Chapter 298 Communicate with Emojis

Mike, who is in charge of the [ICY] project, arrives in New York with his team's months of hard work, accompanied by his beautiful girlfriend and secretary, Sophia.

The ICY instant chat software stored in Zài's laptop made Fu Zhengyi frown the moment it was clicked on. "Why isn't it the interface that the company originally requested?"

Mike, who was stunned, quickly explained. "Boss, which our team determined after surveying nearly half of the students at Stanford University, may seem a bit complicated, but it's powerful and extremely scalable, and there are shortcuts that allow users to add links to web pages......"

Fu Zhengyi, who started to register while listening to Mike's introduction, saw that the registration also needed to be verified by guò email, but he was really speechless, and turned his face to Sophia and asked. "I remember that the company sent you an email specifically asking you to supervise the development progress of this software and supervise it according to the company's requirements, why didn't it execute?"

She had been carefully observing his expression, so Sophia put the notebook she was holding in front of Fu Zhengyi and explained. "Ah...... I was in charge of conducting user research on the interface of the software, and most of the students in the school thought that the interface that the company wanted was too simple and featureless, so I came here with six different interface products, and if you think this one is not suitable, there are other alternatives!"

Fu Zhengyi, who took Sophia's notebook, found the penguin icon he was most familiar with in his previous life from the shortcuts of the six icons, but shook his head after entering. Because the registration method is still quite complicated, and it also needs to be verified by the email address before it can be used.

"Mike. While I understand that you want to come up with a software that can surpass ICQ, I need to remind you for the record. The company requires that how to develop the team you lead must be firmly implemented, if there are comments, you can put forward, but the company gave [icy] funds not for experiments, but to be able to come up with a live chat product that is both stable and interesting, and can also have extremely high user viscosity!"

Stunned, Mike wanted to open his mouth to defend himself, but Sophia, who was sitting next to him, knew that Fu Zhengyi's words had not yet been finished, so she immediately stepped on Mike fiercely.

"The user viscosity of the ICY software will determine the living space and time limit of this product, and once it is officially launched, it can no longer be drastically changed, which is what gives you almost complete product development. And the root cause of allowing [ICY] to take the product until now!"

Seeing Fu Zhengyi's calm face, Mark hesitated and spoke. "Boss, I admit that my team is overconfident in product development, and I will never make such a principled mistake again!"

"Although this product is a product developed for users who have computers and networks, the user group is not the current students who can use computers and employees of large companies, but needs to be open to everyone! Users from eight to eighty years old should be able to easily register and apply for an account, rather than how to position this product as 'tall', for elites to show off their computer level and show off their programming skills!"

I didn't expect it to take so long. But he only came up with such a software that is extremely difficult to register, complex in function, and has a high degree of scalability, and Fu Zhengyi, who originally thought that what he saw should be the product he was familiar with in his previous life, was very disappointed.

Initially, it was because Mike had a keen intuition that he quickly seized the opportunity that ICQ had not yet been able to quickly spread. He wanted to get a start-up fund to develop his career in a blinded way, but the result gave him the right development ideas and even how to design the interface, but in the end he still didn't come up with a product that satisfied him. This makes Fu Zhengyi both puzzled and strange!

Sensing that Fu Zhengyi was really disappointed, Sophia couldn't care about Mike's face. Hurry up and explain. "Boss, Mike's team wants to make the product as good as possible. The company's original software was developed in mid-November, but because of the frustrating results of the market research, he had to redesign the software, which delayed the time......"

"It was done two months ago, so why didn't you send an email to the company in time to confirm?"

"boss, it's because Mike wants to make a perfect product, so he decided to redevelop it after conducting research in the school, so the first software designed according to the company's requirements was temporarily stopped from follow-up development, I'll call it out for you to see......"

Going around to Fu Zhengyi's side, Sophia opened a separate text folder for saving zài, which allowed Fu Zhengyi to see the familiar penguin icon.

