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iQIYI Technical Product Team
iQIYI Technical Product Team
Sep 15, 2017 · Product Management

What Core Skills Make a Great Product Manager? A Deep Dive

This article offers a systematic analysis of product manager core competencies—including product design, requirement documentation, accessibility, reliability, globalization, positioning, and user feedback—while sharing practical insights drawn from the author's ten‑year industry experience and a recent forced break for reflection.

Product ManagementProduct designReliability
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What Core Skills Make a Great Product Manager? A Deep Dive
Hujiang Design Center
Hujiang Design Center
Sep 14, 2017 · Product Management

How to Craft Effective Onboarding Experiences that Boost User Engagement

This guide explains why onboarding matters, outlines its three core functions—greeting, information delivery, and engagement—and provides practical design tips such as prioritizing content, using custom illustrations, concise copy, animation, clear pagination, and optional skip options to create a smooth first‑time user experience.

Product designUX designapp onboarding
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How to Craft Effective Onboarding Experiences that Boost User Engagement
网易UEDC
网易UEDC
Sep 13, 2017 · Product Management

How Storytelling Transforms User Experience Design

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.

Design thinkingProduct designUX Research
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How Storytelling Transforms User Experience Design
网易UEDC
网易UEDC
Aug 8, 2017 · Product Management

Designing a Cohesive Mobile Payment UI: NetEase Pay Case Study

This article examines how NetEase Pay’s product positioning shapes its design system, analyzes competing payment apps, outlines key visual keywords, and showcases iterative UI solutions—including icon unification and card‑based game branding—to create a cohesive, user‑friendly mobile payment experience.

Brand IntegrationProduct designUI design
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Designing a Cohesive Mobile Payment UI: NetEase Pay Case Study
Hujiang Design Center
Hujiang Design Center
Jul 26, 2017 · Product Management

Mastering Workflow Form Design: Proven Patterns and Common Pitfalls

This article shares practical experience and design patterns for workflow‑type forms, covering link handling strategies, page‑type recommendations, tips for entry pages, step sequencing, result handling, and admin back‑ends, while highlighting common pitfalls and solutions for B‑side user onboarding.

Product designUX designinteraction design
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Mastering Workflow Form Design: Proven Patterns and Common Pitfalls
网易UEDC
网易UEDC
Jul 12, 2017 · Fundamentals

How Task‑ and Goal‑Oriented Information Architecture Shapes Data Product Design

This article explains the concept of information architecture, compares task‑oriented and goal‑oriented approaches, and shows how they guide the design of complex data‑analysis tools by structuring content, functions, and user flows to match professional and business user needs.

Product designUX fundamentalsgoal-oriented design
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How Task‑ and Goal‑Oriented Information Architecture Shapes Data Product Design
网易UEDC
网易UEDC
Jul 11, 2017 · Product Management

How Structured Thinking Can Supercharge Your Design Projects

This article explains structured thinking, outlines top‑down and bottom‑up methods, and demonstrates their practical application in a data‑science platform redesign, showing how clear hierarchies improve problem analysis, user experience, and communication for designers and product teams.

Product designUXdesign process
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How Structured Thinking Can Supercharge Your Design Projects
网易UEDC
网易UEDC
Jul 4, 2017 · Product Management

Master the Double Diamond: A Practical Guide to Solving the Right Design Problems

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.

Design thinkingProduct designUser Research
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Master the Double Diamond: A Practical Guide to Solving the Right Design Problems
网易UEDC
网易UEDC
Jun 26, 2017 · Product Management

How the IKEA Effect Can Supercharge Your Product Design

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.

Design thinkingIKEA effectProduct design
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How the IKEA Effect Can Supercharge Your Product Design
网易UEDC
网易UEDC
Jun 14, 2017 · Product Management

Mastering User Guidance: Boost Adoption and Reduce Friction

The article explains what user guidance is, why it matters for both users and products, outlines its three essential elements, discusses trigger point selection, categorizes guide types and formats, and offers practical tips on strength, frequency, and best‑practice considerations to improve product adoption.

Product designUXfeature adoption
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Mastering User Guidance: Boost Adoption and Reduce Friction
JD.com Experience Design Center
JD.com Experience Design Center
Jun 9, 2017 · Product Management

How JD.com Revamped Its iPad Shopping Experience: The 4.0 Redesign Case Study

This article examines JD.com's strategic redesign of its iPad shopping app in 2017, detailing user research, business-driven design decisions, the shortcomings of the old product‑detail page, and how the new 4.0 version improved readability, scalability, and conversion rates on a large‑screen mobile device.

