Workplace reviews and discussion: QNAP_威聯通科技股份有限公司

The office location is spacious, my colleagues are all nice, and it builds patience.

Since it has been quite a while since the Design Center was last updated, I would like to provide some recent updates to the previous descriptions of the manager.

1. Intuition led by inspiration: Possesses powerful design intuition, unconstrained by existing user-needs reports, and dares to propose forward-looking concepts directly from an intuitive and innovative perspective.

2. Pursuit of perfection in efficiency: Places great emphasis on the final quality of design deliverables, aiming for the ultimate “get it right the first time” standard to avoid lengthy iteration processes.

3. Absolute command of details: Has extremely high, seemingly unattainable standards for design quality and treats them as truth. Takes responsibility for proposals and trains subordinates to be able to persuade users through design logic, with clear accountability.

4. Demonstration of rapid problem-solving ability: Has an astonishing ability to predict efficiency and often shares that if he handled something personally, it could be completed in just n days, motivating colleagues to push the limits of efficiency.

5. Passion for visual thinking: Enthusiastic about providing guidance through the most immediate and fastest hand-drawn sketches, with vibrant, multicolored overlapping notes and repeated circling that reveal sparks and layered ideas in the thinking process.

6. Promoter of deep communication: To ensure discussions cover every aspect, meeting times are always planned generously, with a willingness to conduct lengthy, in-depth sharing and comprehensive guidance. Scheduling a two-hour meeting is routine; exceeding three hours is no problem, and occasionally there may even be four hours of nonstop talking.

7. Open-minded flexibility: Always explores better possibilities and does not reach conclusions lightly. Even after a decision has been made, it can be overturned and restarted at any time, training colleagues to remain adaptable amid change.

8. Opportunity for mobile learning: Keeps an eye on project content handled by members of different departments. Whenever a relevant topic arises, colleagues are immediately called into the meeting to receive hands-on, frontline learning.

9. Focus on delivering high value: Believes time is precious. When bringing people into an unscheduled meeting, skips unnecessary pleasantries and background introductions and immediately shares the key points, training colleagues to rapidly absorb and understand fragmented information.

10. Adjustment of strategic priorities: Always adjusts meeting times according to the most urgent or important strategic tasks at hand, training colleagues in patience and the ability to wait so they can投入 work at the best time.

11. Guided questioning in pursuit of the best solution: The questioning process is intended to guide colleagues toward the optimal solution already validated in his mind. This ensures that every proposal has undergone sufficient “discussion.”

12. Unique and innovative terminology system: To describe complex design concepts precisely, has created a proprietary set of internal terms, such as “wave diagram” and “pulled silk,” demonstrating the depth and originality of his thinking.

13. Highly abstract project codes: Habitually uses a concise code system to track departmental affairs, such as P1-1, C0, and 211. You must be extremely focused at work to fully understand their essence.

14. Explosive thought output: Sometimes the manager’s ideas arrive so quickly and forcefully that language and writing cannot keep up with the speed of thought, training colleagues to possess strong information-interpretation and contextual-inference abilities.

15. Extreme enthusiasm for data tracking: Focuses on using Excel for multifaceted progress tracking and analysis, splitting data on the same topic across different files and assigning different, inconsistent filenames, ensuring it can be repeatedly reviewed and cross-referenced from different perspectives.

16. Principle-driven attitude: When sent a link, he often does not click it because he has an astonishing memory and can recall and verify past design decisions at any time, making clicking the link an unnecessary step for him. If the link contains updated content, you should make sure to attach screenshots; that is what constitutes a good user experience for the manager.

17. Encouragement of independent thinking that challenges authority: The department has design guidelines, but colleagues are also encouraged not to follow them blindly, and instead to constantly question and surpass them to reach a higher level of design.

18. Forceful defense of the Design Department’s interests: As the head of the Design Department, he discusses PMs and R&D in internal departmental meetings with a forceful, even somewhat “confrontational,” attitude, ensuring that the Design Department’s value, rights, and responsibilities are not compromised.

19. Determination to drive innovation: Refuses to be constrained by technical feasibility and always pushes the most cutting-edge design concepts to stimulate the engineering team’s potential. Feeling “angry” about proposal progress reflects his desire for excellence.

20. A broad perspective beyond specifications: Unrestricted by rigid annual plans and detailed specifications, he provides the best strategic direction through his exceptional imagination.

21. Advocate of training an unyielding will: Believes a true UXer should possess strong willpower and a sense of responsibility, and therefore considers menstruation a trivial matter that is not sufficient reason to take leave and can be overcome.

22. Establishment of a highly efficient work rhythm: Although the company allows flexible working hours, the manager guides colleagues to find the best and most efficient time period for team synchronization.

23. Rapid execution of senior management’s opinions: Possesses strong comprehension and execution abilities, quickly grasping the deeper intent behind the chairman’s simple message, “Optimize this page a bit,” and immediately taking action.

24. Commitment to inclusive design: No matter how professional the target users are, always designs according to the principle that “even beginners should be able to understand it,” providing additional guidance at no extra cost and ensuring the product has the broadest possible usability.

25. Focus on high-quality social interaction: Believes departmental dinners should focus on valuable and meaningful exchanges, and dislikes colleagues making small talk with one another and wasting time on irrelevant “543.”