The article examines designer Wini Camacho’s Topolino XS concept—a modular micro‑car that can transform among three distinct body styles, showcasing how compact, adaptable design can turn urban transportation constraints into functional, expressive advantages.
The article explains how product managers, especially in B2B finance, should adopt a user‑thinking mindset that aligns user needs with product goals, using concrete methods for requirement discovery, scenario‑driven design, proactive compliance guidance, and iterative validation to deliver efficient, accurate, and controllable solutions.
The article analyzes how accelerating AI adoption reshapes organizations, presenting five interrelated trends—from AI‑robot integration to AI‑native structures—and offers concrete actions, data points, and leader quotes that explain why successful firms must redesign processes, prioritize business problems, and move quickly before the innovation window closes.
The article explains product thinking as a mindset that starts from user value, illustrates it with real‑world observations and the iPhone home‑button story, and offers practical ways to develop the skill through critical product use, user conversations, interdisciplinary reading, and continuous practice.
The article compiles popular Zhihu answers explaining that only a small fraction of engineers need to act as architects, that architecture requires a broader perspective than coding, and that team size, experience, and mindset determine whether a developer can effectively take on architectural responsibilities.
The recap details Lin Ziwei’s September 2025 talk on service design’s evolution, key milestones, core tools like personas and user maps, applications in public services, and the discipline’s future interdisciplinary direction, highlighting how designers can shift from one‑way supply to collaborative co‑creation.
This article walks through the complete process of transforming a basic black button into a premium‑looking, animated VIP component using CSS gradients, keyframe animations, hover interactions, performance optimizations, and configurable variables, while also explaining the design thinking behind such “out‑of‑the‑box” requests.
This article dissects popular product management frameworks—from user stories and Maslow's hierarchy to AARRR, growth hacking, and data models—explaining their definitions, practical applications, and common pitfalls, helping practitioners separate genuine value from misleading hype.
This article explores how creativity works in designers' brains, outlines the 4C model, compares protocol analysis with neural‑mechanism studies, and presents practical tools and daily habits that can stimulate and sustain innovative thinking in design work.
The Double Diamond model offers a structured, four‑step design workflow—discover, define, develop, and deliver—that helps teams identify the right problems, generate diverse solutions, and refine them into effective designs, improving both internal efficiency and external stakeholder alignment.
This article explores the internal design logic and systematic framework that drive product development, using the 58 Yellow Pages redesign as a case study to illustrate how AI, user research, iterative testing, and strategic thinking guide each stage from problem discovery to final implementation.
This article explores how designers can maintain and expand their value in the age of AI by adopting industrial design thinking, deep industry insight, strategic foresight, and a holistic, system‑level approach to create sustainable, user‑centric solutions for complex service ecosystems.
Designers must master data thinking to identify problems, set measurable goals, and craft evidence‑based solutions; this guide explains a layered analysis framework, key metrics like AARRR and OSM, and practical thinking methods—goal, metric, comparison, and structure—to boost design impact and business outcomes.
This article explores how applying procedural and object‑oriented mindsets—borrowed from programming—to design work can help balance high‑quality output with fast delivery, using real‑world examples and practical tools to illustrate a flexible, hybrid approach.
This article examines how designers can shift from passive requirement fulfillment to proactive value creation by redesigning 58.com’s homepage “gold bar” area, detailing problem identification, strategy formulation, information architecture restructuring, interaction improvements, and outcome validation to enhance user experience and drive business growth.
This article examines how designers can gain strategic influence by deeply understanding user needs, analyzing product manager assumptions, and applying a structured, role‑based approach to improve interview experiences for domestic‑worker hiring platforms.
This article explains how designers progress from outward comparison to inward synthesis, uses the atomic‑model analogy for ability leaps, defines structured thinking, breaks it into deconstruction, reconstruction and integration stages, and shows how it can resolve workflow, efficiency, perspective, and communication challenges in design practice.
This article explores the concept of insight in team facilitation, defining it, examining neuroscientific research on aha moments, outlining four key traits that foster insight, and presenting four practical pathways for cultivating individual and collective insights within collaborative processes.
