Notes and thinking of this week

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About the buttons in GetHelp!Current layout:  Refer a friend, Help Her!, Wish her LuckShould change to:  Wish her Luck, Refer a friend, Help Her!  So the last thing they see is Help her!, they are more likely to click ­that last button.

• The last thing or first thing people see have more impact

Incentives, how to engage people?

• Encourage competition, e.g. rankings
• Give space for growing, e.g. “level up”
• Encourage communications among users, “spread the virus”

How to know what your users do?

• Google Analytics
• Deliver different interface to users for A-B testing

Collaboration between programmer & designer

• Click-flow diagram
• Make the tree shallow, to minimize number of clicks
• Mockup
• Reason
• It’s easy to follow, not thinking about the interface every time

Team dynamicsIdea vs. Team?

• Team mates should believe in the idea, otherwise, it’s hard to work hard together
• Team mates should be easy-going, otherwise, hard to work together
• It’s hard to come up with an entire new idea, most of the time, ideas are similar, it’s the people who develop that out

Empathize vs. Escalate?

• What if we cannot make it?
• Be pessimistic
• Plan carefully, set out more ­­check-out point to supervise the entire process
• Back-up plans, do the important things fir st
• Try to understand your friends,
• What they can do
• Their personalities
• When problem happens, maybe solve it with your friends
• Questions I come up with:
• Do you like to code alone?
• How often should we meet?
• What problem have you met recently, how do you solve it?
• What have you learnt?