Case StudyE‑CommerceMobile App
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How JD.com Revamped Its iPad Shopping Experience: The 4.0 Redesign Case Study
Suning Technology
Suning Technology
May 23, 2017 · Product Management

How Microcopy Transforms Empty UI Scenes: A Design Playbook

This article explores how thoughtful microcopy—tiny UI text elements—can turn empty screens into engaging, personality‑rich experiences by aligning visual design, brand voice, and user emotions, offering practical guidelines and examples for product designers.

Product designUI designbranding
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How Microcopy Transforms Empty UI Scenes: A Design Playbook
网易UEDC
网易UEDC
May 17, 2017 · Product Management

Why Interaction Designers Should Blend Qualitative and Quantitative Research Like East Meets West

The article explains how interaction designers can improve their design solutions by combining qualitative methods such as interviews and usability testing with quantitative techniques like surveys and data analysis, illustrating the approach with real‑world product case studies and practical guidelines.

Product designUX strategyUser Research
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Why Interaction Designers Should Blend Qualitative and Quantitative Research Like East Meets West
网易UEDC
网易UEDC
May 3, 2017 · Product Management

How Controlling the User’s Sense of Control Boosts UX: Strategies and Insights

This article explores how preserving or cleverly simulating users' sense of control—through primary and secondary control, illusion of control, proper response, explanatory and substituted control, and avoiding learned helplessness—enhances user experience across digital products, illustrated with real‑world examples and design guidelines.

Product designUXbehavioral design
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How Controlling the User’s Sense of Control Boosts UX: Strategies and Insights
Suning Design
Suning Design
Apr 19, 2017 · Product Management

How to Win a One-Month Launch: A UI/UX Case Study of the Hi Travel Medal Cloud Diamond Project

This article details how a design team tackled a one‑month launch deadline for the “Hi Travel Medal Cloud Diamond” product, outlining project initiation, rapid parallel design, goal decomposition, interaction and visual design, usability testing, data‑driven adjustments, and post‑launch insights.

Case StudyProduct designProject Management
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How to Win a One-Month Launch: A UI/UX Case Study of the Hi Travel Medal Cloud Diamond Project
Hujiang Design Center
Hujiang Design Center
Mar 28, 2017 · Product Management

How to Give Your Product a Soul: Design Principles for Emotional Connection

This article explains why merely meeting product metrics isn’t enough, advocates adding emotional connection and “soul” to designs through purposeful principles, fun elements, the KANO model, and persuasive communication with stakeholders, offering concrete examples and actionable guidelines for product designers and managers.

Product ManagementProduct designdesign principles
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How to Give Your Product a Soul: Design Principles for Emotional Connection
Hujiang Design Center
Hujiang Design Center
Dec 5, 2016 · Product Management

Turn Design Inspiration into Innovation Without Copying

This article explains how designers can use competitor research to spark ideas while avoiding the pitfalls of blind imitation, offering practical strategies for guiding clients toward original solutions, interpreting feedback, and integrating personal inspiration into the design process.

Product designUXclient collaboration
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Turn Design Inspiration into Innovation Without Copying
Hujiang Design Center
Hujiang Design Center
Dec 5, 2016 · Product Management

10 Insightful Questions to Reveal What Clients Really Want

This article presents ten carefully crafted questions that help product teams uncover the true motivations behind a client’s request to reference or emulate another product, guiding deeper understanding of user needs, design relevance, and strategic fit.

Product ManagementProduct designUX discovery
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10 Insightful Questions to Reveal What Clients Really Want
Hujiang Design Center
Hujiang Design Center
Nov 10, 2016 · Product Management

Master the Revised Double Diamond Model: A Practical Design Thinking Guide

This article introduces a refined Double Diamond framework that helps designers, innovators, and project managers systematically explore, define, develop, and deliver solutions, offering step‑by‑step guidance, practical tips, and visual illustrations to apply design thinking, HCD, and UX processes from the ground up.

HCDProduct designUX
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Master the Revised Double Diamond Model: A Practical Design Thinking Guide
JD.com Experience Design Center
JD.com Experience Design Center
Nov 7, 2016 · Product Management

Designing Products That Stick: How Memory Shapes User Experience

This article explains how the peak‑end rule and the distinction between the experiencing self and remembering self influence product design, offering practical strategies to create memorable endings, emotional peak moments, and scalable experiences that keep users engaged and willing to share.