This article details how 58 Home Service created a service‑design team to analyze user pain points, apply five design principles, redesign caregiver equipment and service flows, and continuously improve brand experience, illustrating a product‑management approach to elevating both customer trust and caregiver satisfaction.
This guide explains how to combine user research with co‑creation workshops, defines the concept, outlines five workshop types, and details a practical six‑step method—including preparation, structure, materials, facilitation, and post‑workshop delivery—to turn insights into actionable outcomes.
This article examines how thoughtfully crafted main visuals influence user engagement and sales in e‑commerce campaigns, presenting four case studies from the “Super Welfare Day” series that illustrate design background, strategy, visual style, implementation, and measurable results such as an 85.2% GMV lift.
This article outlines Enterprise Design Thinking as a human‑centered framework that emphasizes continuous dialogue between problems and solutions, user outcomes, diverse empowered teams, and structured practices such as Hills and Playbacks to align product development with real user needs.
This case study explains how New Ganji re‑positioned its recruitment platform around authenticity, redesigning visual elements, optimizing user flows, adding gamified growth features, and applying design‑thinking principles to achieve a five‑fold DAU increase without heavy operations investment.
This article explains how B‑end (enterprise) designers can define their role, adopt a holistic design process, and leverage thinking, problem‑solving, UI systems, and project retrospectives to create measurable value for complex business products.
This reflective case study examines how a new internal testing tool’s promotional email evolved from a playful, cocktail‑themed concept to a concise, developer‑focused design, highlighting the importance of aligning creativity with user expectations, product tone, and effective communication.
Learn how to build effective user descriptions and personas, understand their definitions, value, and a practical five‑step process—from data collection to sharing—so product teams can design user‑centered solutions, prioritize features, and make informed decisions.
This article explores five practical stories—from contemporary art, theater, architecture, literature, and film—that reveal how designers can habitually collect raw material, connect insights with "if‑then" thinking, choose the right expressive language, maintain disciplined output, and test concepts with a concise high‑concept pitch.
This article explains how applying a systematic "super organization" method—capturing information, filtering viewpoints, and defining clear tasks—helps B2B designers uncover the true nature of problems, streamline communication, and create effective, user‑focused solutions.
This article outlines four practical dimensions—goal orientation, refinement, consistency, and innovation—that designers can self‑assess to increase the likelihood of their work being approved, offering concrete methods and visual examples for each.
This article explores why integrating service design thinking into product design is essential, shares concrete case studies from a moving‑service platform, and outlines practical steps such as focusing on optimization points, getting closer to users, and building a dedicated service design team.
This article shares practical methods and personal insights for designers shifting from consumer‑focused (C‑end) to enterprise (B‑end) product design, covering role redefinition, business knowledge acquisition, scenario analysis, execution tactics, and continuous reflection to deliver clear, value‑driven solutions.
This article reviews how the 58 used‑car team applied design‑thinking methodology to plan, design, and launch a large‑scale Chinese New Year operation, detailing requirement analysis, visual‑design workflow, cross‑team collaboration, and key lessons for future product initiatives.
This article examines the concepts of design thinking, lean, agile, and DevOps, explains their shared focus on delivering customer value, and proposes a combined, value‑oriented workflow that integrates these methodologies through value definition, value‑stream mapping, quadrant analysis, and automation within an end‑to‑end platform.
This article examines the concepts of design thinking, lean, agile, and DevOps, explains their shared user‑centric goals, and proposes a combined, value‑driven framework that maps, analyzes, and automates the end‑to‑end delivery process through integrated platforms and tooling.
This article explores how abandoning preconceived design habits and focusing on real user scenarios can dramatically improve user experience, illustrated with everyday examples, practical guidelines, and a step‑by‑step approach to scenario‑driven design for product teams.
The article explores how abstract thinking and complexity influence a product manager's abilities, explains the purpose and timing of creating product architecture diagrams, and provides detailed guidance on different diagram types, their design methods, and practical steps for visualizing product, service, and ecosystem structures.