With a double-click of the mouse, the pop-up registration process only takes four steps to get the user started.

With a familiar interface and familiar icons, Fu Zhengyi breathed a sigh of relief. "Isn't this kind of software very good? simple and convenient!"

Mike, pouting. "But this version is too simple, the whole interface has no highlights, although the grouping function allows users to add friends as they like, but it is just a chat tool, it can't be expanded more, and it can't make users pleasing to the eye......"

If this product wants to make the user pleasing to the eye, it needs other conditions, the user's viscosity needs to be gradually enhanced, and the use habit determines the length of the life cycle of this product, not all users are programming masters, and not all users use it as a chat tool, in the future it will become a necessary software for every computer foundation, and the speed of development needs to be gradual, not a step to the sky!"

While explaining and checking the functions of the software, Fu Zhengyi was soon surprised to find that this product was as similar as ninety percent to the software he had used in his previous life!

Bringing up the emoji panel, in addition to the basic emojis, he also found that there were some stick figures similar to random graffiti, and the images of animals and plants outlined by a few strokes were extremely cute and simple, so Fu Zhengyi asked. "Who is responsible for the memes? These are not what the company originally designed!"

When Fu Zhengyi looked at these emojis, Sophia became nervous, and saw that he was not displeased when he checked these emojis, so he pointed to his embarrassed opening and said. "It's me, I loved drawing when I was in middle school, so I stuffed all these designs when I was bored......"

"Very good, after going back this time, you can set up an independent emoji design department in the company, and strive to design an emoji package that can make two strangers who can't type communicate without any text, the requirements are continuous and complete, and each set of emojis is best not more than thirty, so that you can easily distinguish, select and use ...... on one page."

When stuffing these emojis into the software, Sophia was not less reprimanded by Mike, so seeing that Fu Zhengyi was really very interested but happy, she quickly opened the text folder where she saved her graffiti, and let him see the patterns he had made before.

"Cats, dogs, pandas, and even alpacas, koalas, and other animals that look characteristic and characteristic on the outside can be developed......!

Carefully recording Fu Zhengyi's request, after he finished thinking about it, Sophia casually drew a double circle and grinning dog head pattern, and said excitedly at Fu Zhengyi. "Boss, do you mean that this pattern is used to indicate that the user is 'laughing'?"

"Yes, it seems that you have understood the requirements of the design, remember one thing, each icon should be as simple and straightforward as possible, no need to render, no need to be complicated, and no need to be completely realistic!

Mike, who was sitting on the side, was completely dumbfounded.

He watched his excited girlfriend Sophia show the graffiti that had been rejected by the team, explained the meaning in detail, and even demonstrated it with his own expression!

He had long sensed that Mike's feelings were wrong, and seeing that he was pouting with disdain for his girlfriend Sophia's expression, Fu Zhengyi turned to him and said. "Mike, don't think what Sophia is doing is redundant and boring, if ICY wants to be successful, these patterns or small things called emojis will make [ICY] a must-have software for all ages, and make her account the most important secret besides her ID card and wallet!

The user's viscosity needs to be in the details, not so powerful that it needs to be so complex that only professionals can use it! This product is aimed at everyone, not to be a show-off for technicians!"

Mike, who was startled when he heard the sound, broke out in a cold sweat.

He finally realized that the work he had been doing during this time had actually become a place for programmers to show off their skills, and that his focus was based on the computer science students at Stanford rather than the average user who knew little about computers.

"Boss, I understand the reason for my mistake, in the future I will block the interference of the technical department, and consider this product from the perspective of an ordinary computer user, so that it can occupy the lower right corner of every computer!"

"It's best to understand this! Don't look at the other products, veto them all! Stress test the penguin and try to bring it to market in two weeks, initially just make sure the chat is smooth and the expression is working! There is no need to wait for it to be fully functional and flawless! Because the later the market is developed, it means that the market will be occupied by ICQ for a larger and larger share ......" (To be continued.) )