I'm Ruotong Shen. Check out my CV
This portfolio showcases my design projects and thinkings from 2022 to 2024. As a product designer, I understand my work as helping users achieve their goals smoothly and happily through simple processes and appropriate visual styles. I would brainstorm possibilities of product form from three perspectives: product values, interaction and visual.
In the current era of AI, The Human-machine interaction has welcomed a big opportunity to get reshaped, in order to achieve better user experience as well as the rise of working efficiency. I'm looking forward to working on this kind of products.
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Welcome to Ruotong's Portfolio
Taitopia
the Online Render Engine for Next-gen Industrial Design
Over the past two years, I've been working on the Taitopia Renderer.
In the industrial product renderer 'Taitopia', industrial designers can apply material and textures to their model, set scenes, and adjust camera for shooting, ultimately rendering and exporting product effect images or videos.
To try Taitopia (free)：https://taitopia.design/
I worked on all the design projects of Taitopia including systematic framework of Workspace, intricate editing functions, and visual optimization. From the standpoint of a product designer, I categorize them into the following types by which I accumulate design regularities and knowledge for future projects.
Design for Management
Taitopia is but not only a renderer. It also provides workspace for designers to manage their project files and assets personally or within team. Taitopia tried to help designers translate their workflow onto cloud, since the heaviness of 3D files and the lack of local storage have always been a big concern for industrial designers.
Design for Operation
"Complex Operation" refers to the long-curved comprehensive content editing that users perform. Such functionality is commonly found in tool-type products, such as Powerpoint, Photoshop, Figma, etc. "Taitopia" includes a large number of operation designs, and the smoothness of these operations' interactions is the crucial part of the overall experience of Taitopia.
Design for
Browsing
"Browsing functions" primarily focused on presenting information and multimedia content. Examples include news, social media, reading, and shopping websites. After browsing and retrieving information, users are likely to proceed to deal with the contents they get, such as sharing or commenting.
Notification
Notifications could be feedbacks on user actions, warnings about imminent errors, or indications of abnormal operation. Every page has the potential for errors, although they may be rare occurrences, they can significantly impact the user experience when they do occur. Well-designed error notifications can help mitigate this impact slightly.
As product designers, there's often a significant gap between what we hope users do and what they're willing or likely to do. This calls for appropriate guidance design to direct and suggest users. Guiding designs include "new user guides" and "upgrade/payment guides." The timing of these guides is crucial, as well as the UX writings. They shouldn't excessively interrupt users or make them feel manipulated.
Guidance
Visual
Aesthetics are an important aspect of the user experience. Aesthetic preferences vary from person to person; some may prefer dark-themed interfaces, while others may prefer clean and bright ones. Whether a product chooses a conservative and practical visual style or pursues a more stimulating appearance depends on a combination of the product's goals and the user profile.
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User Research
Taitopia team has a product consultant mechanism in place. We regularly engage with over a dozen professional industrial designers from both domestic and international backgrounds to provide feedback on new features and overall user experience. I participate in remote user feedback interviews or review feedback documents. Apart from optimizing identified product flaws, the main focus is to understand users, feel their pain points and interests. These insights play a crucial guiding role in daily design decisions.
I have been involved in design research such as 'Focus Interviews' and 'Product Usability Testing' in Taitopia project. I completed tasks including interview process design, participants recruitment questionnaire design, interview hosting, experience feedback evaluation, and report compilation.