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Sauli Laitinen

Vaisala

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“没有理由的设计” - 一种推动创新的哲学

Vaisala设计部的指导口头禅是“没有理由的设计”。这听起来很明显,但是他们真正的意思是“没有正当理由,没有设计”,因为他们认为太多的公司为其产品添加了不增加客户价值的功能。

As Head of Design at the Finnish measurement technology company Vaisala, Sauli Laitinen plays an important role in preserving and enhancing the company’s long-standing reputation for quality and innovation. A heavy responsibility, one might suppose, for someone with two degrees in Psychology, but Sauli is keen to point out that good design is grounded in a deep understanding of customer behaviour. After 14 years working in Research & Development at Vaisala, Sauli says: “I am fortunate to be working in an ‘ideas factory’, which is as exciting now as it was when I first started.” So, we took this opportunity to ask him how important product design is at Vaisala, how it affects the company brand, and why there is ‘no design without reason’.

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UX团队

好奇心

瓦萨拉(Vaisala)的历史可以追溯到1930年代,当时该公司的创始人发明了辐射的一些操作原则。好奇心,满足挑战的愿望以及具有创新的非凡能力仍然是该公司的核心。如今,对创新的关注一如既往地强大,并能够开发多种技术,这些技术旨在为更美好的世界提供观察。Vaisala雇用了约1,900名员工,目前将其生产的98%出口到150多个国家。

表格遵循功能

对于任何开发和生产新产品的公司来说,设计显然都是重要的,但是对于Vaisala来说,设计更大。它定义了整个公司。在设计产品时,Vaisala设计师问自己:“这感觉像Vaisala产品吗?”这样一来,他们不仅在评估外表,尽管这本身很重要。他们还询问产品是否满足客户需求,以及准确性,可靠性,寿命和易用性的最高标准。正如Sauli所说:“我们的客户期望我们的产品是市场上最好的产品,因此我们绝不能也不会让他们失望。”

No idea is a bad idea

设计团队的理念是在框外思考。对知道没有人会因“梦想不可能”而受到批评的知识充满信心。

新市场领先产品的想法可能来自各种各样的来源,但是所有这些产品都必须提供目前无法使用的东西,并且它们必须比任何其他产品都更好地解决客户的问题。Vaisala设计部门的指导咒语是“没有理由的设计”一词,因此,没有机会浪费设计工作的机会,而不会在客户眼中增加价值。索利(Sauli)解释说:“经常,公司开发产品或产品功能,不会为用户带来真正的价值。当设计师与客户失去联系时,这可能会发生。因此,我们竭尽全力确保我们所有的候选产品完全以用户为中心,并为其预定的应用而设计。”

找到正确解决的问题是一项熟练的活动。

For Vaisala this involves sending product and application experts out to visit and observe customers doing their normal work. Sauli says: “If you just ask people what they want, there is a danger that you only get half the story, so it is important to observe them in their work; to ask the right questions and find hidden needs, which means that the researchers must have a deep understanding of the customers and their businesses. A key area of expertise is the combination of application knowledge and an ability to provide answers to the questions customers didn’t even know they had.”

有趣的是,当我们与Sauli交谈时,他从未提及竞争对手。当我们问为什么时,他说:“当然,如果您想成为市场领导者,就必须不断基准测试自己,但是从产品设计和开发的角度来看,跟随竞争对手是没有意义的。如果这样做,您将始终在曲线后面。这就是为什么我们与客户进行持续对话;寻找机会超出他们的期望并破坏市场。”

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UX Miro董事会

Ideas factory

新产品的想法被带到涉及来自几个不同部门的员工的多学科研讨会上。索利(Sauli)强调了这一点的重要性,“我们需要考虑产品旅程中的每个客户接触点,这不仅仅意味着其操作;这也意味着制造,包装,运输,组装,配置,维护,校准,处置或回收。产品旅程的每个步骤都被绘制出来,以便设计团队可以预测并防止潜在问题。

“我们还需要找到那些隐藏的改进机会。例如,如果客户当前在设定的一段时间内完成了两个人的任务,那么设计团队的目标可能是使一个人能够在一小部分时间内完成。”

在整个设计过程中,团队将继续询问该产品是否正在解决真正的客户问题,并且仍然感觉像Vaisala产品。如果一个想法通过了这些测试,则创建草图和模型以供概念的早期验证。

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靛蓝设计

Mock-ups are assessed against how effectively they solve a customer’s problem; how widely the solution would be adopted; how pleasant the user experience would be; how it would be assembled or configured; how accuracy and reliability can be assured, and how good the product will look and feel. All of these evaluations address the perspective of the user, but it is also necessary to ensure that the product fulfils the needs and expectations of the customer, which may include considerations such as service requirements, longevity, price, lifetime cost, materials and lead times.

索利评论说:“想法产生和评估的早期阶段非常有趣。”“但是,一旦候选产品通过概念评估阶段,事情就会迅速变得严重。”

“我们将我们的规格视为绩效承诺”

除评估外,还对所有产品进行了测试,以检查其在所有潜在条件下的可靠性,耐用性,稳定性和准确性,这意味着必须超出客户的期望测试产品。索利说:“我们将规格视为绩效承诺,因此我们严格而反复地测试我们的设计,以确保我们能够实现这一诺言。”

Designing smart Indigo family

Vaisala Indigo的工业测量工具家族近年来由于具beplay充值的钱可以有共同目标的一系列产品开发计划而发展。每个都解决了特定的客户问题。Indigo是Vaisala Ideas Factory加入思考的一个很好的例子。在早期,团队意识到,如果可以将各种产品作为模块化家庭协调,他们将同时解决许多重要的客户挑战。

开发工作的总体目的是使数据的持续流动。避免流程降低时间,并改善数据可视化。遵循广泛的开发计划,现在可以通过模块化靛蓝家族内的技术来测量Vaisala的所有关键参数,并定期将新产品添加到该系列中。

The Indigo range includes intelligent, interchangeable, standalone measurement probes and optional transmitters; all of which are configurable by Vaisala Insight PC Software. The Indigo compatible probes measure key parameters such as humidity, temperature, pressure, dew point, CO2, H2O2 or moisture in oil. Importantly, each of the smart probes can operate as a standalone device, which provides portability advantages for customers. A key advantage is that processes can operate continuously, because each of the probes can be hot-swapped with another.

概括

Vaisala’s design philosophy can be summarized in three words: insightful, complete and pure. Insightful development programs are grounded in a deep understanding of customer needs, combined with a determination to find innovative solutions. The solutions must be complete, in that they may involve both software and hardware, working harmoniously to exploit the latest technologies to both satisfy and excite prospective users. Last but not least, the new product must be pure – this means it must be credible and recognisable as a Vaisala product. Furthermore, it must be designed for an actual customer need, setting the highest standards in the market with essential features such as accuracy and reliability in the long term.

最后,当然,在Vaisala Ideas Factory中,没有任何gi头,因为没有理由没有设计。

Sauli Laitinen

Sauli Laitinen

设计头

Vaisala

Sauli Laitinen是一名心理学家,专门从事以用户为中心的产品和服务设计。他与Vaisala设计团队一起支持该公司确定新的机会,并在设计思维和设计师的工具包中将其转变为领先的产品和服务。