This article explores how product managers can use abstract thinking to create clear, high‑level product architecture diagrams that clarify direction, support technical and operational planning, and communicate complex ecosystems and business models in a simple visual form.
This article outlines how a structured Innovation Training Camp empowers designers to break business silos, generate patents and new service concepts, and systematically turn creative ideas into implementable solutions that enhance product experience and drive continuous improvement.
Convergent design describes how unrelated products often evolve similar forms—like smartphones, car steering wheels, and everyday tools—because successful solutions are repeatedly copied; the article explores its biological roots, reasons behind market homogeneity, and offers designers strategies to stay innovative.
This talk guides product managers and designers on breaking down complex goals—like achieving a million‑yuan sales target in three months—through structured problem‑decomposition methods such as MECE and SMART, while outlining a personal development framework that cultivates analytical, communication, and leadership skills across career stages.
This article explores what makes an interactive project feel warm, why accessibility matters for inclusive experiences, and provides practical steps—including design thinking, universal design principles, WCAG/WAI‑ARIA guidelines, and front‑end coding techniques—to create interactive web projects that are both engaging and accessible to all users.
This article explores what makes an interactive web project feel warm, why accessibility is essential for inclusive experiences, and provides concrete strategies—including WCAG principles, WAI‑ARIA usage, semantic HTML, CSS best practices, JavaScript techniques, and testing tools—to design and develop interactive projects that are both engaging and accessible to all users.
This article explains the Golden Circle principle, shows how starting with "Why" rather than "What" can reshape product design thinking, and offers practical questions and examples for UX designers to uncover core user needs and create more effective solutions.
This article explains design thinking as a customer‑centric, double‑diamond process that guides product teams through discovery, definition, development, and delivery, illustrating how tools such as personas, empathy maps, journey maps, story maps, and prototypes enable sustainable, desirable, feasible, and viable solutions within agile environments.
This article explains why user participation matters in B2B products, outlines how to involve users throughout the development cycle, improve designers' and team members' sense of ownership, and offers practical steps to create a more collaborative and effective product ecosystem.
This case study details how a team of UX designers and researchers analyzed office waste‑sorting challenges, identified employee, cleaning staff, and company stakeholder needs, and created a simple, gamified recycling bin that boosted participation, reduced labor, and inspired a company‑wide rollout.
This article explains how user‑centered design thinking, from market and user analysis through concept testing, usability testing, and post‑launch feedback, guides product teams to uncover pain points, prioritize features, and continuously improve the user experience.
This article outlines seven essential habits—reading others' code, spotting doomed projects, minimizing meetings, mastering GitHub, writing concise maintainable code, learning to say no, and adopting operation‑oriented design thinking—that help software engineers bridge the gap between interview preparation and real‑world productivity.
In this talk, senior Baidu design manager Gao Jian shares practical strategies for designers to develop product thinking, understand business layers, set ambitious goals, and transition into product roles, emphasizing the importance of dreaming, thinking, and executing to achieve long‑term career growth.
This article dissects the 2019 Spring Festival (春运) campaign by 58.com, revealing how a win‑win design mindset, data‑driven insights, and integrated business collaboration transformed user experience, increased traffic, and delivered measurable results across multiple channels and game‑based interactions.
This article guides designers on avoiding wasted effort by ensuring their designs directly support business goals, explaining how to identify key product functions, integrate cross‑team insights, and adopt continuous learning to keep designs relevant and impactful.
The article shares a designer’s journey from UI creation to product ownership, emphasizing the need to observe real users, collaborate across teams, gather industry insights, and turn user pain points into valuable product features for SaaS customer‑service platforms.
This article explores how the natural growth of leaves and the fractal patterns of the Mandelbrot set illustrate simple yet powerful principles that can guide product development, emphasizing first‑principles thinking, iterative design, and the balance between simplicity and complexity for better team cohesion and user experience.
This article introduces the author’s self‑developed Causal Association Method—originating from the Issue Map framework—to systematically describe, analyze, and conclude problems, then generate diverse solution ideas illustrated through real design scenarios and practical applications.
