No. 11 Dongping Road, Qilin Technology Office.

Tony Fadell is leading the team to work hard on the IPod product design.

However, what they did was the product functional design and the internal part layout design. As for the product's appearance design, Lu Ze naturally didn't worry them.

Although the team of Tony Fadell will definitely be able to design the product in the end, Lu Ze couldn't wait for so long and did it himself.

Of course, he doesn't have the skill and can make relevant design artworks.

Instead, it depends on the industrial product designers recruited by [Qilin Technology] and work together.

Liu Chuankai Carl Liu, a native of Baodao, is the leader of the product design department and the design director of [Qilin Technology].

This is a super talent that Lu Ze asked Liu Min to poach through a high salary from a headhunting company.

Although he is not well-known in China at this time, he was a well-known figure in the industrial design industry in Lu Ze's previous life.

After graduating from the Art Center School of Design in California, USA, he worked as a product designer at ASTRO PRODUCTS, a famous studio in PALO ALTO.

During this period, he participated in the design projects of many internationally renowned enterprises and won the awards of the United States Industrial Design Association and ID Magazine several times.

Among them, PAQ's PAD IPAQ and RIAX3 WATCH have successfully achieved sales results for enterprises, which is the best testimony to enhance product value through design.

After a few years, he created and published two books "Product Creative Design" series, which are must-read classic works by industrial designers. Many sketches by domestic and foreign designers were also deeply influenced by Liu Chuankai's sketch style.

Later, he also worked in internationally renowned companies such as Motorola, Intel, Disney, and BMW.

In the era of smart hardware when the mobile Internet is approaching, what he knows best is to become the vice president of design of Niu Electric Vehicles, and he can be said to be a super big shot in the field of industrial design.

In Lu Ze's previous life, there is no need to say much about Liu Chuankai's achievements, but now he is still a young designer who is just about to return to China to develop.

It was the super talent that the headhunter company had worked hard to find from Motorola’s high salary.

Even if [Qilin Technology] doesn't poach him, he will start his own business and create his own design studio in 2002.

The reason why Liu Chuankai returned to China was because he was attracted by the rapid development of the country and various opportunities that were promising in the future.

As a result, somehow, the headhunter company tricked him into [Qilin Technology].

For this reason, Liu Min paid a lot of headhunting commission.

The reason why Lu Ze poached him uniformly was that he was attracted by his experience in designing paq PAD iPAQ at Compaq.

Although it is the "i" series, iPAQ is not an Apple product.

Instead, the handheld computer (PDA) launched by the American Paq (Combat) Computer Company is "the earliest batch of smartphones in the world."

PDA was once the biggest dream of many people when they were young and was the standard for successful business people.

As a designer of paq PAD iPAQ, Liu Chuankai is naturally familiar with the design of electronic products.

In the future, Lu Ze intervened in the mobile phone field and his design talent can be further demonstrated.

But now, this super talent has a headache.

As a designer, my biggest wish is to not be disturbed by external forces when designing and to create completely according to your own intentions.

After creation, it is best that the customer is very satisfied. This is the life that all designers yearn for.

I originally thought that based on my past experience, I would definitely be able to tell the truth when I came to a small company like Qilin Technology, and no one could point fingers at him in terms of design.

After all, I would definitely hope that he would play a role if I spent a lot of money to poach him.

Which boss has a cramp in his brain and invites a top designer to come with a high salary to be a tool for himself?

But he just met him, not only as a tool man, but also as a tool man who ordered him from beginning to end.

Then why should I ask him? You can find a student at the Academy of Fine Arts to do it.

If it weren't for Kirin Technology's salary of 30% higher than the industry, Liu Chuankai would have wanted to leave on the spot, and he wouldn't have looked at the young boss at first sight.

That's right, this young boss is Lu Ze.

He is the stupid boss who treats Liu Chuankai, a top industrial designer, as a tool man.

At first, Liu Chuankai felt very uncomfortable and could not stand Lu Ze's fingers at the design.

For this reason, he deliberately took a leave of absence for two days and skipped work at home to consider whether he would resign or leave.

But when he recalls that Tony Fadell, Bill Kincaid and Jeff Robin are all here, he hesitated again.

Because [Qilin Technology] is a newly established startup company, Liu Chuankai, who has been in the United States for so long, is very clear about how big the prospects of the startup company has.

Moreover, the big boss Lu Ze also promised in front of everyone that once the product is produced, he will conduct an option reward plan for everyone.

