Please make money.

The customer service representative said, "Then you should go and meet them in person, take the bonus in your left hand and 200% of the design requirements in your right hand. If you can achieve 100% in the end, then you will be rewarded!"

After all, Party B always likes to compromise, just like Party A always likes the first version of the design. Everyone is used to loving and hating each other...

The Second Young Master Jing readily accepted the offer and withdrew one million in cash. Now he comes here to mess things up - oh, that's not right - he wants to have a friendly conversation.

After all, if he didn't come, the content being passed down layer by layer would sooner or later become distorted.

Boss: We need a speedboat.

Executive: The boss said he wanted a speedboat that was as big, good and fast as a battlecruiser.

Design: Starship design.JPG

The docking technicians look at the blueprint: Death Star.PNG

Processing Budget: Canoe Money

The final product: a pared-down speedboat that is anything but ordinary…

Young Master Jing arrived and met the person in charge of this design project, Engineer Chen from the designer team, in the conference room.

There were several senior executives accompanying Mr. Chen. They were sitting in a translucent frosted glass conference room, waiting for Mr. Jing to do something bad.

Through the glass waistline, you can see more than 50 designers busying around in the crowded office outside - they are also looking inside!

Young Master Jing cleared his throat and said, "Hello everyone, I am the CEO of the department who has only been working for a few days. My name is Ai Lijing."

Everyone looked at each other in surprise. This CEO was unusual, with a unique style, and he seemed to be a trainee.

Is this in line with the PUA approach of executives?

Young Master Jing had no idea that they were secretly criticizing him for being a poor talker and incompetent, so he just looked at the project leader and got straight to the point.

"Mr. Chen, how is the design progress of the new product?"

"Well, Mr. Ai, as you can see here, more than 50 designers are working together and everyone is making good progress."

Young Master Jing nodded: "Is that so... Then let's talk about the next plan first. Also, let's summarize everyone's previous project designs. We will take a look at the details in ten minutes."

“…Ten minutes?!”

An executive next to Mr. Chen stood up in shock. The sound coming from the open meeting room could be heard by everyone.

The designers outside were suddenly in an uproar, and they could even vaguely see the illusory appearance of a group of people wailing and wailing frantically.

——That was everyone’s crazy mood.

Summary! Ten minutes?!

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible! They need to give me at least two days to coordinate the design changes and alignment!"

"Resign! Resign - I can't do this any longer! If you don't want me here, I'll find someone else to stay -"

"This is a bonus to everyone for working overtime these days." The voice of Mr. Jing interrupted the tragedy that was about to happen.

Everyone's attention quickly shifted to the conference room. Through the semi-transparent glass waistline, they could see Young Master Jing opening a box.

Cash! A box of cash!!

"Five thousand per person, including overtime pay and project rewards for the past few days. Engineer Chen, you are the part-time project manager. You will distribute the money later. Everyone has worked hard."

The design team was silent for a while, then sat down and began to work with the efficiency and attitude that can only be seen in movies.

"Information! Where is Group A's information?"

"Coordination! Group C has three designs for the exterior. Which one should we choose?!"

"Team B, come here and put this model on. I'll give you three minutes!!"

"Tell the technical staff that if they can't meet this energy consumption target, they will go to hell—"

In the conference room, everyone looked at the executive who stood up without saying anything.

The latter wiped the sweat off his face and sat down: "Ten minutes... OK, OK, we have already finished the first draft..."

The most taboo thing in product design is speed. This is not to say that there is a problem of this or that kind, but it will make your boss or the client feel that you are not serious.

It's like Michelangelo would sprinkle lime on the nose of his sculpture to deal with those nitpicking onlookers.

In this impetuous era, if your boss gives you three days, most of the time even if you have a ready-made plan will have to be polished until the third day before it can be submitted.

Otherwise, if you finish the work on the first day, will you be given two days off?

As for salary and rewards, it’s even harder to say. It’s well known that design work is not understood by people - isn’t it just a matter of moving the mouse?

What is the hard work, sweat, inspiration behind it? It can't be quantified!