Memory DesignProduct designemotional design
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Designing Products That Stick: How Memory Shapes User Experience
Suning Design
Suning Design
Oct 14, 2016 · Product Management

What UX Trends Will Redefine Digital Experiences in 2017?

The article explores emerging UX trends for 2017—including fault diagrams, micro‑micro interactions, weather‑app explosions, electronic‑pet aesthetics, haptic feedback, de‑linearized flows, gap‑anxiety mitigation, age‑responsive design, trust building, AI assistant integration, and textile‑inspired interfaces—highlighting how designers can shape more human‑centric digital products.

Product designUXdesign trends
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What UX Trends Will Redefine Digital Experiences in 2017?
58UXD
58UXD
Jun 1, 2016 · Product Management

How the GSM Model Turns Design Intuition into Measurable Results

This article introduces the GSM (Goal‑Signal‑Metric) model as a practical framework for interaction designers to quantify design outcomes, illustrating its application through a website homepage case study, and showing how data‑driven analysis can guide design decisions, improve usability, and align business and user goals.

GSM modelProduct designdata‑driven design
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How the GSM Model Turns Design Intuition into Measurable Results
Huawei Cloud Developer Alliance
Huawei Cloud Developer Alliance
May 22, 2016 · Fundamentals

Why User Experience Matters: Key Factors That Shape How Users Feel

This article explores the broad concept of user experience, explaining how the system, user, and environment interact, and examines how usage context, habits, and website design elements such as usability, usefulness, findability, accessibility, desirability, credibility, and value collectively determine whether a product feels satisfying and effective.

Product designUX designUsability
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Why User Experience Matters: Key Factors That Shape How Users Feel
58UXD
58UXD
Apr 20, 2016 · Product Management

Why Some Ad Platforms Hide Scheduling Options: Lessons for Product Design

The article compares how Chinese self‑service ad platforms expose scheduling features versus how Google and Baidu hide them, illustrating broader differences between commercial and user‑focused product design and the impact on user decision time and sales efficiency.

Product ManagementProduct designad platforms
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Why Some Ad Platforms Hide Scheduling Options: Lessons for Product Design
Baidu Intelligent Testing
Baidu Intelligent Testing
Apr 7, 2016 · Product Management

Usability Testing: Definition, Process, and Best Practices

This article explains what usability testing is, outlines its purpose, describes the typical workflow—including preparation, task design, pilot testing, user recruitment, execution, data analysis, and reporting—and highlights the benefits of applying rapid usability testing in product development.

Product designTesting MethodologyUX
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Usability Testing: Definition, Process, and Best Practices
58UXD
58UXD
Apr 5, 2016 · Product Management

How Empathy Shapes Photo‑Editing Features for China’s Gen‑Z Users

This article explores how user empathy and face‑detection technology guided the design of photo‑editing and sticker features in the “LaoXiangShuo” module of the Ganji app, targeting post‑90s users with tailored visual and textual enhancements.

Gen ZPhoto EditingProduct design
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How Empathy Shapes Photo‑Editing Features for China’s Gen‑Z Users
Meiyou UED
Meiyou UED
Mar 16, 2016 · Product Management

Boost User Habits: How Reinforcement Theory Shapes Behavior and Apps

This article explains B.F. Skinner's reinforcement theory, shows how rewarding pleasant outcomes shapes human behavior in classrooms and relationships, and demonstrates its practical use in app design through features like check‑ins and lotteries to boost user engagement.

Product designbehavior changereinforcement
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Boost User Habits: How Reinforcement Theory Shapes Behavior and Apps
58UXD
58UXD
Jan 27, 2016 · Fundamentals

Design Insights from Baidu’s Veteran: Building Effective Design Standards

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.

Design thinkingProduct designdesign standards
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Design Insights from Baidu’s Veteran: Building Effective Design Standards
58UXD
58UXD
Jan 21, 2016 · Fundamentals

Boosting UX with Anticipatory Interaction Design: Real‑World Examples

This article explores anticipatory interaction design, showing how platforms like Taobao, WeChat, browsers, and iOS predict user intentions to streamline sharing and navigation, and discusses two main strategies—aligning with user behavior and adapting to context—to create more efficient, respectful user experiences.