In a mature and large company like Motorola and BMW, there is no such treatment.

No matter how profitable a large company is, shares have nothing to do with workers like them. Only startups have various possibilities.

I took advantage of the Internet winter to return to China to develop this time, just to see if there are any greater opportunities? Now the opportunity is in front of me, can I just leave easily?

Although the boss pointed at the design, the guys in Silicon Valley were always as excited as if they were injected with chicken blood when discussing the product.

He was a little unwilling to give up. If he missed a good opportunity, wouldn’t he regret it for life?

After two days of trouble, Liu Chuankai returned to [Qilin Technology] and became a qualified tool.

He draws whatever Lu Ze said.

The shape, curvature, button layout, functional interface, and manuscript paper were used one after another. With his deep sketching skills, he finally drew the drawings that Lu Ze was satisfied with.

Don’t think that this process is very simple. After all, Lu Ze is not a professional designer. He only saw physical products in his previous life.

But he could not say so deliberately in his description, so he could only induce Liu Chuankai to finally complete the entire product design step by step.

In the process, not only did Lu Ze need to have a clear concept, but Liu Chuankai also needed to have a good understanding of electronic products. Otherwise, it would be like a chicken and a duck to talk, and it would be difficult to draw the sample draft.

Not to mention product design, if you ask a designer to design a logo and go through the process of communicating with the designer, you will understand.

The design communication of LOGO pictures is far less easy than imagined, let alone electronic products.

But now, a few perfect design artworks appear in front of Lu Ze.

The "Iron Triangle" of Ailihe, now the iPrism of [Kirin Technology] is perfectly presented.

The design draft of Apple's iPod generation has now appeared on the drawings of [Kirin Technology].

Lu Ze was very satisfied with Liu Chuankai's ability.

If you want to change to an inexperienced industrial designer, the process cycle of the design artwork implementation will be extended many times.

The appearance and rough size parameters have come out, and the rest of the work is Tony Fadell and their tasks.

They need to further design the corresponding functions and spare parts layout according to the drawings, and find suitable suppliers, and finally realize the product.

While happy, Lu Ze greeted Tony Fadell and the others: "Guys, the design draft is out, everyone comes over and take a look."

Not only Tony Fadell's team came over, but also Bill Kincaid and Jeff Robin's teams who developed iTunes also gathered.

Liu Chuankai silly distributed the drawings to everyone to appreciate, and he was still shocked by Lu Ze's inexplicable design talent.

He felt that he had been studying for so many years of design major courses in vain, and he felt that his years of work experience was meaningless. Because in front of a real product design genius, those were worthless.

Otherwise, why can Lu Ze, who has no design experience, design such a perfect product?

It was as if the finished product had already appeared in Lu Ze's mind, he just described the product.

Liu Chuankai doesn't understand it very much. He has been in the industrial design circle for so many years and has never heard of any design genius who can design products like Lu Ze, almost without an intermediate process.

You should know that he has experienced countless modifications, fine-tuning, or even deleting and redesigning products before designing them.

But Lu Ze didn't need these processes at all.

If it weren't for the illegality, Liu Chuankai would have wanted to pry Lu Ze's head open to see what structure it was inside.

Just as Liu Chuankai was puzzled, the Silicon Valley technicians were constantly exclaiming.

"Oh, boss, this design is simply amazing."

“This is the best electronic product I’ve ever seen, no one.”

"Is this product called iPrism? It's completely designed for the outdoors. I think countless sports enthusiasts will go crazy about this product."

“I like the iPod because it represents the future.”

"Yes, the iPod is full of technology, it is completely the best walkman product for the next generation."

Everyone was shocked by Lu Ze's design. After seeing the design artwork, no one was worried about joining Qilin Technology.

Everyone was as energetic as if they had eaten Viagra, and they wanted to work overtime all night tonight to realize the product as soon as possible.

Looking at everyone's excitement, Lu Ze was also very happy. What the hardware technology company wants is this geeky spirit.

He praised Liu Chuankai: "Carl, thank you for your hard work during this period. This cooperation is perfect. We look forward to our cooperation in the next product."

"Uh, yes, BOSS, just be happy." Liu Chuankai and Liu Dana replied with a stiff expression.

Will you come again next time? He doesn't want this kind of design experience like a puppet.

He never wants to be a tool person if he has any choice.

But Lu Ze's design process made him have a strong interest.

He was very curious about what kind of field it was? If he had learned a little from Lu Ze, would his design ability break through to the next level?

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