28 October 2002.

Monday.

It's still a weekly Caucus.

At the meeting, Li Zhengyi announced that starting from November 1, Zhengyi R&D Center was formally established, and the R&D center was mainly based on Ouyangqing, and the personnel were temporarily only Ouyangqing, and the establishment was divided into a technical R&D team, a product testing team, a service support team, and a planning architecture team.

In addition, there is a user experience management group, as the top priority, Li Zhengyi separated it from the service support team and handed it over to Ouyang Qing's direct management, which must always keep in mind that the improvement direction of all products is guided by customer experience.

In the future, no matter how perfect the program development and product improvement is, as long as there is more than a certain percentage of customer feedback that is not good, then we should focus on following up this part and strive to achieve perfection.

As for the specific team members, the R&D center can be freely deployed, and the overall number of people is tentatively set at about 10 people at the initial stage, and they will be available in the next one to two months. Among them, the early stage personnel are mainly the planning architecture team and the technical development team, and the other two team members can be deferred for a period of time.

After Ouyang Qing was transferred from Journey Technology, Ling Haixiao, the former head of game production and deputy director of Journey Technology, was promoted to the technical director of Journey Technology, and on the basis of being responsible for all the affairs of the technical department, he was still in charge of the development of Journey Games.

Nerve Knife, the former head of the R&D team of the Journey Game Production Team of Zhengtu Technology, was promoted to the general director of the game and deputy technical director, and sat in Ling Haixiao's original position, and his supervisor position was competed for by the internal members of the group.

The establishment of the R&D center should have a direct task assignment, but Li Zhengyi and Ouyang Ouyang Qing both knew that what was to be done now should not be made public, but the establishment of the R&D center could not be done without a task.

Originally, Li Zhengyi wanted to prevaricate for the time being and discuss the first main task of the R&D center after a while, but Zhuang Xiangqiu suddenly proposed at this time, saying that the recruitment of personnel in the R&D center would make great progress in the next few days.

Zhuang Xiangqiu means that with the arrival of personnel, the work assignment and job responsibilities will be formulated by Ouyang Qing, and it will no longer have anything to do with the Alipay Administration Department.

As soon as they talked about this, the group members talked about the focus of work in a few words.

Li Zheng thought about it for a while, and suddenly thought of the input method problem at this stage, so he proposed: "About the first R & D goal of the R & D center, I have an idea here, you weigh and evaluate, is it possible to make an input tool that is different from the current Wang Code Wubi and intelligent ABC input method?"

The reason why I thought of this problem was because Li Zhengyi suddenly remembered that whether it was a past life or a present life, he complained about the old input method of intelligent ABC.

In Li Zhengyi's well-known memory,Intelligent ABC input method was once called the space bar input method,The reason is that this input method has to keep pressing the space bar,After entering the pinyin, you have to press the space bar to have alternative words out,After selecting the words,You also have to press the space bar to confirm。

In the past, as long as you chatted, the sound of your thumb tapping the space bar would be endless, which was a unique scenery in Internet cafes.

The most critical problem is that the former intelligent ABC does not have a memory function, no matter what words you have typed, you still have to find it in the original position when you type it the second time, and as for the phrase memory function, it is even more fantastical.

Later, Sogou input method came out,Take advantage of these three advantages,Instantly occupied the input method market,Its speed is so fast,Described as lightning fast,It's not an exaggeration at all。

Many of the people here are from technical backgrounds, and they are not very picky about the input method, but they are dispensable, and they first asked: "What should the input method become?"

Li Zhengyi tried his best to recall the Sogou input method in his previous life, reviewed the general functions, and then roughly talked about the small toolbox functions such as word memory function, thesaurus search function, space bar optimization, and skin, handwriting, and screenshots.

The first reaction of the technical party was to test whether the function mentioned by Li Zhengyi was easy to implement, and the non-technical party such as Liu Qiandong and Zhuang Xiangqiu were the first to perceive the advantages of this input method.

Liu Walldong said with a smile: "Mr. Li, if the input method you said can be realized, then there is a chance that it can be quickly promoted, and the number of users is guaranteed to skyrocket." ”

Zhuang Xiangqiu immediately agreed with Liu Walldong's statement.

Zhang Xiaolong is a well-known product manager, with a natural sensitivity to products, and he first asked the question: "This kind of input method is not very difficult to make alone, but the key is that the user experience is not easy to do." ”

"What do you say?" Ling Haitsumi was a gamer, and he was not sensitive enough to this part, so he asked.

Zhang Xiaolong said: "The first consideration is compatibility,What is compatibility,I think you should be clear,At this stage,All kinds of games、General software、Special software and including those with bug applications,Input methods must be compatible,If you are not compatible,Users will definitely have opinions,If you have opinions, you will not use your input method。 ”

Shi Shengjie added: "This is the key reason why Mr. Zhang said that the input method may not be difficult to make, and the user experience is not good, because you can't expect all software, games and various BUG-type applications to be compatible with you, only you are compatible with others, and you have to update your input method according to the update progress of software and games on the market, this workload is not something that can be completed by an individual, and it requires the cooperation of a large team." ”

Several other people nodded frequently when they listened, in fact, it was, which is why many input methods on the market always have various problems.

Ouyang Qing considered the problem more deeply, and he followed the train of thought of the two and further explained: "On the basis of compatibility, we should also consider the issues of timeliness and computing efficiency. Timeliness is the thesaurus, which tests the ability of the background program to refine the data, and this process must be supplemented by a large number of manual verification to improve; computing efficiency is that it must be designed and optimized in terms of data structure, algorithm, software architecture, efficient reading and writing ability of the thesaurus, multi-threaded efficient rewriting and calling ability, and efficient word choice and sentence function. Therefore, in order to achieve the functions mentioned earlier, such as memory and search, these aspects must be perfected. ”

Li Zhengyi listened to a round of discussions, and found that a small input method, it doesn't seem to be as simple as he imagined, maybe it has to be done as a big project.

There are many benefits of making the input method bigger, such as enhancing brand value, as a traffic entrance, increasing sticky users, improving promotion capabilities, and accumulating for subsequent layouts, etc., but the only thing Li Zhengyi can't figure out is how this input method should achieve direct profits.