Before the product comes out, all the hype is just self-flattery. But after it comes out and becomes a big hit, what role does the design team have?

That must be the boss's unique vision...

So generally speaking, formal design teams negotiate salaries based on projects, and some will even ask for a commission on the project’s profits.

But that is the designer team, not the designer screws supported by the group - let's talk about this month's salary, family members, talking about money hurts feelings...

Young Master Jing has no experience in executive PUA, he only knows two things.

First, this job is complicated and difficult, and requires the help of professionals.

Second, my sister said that it is better to make a pancake than to draw a picture of it. Don’t just let the donkey pull the mill without giving people a carrot.

It is difficult to determine the project profit dividends for the time being, so let’s just give out the money directly!

As a result, Mr. Jing developed a habit that was later criticized as one of the "most shameless means of competition", which was to throw large boxes of cash at people everywhere.

I don’t have the technology, and you don’t have the money—I’ll leave this project to you guys…

……

……

"A house is a necessary property for a family, and it is also the most core property!"

Young Master Jing got straight to the point and pointed at the two words "house" on the day class, as if he was teaching a child to read them.

"And the most important factor in determining the quality of life in a house is home appliances!"

Everyone nodded, saying it was well said, very cleverly said, and took careful notes - but the problem is, who doesn't know these plain words?

"Many people feel that this track has reached a dead end. What else can home appliances do? It's nothing more than piling up materials, changing the design and appearance, or reducing prices to increase sales."

Jing Ershao then asked everyone to spread out the plans in their hands and once again explained the core idea of ​​this design: "Smart whole house! Human-computer interaction!"

"Boss Ai, we understand what you said, but..."

"No, no, no, no, Mr. Chen, I'm here because you don't understand."

Young Master Jing interrupted Engineer Chen's defense: "I've seen your ideas. The so-called smart home appliances are just an extra display screen that displays more information. Some are even smart enough to add advertisements and news on it. Do you know my sister... well, do you know how we felt after seeing it?"

"…What does it feel like?"

"It's just intelligence for the sake of intelligence. It's a gimmick, not a real selling point!"

"Then what are we going to do?"

"I brought two things with me this time."

Young Master Jing opened another box, inside which were several special key chains - or rather, small chips made to look like key chains.

"This is the IoT chip we just got. What I want is for everyone to redesign the entire intelligent interaction idea based on this chip."

"This..." Everyone took the chip and passed it around, but for a moment they had no clue.

What is the new idea?

"Let me give you an example. If you buy full-scenario customized furniture from Aire Home Appliances, and all your home appliances are connected to an IoT platform, then your home appliances should not exist independently. When you get up in the morning, the automatic curtain machine will help you draw the light-blocking curtains when you were sleeping last night, and it will automatically open them for you in the morning, giving you the warmest and most comfortable sunlight, shining on your face to wake you up. The temperature and humidity monitoring is linked, which is more delicate and less irritating than human perception, and protects your life."

"..."

"You get up and wash up. On your mirror there is the weather forecast, current political news, and the schedule you casually asked the voice intelligence software to record yesterday."

"...?"

"When you go out, your smart home detection device detects that you have closed the door, and automatically checks whether the lights are turned off and the gas in the kitchen is turned off, and then helps you turn on the access control monitoring and pet care equipment at home."

"...??"

"When you go home to cook, your kitchen appliances come with recipes and a list of corresponding baking ingredients. It's like buying a bread machine. All you need to learn is to throw the ingredients in, and it will knead the dough, ferment, bake... and finally tell you that the bread is ready and you can eat it. You don't need a lot of time to learn. Of course, if you like cooking, you can also learn to create it yourself, but we have to have a bottom-line solution for customers."

The executives exchanged looks—was he talking about some sci-fi scenario?

Oh, bread machines don't count, that's simple, just have a built-in program for mixing dough and baking time...

"This, Mr. Ai..."

Engineer Chen had no choice but to interrupt Young Master Jing's speech: "Your idea is good, but if I may be frank, it seems difficult to do."

“This is a vision, so we have to start with individual products. To achieve this ultimate vision of the future, two points are crucial.”