Human-Computer InteractionProduct designUX
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Boosting UX with Anticipatory Interaction Design: Real‑World Examples
21CTO
21CTO
Oct 29, 2015 · Product Management

What Are Facebook’s 4 Core Principles for Building Powerful B2B Tools?

This article shares Facebook’s four design principles for B2B products—helping users grow, balancing efficiency with effectiveness, turning complexity into simplicity, and delivering precise predictions—illustrated with real‑world examples, A/B test results, and the evolution of their advertising platform.

B2BBusiness toolsFacebook
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What Are Facebook’s 4 Core Principles for Building Powerful B2B Tools?
Suning Design
Suning Design
Oct 13, 2015 · Product Management

What Do UX, UI, Visual, Interaction, and Product Designers Actually Do?

This article demystifies the many design titles—UX, UI, visual, interaction, product, and user‑research designers—explaining their core responsibilities, typical deliverables, essential tools, and how they differ across industries, helping readers navigate the confusing landscape of modern design roles.

Product designUI designUX design
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What Do UX, UI, Visual, Interaction, and Product Designers Actually Do?
Suning Design
Suning Design
Oct 12, 2015 · Product Management

How to Present Your Projects Effectively in Campus and Corporate Job Interviews

This guide explains the key differences between campus and corporate project showcases, offers practical tips for structuring resumes and portfolios, highlights common pitfalls, and provides interview strategies to help product and interaction designers present their work convincingly.

Career AdviceProduct designUX design
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How to Present Your Projects Effectively in Campus and Corporate Job Interviews
21CTO
21CTO
Sep 26, 2015 · Product Management

What Makes a Great Leader? Lessons from Facebook’s Julie Zhuo

Julie Zhuo, Facebook’s product design director, explains how great leaders use Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle to inspire teams, contrasts ordinary and excellent managers across five real‑world scenarios, and shares ten practical management rules for building effective, purpose‑driven organizations.

Golden CircleProduct designmanagement
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What Makes a Great Leader? Lessons from Facebook’s Julie Zhuo
JD.com Experience Design Center
JD.com Experience Design Center
Sep 11, 2015 · Fundamentals

Why Behavior‑Centered Design Beats User‑Centric Approaches

The article explains how designing products around user behavior—considering hardware dimensions, emotional factors, habits, and subconscious cues—creates more intuitive, adaptable solutions than purely user‑centric methods, and outlines practical principles for applying behavior‑centered design in everyday objects.

Product designbehavior-centered designdesign principles
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Why Behavior‑Centered Design Beats User‑Centric Approaches
Suning Design
Suning Design
Jan 16, 2015 · Product Management

Using Data to Supercharge Design: Discover Problems, Validate Solutions

This article explains how designers can leverage user data throughout the design lifecycle—identifying problems before design, guiding decision‑making during development, and validating outcomes after launch—while also outlining practical daily monitoring techniques.

Product designUser Researchdata‑driven design
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Using Data to Supercharge Design: Discover Problems, Validate Solutions
Meituan Technology Team
Meituan Technology Team
Jan 8, 2015 · Product Management

How Meituan Built a P2P Internal Library That Grew 720% in One Week

Meituan’s internal library transformed from a small departmental shelf into a distributed, P2P‑driven book‑sharing platform that grew 720% in a week, thanks to streamlined procurement, one‑click sharing, and a self‑organizing borrowing workflow, dramatically reducing management overhead and expanding cross‑department access.

Case StudyInternal toolsP2P
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How Meituan Built a P2P Internal Library That Grew 720% in One Week
Suning Design
Suning Design
Nov 26, 2014 · Product Management

How Prototyping Elevates Product Design: From Sketches to High‑Fidelity Specs

This article walks you through the full spectrum of product design documentation—from early sketches and wireframes to low‑ and high‑fidelity prototypes and detailed design specifications—explaining their purposes, workflows, and the benefits they bring to teams and development cycles.

Product designUXdesign specifications
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How Prototyping Elevates Product Design: From Sketches to High‑Fidelity Specs
JD.com Experience Design Center
JD.com Experience Design Center
Nov 19, 2014 · Product Management

Designing JD Smart Cloud’s Unified App: UI/UX Choices and Project Lessons

This case study outlines JD Smart Cloud’s unified app project, covering its background, early interaction and visual mockups, design adjustments driven by stakeholder feedback, the final UI layout, and key takeaways on communication, prioritization, and iterative design in tight‑deadline product development.

