How to improve hotel mapping efficiency

Some ways to improve hotel mapping efficiency:

From complex to simple

A good organizing habit can improve design efficiency. Organizing meeting minutes, organizing target requirements, organizing design materials, etc. I will focus on sorting out target requirements.

We have come across many methods for sorting requirements, such as Card sorting and User Journey Mapping, which are two of the more commonly used methods. What I’m talking about is not that, but how to organize your priorities and improve efficiency. Once you know what is important and urgent, you can easily decide what to deal with first.

Requirements sorting

Why to How

I found that many designers start to work on sketches and structure diagrams after getting the requirements documents from product managers or leaders. status, and some directly upload the renderings. This seems very efficient, but without a thorough understanding of why this requirement is designed, the rest of the effort is often in vain. Either the user doesn't pay, or the product manager sends it back to make changes. This is a vicious cycle of repeated modifications, and there is no efficiency.

It is impossible to solve problems by superficially meeting demands. You must first understand the core demands of users or bosses and find out the truth behind the demands. Only then can you have appropriate solutions to solve them and cut through the mess quickly. Once the essential issues are resolved, there will be no duplication of workload that delays the original delivery deadline. There are also some needs that are not needs at all, such as just a few random suggestions from the boss. So think ahead and act behind.

20/80 Rule

This is a very direct and abstract concept. This is one of the first things I learned working in a product company. It means using 20% ??of the time/energy/resources to make 80% of the change/impact.

For example, redesign our web app. When I received this task, I didn’t think, OK, I’m going to do a big job and redesign all the pages from scratch. On the contrary, my first step is to find out what resources can be reused and what excellent concepts designed by former designers can be retained. Try to find the most serious errors and correct the design errors in the simplest way. As a result, two weeks from design to programming. It has raised the experience to more than one level.

Practice basic skills

Proficiency in skills will improve work efficiency. Just like cutting potatoes into shreds, if you want to cut them into thick, thin strips consistently and quickly, you must have a good pair of knife hands. The same goes for drawing. With profound basic skills, and all the details that need to be paid attention to, the drawing can be completed very quickly and accurately, in one step. In the eyes of others, a picture that can be drawn in 15 minutes takes years to years to practice. To make a car go fast, you have to oil the wheels frequently.

Avoid duplication of work

Standards will improve work efficiency. Standardized annotation can be unified and standardized based on similar windows and content, instead of different designs and repeated annotations. Building a style guide library and pattern library will significantly increase the time of the design team and engineering team. I will give detailed examples of this in future articles.

Concentrate and respond quickly

Morning is a time when it is more difficult to focus on doing things. The first thing when you arrive at the office is often not to start work. For example, before waking up, various morning news, checking yesterday's news, etc. I am distracted by a lot of information at work, such as group messages, emails, WeChat, pop-up advertisements, etc., including browsing Weibo and various websites when I have nothing to do. It is easy to be distracted by external disturbances. Only after work for a day do I realize that I actually have nothing to do. The work that should be completed in the morning has to be worked overtime or simply postponed until tomorrow. These are diseases of laziness and procrastination that need to be cured. Therefore, you must first learn to block out distractions, and then focus on the content of the work. In the end, you will find that a lot of work has been completed in advance. Focusing helps you think more deeply about your needs and do your work more precisely. The bonus is that the quality of your work will be higher.

Able to respond quickly and handle urgent needs. This is the time when it most affects the user’s feelings. There are also some temporary requirements and bugs that occur almost every day. As long as they are reasonable, go to the discussion-free section and quick output is also possible. Once, it only took 28 seconds to solve a small requirement from modification to output to the product. I was so handsome that I shocked the users. This is the experience I slowly accumulated in my daily life.

Continuous learning

I spend an hour each morning and evening reading design books and browsing excellent design works. I like to collect excellent design works. I have persisted in this habit for 11 years. I believe that genius only belongs to a small number of people, and my creativity comes from "seeing too much".