Young Master Jing held up the chip and said, "First, we have our own chip design solution for the access platform, so we can think of how to implement our IoT system from the beginning, instead of patching up other solutions. I think everyone should understand the difficulty, right?"

"Ok, Ok……"

"In the future, all our Aire home appliance products must be able to connect to Aire home appliance's intelligent management terminal! Infrared, Bluetooth, WiFi, NFC... all possible connection methods must be used. In the future, when the mobile phone is close to the home appliance and the NFC tag is touched, a prompt will pop up and it will automatically detect and integrate into the home platform!"

"In that case, we need a program—"

"You need to recruit 100 programmers, and this is the minimum requirement. If you need more later, just report to the HR department!"

"...Yes, I understand."

"Secondly, I want all products to have a unified design style and ensure interconnection and coordination. I prefer less to more, and better to be refined than to be sloppy. I can't have 8 different types of lights in my product line, and then I have to search for them when I add them, and I have to choose from them when I incorporate them into the platform, and I have to add this or that accessory when I use them... This is absolutely not allowed! Usability is the top priority. If you have children at home, those under years old should be able to use them easily. That's what we want!"

Project managers and executives are no longer just worried, they are actually feeling dizzy.

Why do we really need a star destroyer? Can't we just talk about the sampan?

"Boss Ai, these ideas are good, but..."

"Lack of talent?" Young Master Jing pushed up his glasses and said, "What else do you lack? Tell me."

"Lack of experience..."

"What you need to do is not to copy others, but to create something new! The biggest selling point of the smart furniture on the market is to add a screen and put ads on it! If you can't even surpass them, how can you design? What's the point of our ecological counter-attack!"

"But--"

"You want money? I'll approve it for you now. 20 million! The first set of three-piece Aier home appliances, a refrigerator, a washing machine, and an air conditioner!"

Engineer Chen slowly widened his eyes, as if he was looking at an alien: "How much?!"

"Twenty million! I want a unique industrial aesthetic design! I'll transfer people from the programming team to you. If you want to come up with some ideas, linkages, or human-computer interactions, you can hire a thousand programmers if you think a hundred are not enough. If a thousand are not enough, you can hire ten thousand. From now on, the previous models of Aire Home Appliances have been gradually removed from the shelves. We still have three months, and during these three months I have to manufacture, ship, transport, and market... so the design department still has thirty days!"

Young Master Jing leaned forward and supported the conference table: "If the first batch of products is produced in three months and can be recognized by consumers, then we will win. This unlimited support for your design department's attempts will continue. I will give you everything you want!"

Mr. Chen's eyes were a little dull, and no one knew what he was thinking. It seemed that he was uncomfortable with Young Master Jing's behavior being too frivolous and crazy.

Taking all products off the shelves and betting on a new product line that doesn't even have a design prototype is something that cannot be explained by madness.

It's only because the Ai Group is a family business that it doesn't need to say anything to the board of directors, otherwise the shareholders would probably start beating up CEO Jing Ershao.

Young Master Jing looked at his expression and seemed quite calm instead.

"If we can't do it." He smiled and took off his work badge: "I will take the responsibility, don't worry - but Engineer Chen, all of you, just keep muddling along."

"..."

"So do you want to join me and let the market cry wolf, or do you want to just go with the flow and live your life as a human being? What do you think, Mr. Chen?"

"..." Engineer Chen was silent for half a minute, took a deep breath and said, "Boss Ai."

"Ok?"

"You may not be familiar with my nickname in school."

As Mr. Chen spoke, he took off his glasses, let down his hair that was casually tied up with a headband, and tied it into a neat little ponytail at the back of his head.

By the time he put on his glasses again, the 30-something 'elite' man who had seemed a little decadent, a little greasy, and a little fawning had completely changed his temperament.

Like a thug with a lot of energy...

"When I was in school, I was called a workaholic. It didn't mean that I worked very hard, but when I submitted my final project, I came up with thirteen plans in a month. I was very fast—"

"……so?"

"You have to pay more!"

Engineer Chen stared at Young Master Jing's face, as if he wanted to see through this young CEO: "I want to recruit people! A lot of people!"