App DevelopmentCase StudyProduct design
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Designing JD Smart Cloud’s Unified App: UI/UX Choices and Project Lessons
Suning Design
Suning Design
Oct 8, 2014 · Fundamentals

Mastering Product Information Architecture: Light vs. Heavy Structures

This article explores how product information architecture varies between simple, consumer‑focused (light) designs and complex, enterprise (heavy) systems, offering practical strategies, real‑world examples, and a balanced approach to structuring content for optimal user experience.

Product designUXdesign methodology
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Mastering Product Information Architecture: Light vs. Heavy Structures
Suning Design
Suning Design
Jul 25, 2014 · Product Management

Why Asking Users What They Want Fails: 3 Proven Interview Questions

This article explains why directly asking users what they want leads to misleading insights and introduces three effective interview questions that uncover real problems, current solutions, and improvement opportunities, helping product teams design truly valuable features.

Product designUXUser Research
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Why Asking Users What They Want Fails: 3 Proven Interview Questions
Suning Design
Suning Design
May 9, 2014 · Fundamentals

Why 2014 Became the Year of Dynamic Prototyping and Interaction Design

The 2014 design landscape saw static PSDs give way to dynamic, interactive prototypes, with tools like Flinto, Framer.js, Marvel and Xcode Storyboard reshaping how designers create, collaborate, and present products, marking a pivotal shift toward holistic, user‑focused design.

Product designdesign trendsinteraction design
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Why 2014 Became the Year of Dynamic Prototyping and Interaction Design
Suning Design
Suning Design
May 8, 2014 · Product Management

Mastering Efficient Design: A 3‑Step Framework for Product Success

This article outlines a practical three‑step approach—defining clear design goals, employing multidimensional thinking, and presenting evidence‑based solutions—to help designers create actionable, implementable product designs that align with user, business, and self‑initiated needs.

Product designUX methodologydesign process
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Mastering Efficient Design: A 3‑Step Framework for Product Success
Suning Design
Suning Design
Apr 21, 2014 · Frontend Development

60 Subtle UI Design Details That Reveal Thoughtful Product Craftsmanship

This article showcases sixty nuanced UI and interaction details across popular apps and platforms—ranging from iOS lock‑screen icon scaling to dynamic favicons—illustrating how small design choices enhance user experience and convey brand personality.

FrontendProduct designUI design
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60 Subtle UI Design Details That Reveal Thoughtful Product Craftsmanship
Suning Design
Suning Design
Apr 17, 2014 · Product Management

Quantitative UX Secrets for Seamless Multi‑Screen Experiences

LeTV’s chief designer shares how quantifying user experience, embracing large‑sample data, and designing for cross‑device consistency can turn video streaming into measurable value, while emphasizing subtle, natural interactions that keep users engaged across PC, mobile, and TV platforms.

LeTVProduct designdesign principles
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Quantitative UX Secrets for Seamless Multi‑Screen Experiences
Suning Design
Suning Design
Apr 10, 2014 · Product Management

Avoid Common Pitfalls in User Research: From Personas to Psychological Insight

This article examines frequent mistakes in user research—over‑reliance on quick persona creation, focusing on quantitative behavior instead of underlying psychology, and confusing individual traits with shared patterns—offering practical questions and methods to keep investigations truly user‑centered.

Product designUXUser Research
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Avoid Common Pitfalls in User Research: From Personas to Psychological Insight
Suning Design
Suning Design
Apr 2, 2014 · Product Management

Boost Team Creativity: How Brainwriting Beats Traditional Brainstorming

Brainwriting, a written brainstorming technique, lets participants generate many ideas simultaneously, reduces anxiety, and often yields more concepts than face‑to‑face sessions, making it a powerful alternative for product teams and large groups.

Idea generationProduct designbrainwriting
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Boost Team Creativity: How Brainwriting Beats Traditional Brainstorming
Suning Design
Suning Design
Mar 21, 2014 · Product Management

How Storytelling Can Transform User Experience Design

This article explains why integrating storytelling into UX design improves user empathy, fuels creativity, guides research, and helps teams communicate ideas effectively, illustrated with real‑world examples from educational platforms and product scenarios.

Product designUX designcommunication
0 likes · 18 min read
How Storytelling Can Transform User Experience Design