Visual designers must go beyond aesthetics by embracing product thinking and design thinking; this article breaks down the three layers—product thinking, visual strategy, and visual execution—showing how they interconnect like a ship’s navigation system to guide designers toward user‑centered, impactful outcomes.
This article outlines a systematic creative workflow—from gathering and clarifying project requirements, through focused brainstorming and idea categorization, to evaluating user demands and finalizing a data‑driven implementation plan—illustrated with a real 2018 Chinese New Year housing‑rental campaign.
This article examines why a Japanese sushi‑style food‑play kit confuses adults but works for children, exploring universal design language, two generic design processes, and practical steps to create an intuitive, culture‑independent user experience.
This article explains how designers can move from emotional intuition to scientific, data‑driven design by examining Hotmail and Facebook growth hacks and presenting a five‑step, data‑focused design workflow applied to the NetEase "You Money" product.
This article examines common misconceptions about design thinking, explains its true interdisciplinary nature, and shows how integrating design thinking with product, business, and technology teams can drive innovation, improve user experience, and create measurable business outcomes.
This article explains how applying story thinking to the entire design process—from user research and persona creation to prototyping and validation—enhances empathy, clarifies problems, and drives more compelling, user‑centered solutions.
This article introduces the Double Diamond design model, explains its four phases—discover, define, develop, and deliver—and demonstrates how applying the framework to a real product case can help teams identify the correct problems and craft effective solutions, boosting user growth and retention.
This article explains the IKEA effect—a cognitive bias where users value products they help create—and outlines how designers can craft low‑effort, high‑reward tasks, align user skills and contexts, and integrate these principles into product experiences to boost engagement and loyalty.
This article explains intuitive design—a method that meets users' hidden psychological expectations by observing natural behavior, illustrates its origins with Jane Fulton Suri’s research, and showcases real‑world cases from Mac, Pages, a shopping app, and Mobike, before outlining a step‑by‑step application process.
This article compiles a selection of previously published pieces that outline the essential soft skills, mindset, and practical advice for software architects, covering topics such as programming excellence, abstract thinking, communication, decision‑making, team management, and continuous learning to guide engineers aspiring to architectural roles.
The 2016 Suning User Experience Conference in Nanjing gathered industry leaders to discuss design thinking, rational design models, full‑link service design, research methods combining implicit and explicit signals, and the three‑body practice of humanity, relationships, and monetization, highlighting how seamless experiences boost brand loyalty.
This article introduces six distinguished design experts—covering e‑commerce search, full‑chain service innovation, omnichannel sales, user‑experience mastery, seamless experience design, and overcoming UX bottlenecks—detailing their backgrounds, affiliations, and the key topics they will present at the main conference.
Design thinking is a human‑centered, iterative process—empathy, define, ideate, prototype, test—used by Adobe’s product team to create innovative, feasible, and valuable experiences like Adobe XD, emphasizing rapid learning, cross‑functional collaboration, and continuous user feedback.
This article outlines Stanford's Design Thinking methodology, describing its entrepreneurial pathways, defining design, highlighting key mindsets and six guiding principles, and providing practical exercises and tools while discussing its relationship with lean startup, agile development, and operational implementation.
In this UXD sharing session, veteran designer Yu Yang from Baidu discusses his design philosophy, the importance of aligning personal temperament with project needs, establishing robust design standards, fostering user‑centric thinking, and answers over a dozen practical questions from the audience.
Front‑end engineers must blend logical planning, business‑savvy estimation, and design thinking by collaborating with back‑end developers, designers, and product managers to write reusable, maintainable code, anticipate changes, propose user‑focused solutions, and translate static mock‑ups into responsive interfaces that meet both technical and client expectations.
The article argues that true user experience design should focus on solving users' core problems and achieving their goals, rather than merely improving visual appeal, and illustrates this principle with examples like Amazon, Evernote, and iPhone, urging companies to embed UX thinking from the earliest product stages.
