively.



Step 6: Easily manage team project permissions

App collaborative design will inevitably involve the management of team members and project permissions.

Copycats provide designers with four roles (such as team owner, manager, member, and viewer). Different roles have different design permissions, so that designers can divide roles according to specific design requirements. Easily manage team members and project permissions. What’s more, even for beginners, the learning curve is extremely low and the learning curve is extremely fast.

In short, no matter UI design beginners, or industry design masters, Copy will be a very efficient and practical design collaboration software.

Copycat – Easy to achieve efficient collaboration and communication between UI designers, product managers and developers

The work of a UI designer is not completely independent. Especially for beginners, it should be recognized from the beginning. Communication with product managers on product requirements in the early stage, and communication with product development engineers on specific interface design and implementation in the later stage are all important links to design a truly novel, eye-catching, interesting and practical software application. Therefore, novice UI designers also need to pay more attention to communication with product managers and development departments during the collaborative design process.

As an intimate and practical online collaborative design tool, Mick also provides very rich functions in this respect:

For example, magnifying glass view notes, percentage notes, multiple selection notes. Automatic access to cut maps, multi – selection and downloadable cut maps. One-click query interface repeating elements, style code automatically exported and other functions, very easy to UI designers and development department communication and handover.



For example, support for uploading and viewing previews of multiple requirements specification documents (including Axure, Justinmind, Mockplus prototype demos, Office document previews, image file previews, PDF and text files); Support page completion status, work task evaluation mark (provide up to 20 kinds of mark icon selection); Various annotation functions, etc., are also very practical for realizing efficient communication between designers and product managers.

In short, Copy is a comprehensive and efficient online collaborative design tool. It can not only meet the various collaborative design needs of UI designers, but also very friendly to product managers and development engineers.

Conclusion:

Copy is a UI design can easily help beginners to practice a variety of design theory, timely communication and access to design feedback, quick start, improve design professional skills design collaboration artifact. Even for experienced UI designers, Mocker offers a unique and productive experience — as with other mocker design tools such as Mockplus Prototype Designer and Mocker Design System. It’s also a great collaborative design platform for product managers and development engineers to try.