Interview with Ronghao Jin

I want to use my design to make the world a better place.

To be a designer is my dream, I really love it.

I'm a crossover designer, working in graphic design, industrial design and interactive design. I plan to make more industrial design in future, to make some objects.

They should broaden their views and explore the outside world often, to know about the nature of human and their daily life.

A good designer make good-looking design, a great designer make design to change people's life and even the human being society.

A good design can understand the users, the scenarios and even the times. I evaluate the design on the basis of insightful elements.

A good design can be a simple, direct and powerful tool, which helps people save time, energy and protect environment.

I wish to make more design with great value for the society. For instance, help the poor and disabled people to live better life.

To design a chair

Spend 3 times deeply thinking time, comparing with designing time.

Naoto Fukasawa and Kenya Hara

The CD player designed by Naoto Fukasawa, a simple design full with emotion. Emotion is the highest level of design.

Waterwheel washing machine (reddot award 2013: Best of the Best)
The design helps some under developed areas people wash clothing, even don't have stable electricity

More thinking, more practice and more patience.

I’m not sure, but if so, I must be regretful.

Design is a key to a better life.

My wife Jacqueline. She has a good design taste and sensitive product feeling, although her job is not relative. She always supports me and helps me make this achievement.

I don't want only design some good-looking things, I hope my design can help users get a better experience in daily life, and make the world better.

Not everyone can understand and accept you design thinking, I need to deliberate it and keep it as a basic principle.

Show the thinking process instead of design sketch.

We’re designing a mobile payment app, and plan to bring convenient payment way for Indonesian people. Of course, we wish take part in A’ award design next time.

I hope more people and family will use my design and will like them. I wish my design will improve their life.

To design something can really help them.

The process of designing is the one to consider the users, environment and society, whose aim is to build a better world.

We’re designing a mobile payment app, and will make special adjustment to help monochromat and blind person use it easily.

Waterwheel washing machine (reddot award 2003: Best of the Best), the design combined orient culture and west modern technology, helping under develop areas have a washing clothing way by nature power

Protect intellectual property, and more respect to the design and designer.

Over the past thousand years, the design is more about the visual aspect. Maybe the following trend should be about other senses.

From 1 day to 1 year, I’m generous with my time for the good design.

From users, background of the project and business model and etc.

Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication

Mostly, design sets the trends, as a great design will create a new life style.

A tool to realize your thinking.

Macbook，sketch adobe … tool is not the most important factor.

Help users process the necessary information.

If the design can help me solve the problem.

What’s the scenario of the product, and how does the people use it?

Yes, I do. There’re different types of designers, they can cooperate with each other to be inspired from time to time.

My post-graduated Prof. Huang Tao, gives me a new view of design. He also received a golden prize in this year’s A' design award.

A history of modern design by Shouzhi Wang

Deliberate practice

Steve Jobs, talk something about product design

To get recognition is one of the happiest thing for the designer.

My favorite color is white, grey and red; the place is Barcelona; the food is Hunan cuisine; the season is autumn and the brand is IKEA.

Haha, I had modified a design for 7 times, and the final decision was back to the first one.

Every time, when I realize design is a way to build a better life, I get a lot motivation.

Yes, when I was in elementary school, I was obsessed with a software to design some interesting things. Years later, I knew the software was named Photoshop.

The future is about innovation from all aspects, technology, biology, medicine, of course, design. The world must be more diversified.

Let’s explore the world and share creative ideas together.

Hyku LLC, established in Zhuhai, China, now has offices in Zhuhai, Chengdu and Indonesia.
Our team members come from first class universities, such as Tsinghua University, UIUC ……, covering the design, development, operation, testing and other functions.

The essence of design is to make a better way to live

Product design, including industrial design and software design

The design which can improve the people’s life quality as well as the living environment in the developing areas

Who is the user of the design? What’s the using scenario? How to match with the business purpose?

iOS platform, the unified principles ensuring the users’ experience.

Talking with the real users.

Clear logics to be expressed.

Being passionate and immersed.

Sense of achievement, when the design is being used by many people.

The essence is to solve the problem from users.

If the value of the design is correct and noble.

Concern about the environment, developing areas, and disabled people.

Take me as an example, I work in graphic design, industrial design and interactive design fields. I think the boundaries among different design fields will be obscured in future.

My last exhibition was displayed in the reddot museum in Singapore, 2013, after I got the best of the best, reddot design award. For the next exhibition plan, I’m willing to hold it during the iF design exhibition.

The inspiration is from my thinking about life. And in order to keep my creativity, I’m keeping learning new knowledges from other fields.

My style is inclined to minimalism, as I grow up in the eastern culture, and realize the good design should be clear and simple.

I live in China, and Chinese culture affects my design to some extend, for instance, minimalism, metaphor and graphic style.
The good thing to make design in China is that the country is developing so fast, you have many chances to try and learn. Meanwhile, the cons is the sense of IP protection should be enhanced.

Build the trust and enhance it during frequent and deep cooperation.

Before choosing to cooperate with a designer, make good understanding between each other. And after confirmation of cooperation, give enough space to designer to create things.

Analyze the users’ scenarios, taking user story map as a tool to communicate with the team. Then, make some concept designs and select the right one to realize it.

Hyku App design、Waterwheel washing machine、the furniture from IKEA、the table lamp of Xiaomi、MacBook

Thinking about the design, managing the design team, reading and watching the exhibition.

They should broaden their views and explore the outside world often, to know about the nature of human and their daily life.

A good design can change people’s life, which make you satisfied. However, sometime, the designer is hard to be understood, especially when they make front design.

Minimalism is better

Understand the background of the user and scenarios

Macbook、Sketch、Adobe ……

I’m using some effective time management tool, such as todoist, and take GTM methodology as a guide.

From 1 day to 1 year, concerning to its characteristic.

Why does user and the world need your design?

I worked for a magazine as a design supervisor years ago. Dealing with many layout and graphic design work was very helpful exercise for me if I retrospect.

Sichuan airline, Chengdu airline, Qingdao airline, Sichuan provincial government, DBJ…

App design, as it’ll be reached to millions of people in fort time. I’d love to see my design make change for their life.

Make more industrial design in future, and bring more convenient app to the users.

Work with the team, Hyku has the best team members.

We’re making a mobile payment app for Indonesian market, and be sure it will bring more convenient life for the local people. The team is excited about it.

My email is ronhao.jin@hyku.com, looking forward to receiving all your contacts.

Thank you so much for the A’ design award organization supplies this fair and organized competition.