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You Want to Be an UX Freelance? Ask Yourself Five Questions

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To be an UX freelance, many aspects are involved: self-discipline ability, working environment, business source, cooperative partner, pressure,  UX design skills  and other professional skill, etc. These problems also exist in most freelance work. How to solve these problems depends on yourself. Most of  UX designers  and developers must have considered being a freelancer. You may have tried it many times and failed many times; you may insist till now; you may be now on the right track as a freelancer with freedom. Faced with harsh social realities, we designers may yearn for a freelance work that is free of time, money, and travel. Countless designers are on the way to freelance work, and I used to be and may also be in the future. Freelance work can bring you many benefits a company can’t give. However, it is not as easy as you think. You may be faced with a lot of difficulties and hence you must deliberate it. Here are five questions for you to think about befo...

Why product managers and designers make prototype design in different ways?

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The difference Generally, we have a clear and reasonable division of labor at work according to the different forms of products. In most cases, a product manager is mainly responsible for user needs management, planning, function screening, business model, business model exploration, iteration time planning, agile development and function point description. As for web-end products, there won’t be many things about interaction. In addition, Product managers understand the functions very well. As a result, a product manager who is good at prototyping is definitely capable of making prototypes that facilitates the understanding of function points by the developers and also the time to communicate with the interaction designers. This helps a lot to improve the work efficiency. As for mobile products, interaction design matters more. Product managers will encounter difficulties when trying to make interaction effects in details because they need to make a plan about various functi...

Prototyping Design: Low Fidelity Prototype is Everything

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I have met some  product managers  in this industry recently. We exchanged our  design thinking process  from each other, what really shocked me is that they told me they often used the  high-fidelity prototype  to do the presentations. Here is the thing, they want to their presentation be impressed. But once the boss and client are not satisfied with their prototype, they have to do it all over again. I don’t know how much time do they need to do the revision, but it’s totally waste of time without testifying the plan to do the high-fidelity prototype in the early stage. On the contrary, many designers even me like to do the low-fidelity prototype, the following reasons are why: First at all, What is low fidelity prototype? The low-fidelity prototype focuses on function, structure, process, and provide the most simple framework and elements; In the early stages of product design, it can format plan quickly, discuss quickly and adjust quickly. Desig...