Design Insights
A record of my thoughts on product design. Such as how to understand user needs, plan product direction, and use data to optimize products. The content may be basic, but these are things I find important in my work.
The Reality and Future of AI Replacing Human Labor
AI is mostly used for basic tasks like content generation and customer service optimization, with companies treating it more as a marketing tool than a real efficiency booster.
Product Restructuring: From Chaos to Ecosystem
This article shares FinClip’s restructuring practice to support digital transformation.
Authentic Leadership: Shattering the Myth of Authority, Building Trust
Leaders should abandon the 'all-knowin' authoritative image and build a culture of trust through four principles: clarifying values, transparent communication, sharing emotions, and practicing honesty.
Breaking the Information Asymmetry in Team Management
This article explores the five dimensions of information asymmetry in team management (basic, professional, capability, motivation, and personality) and proposes strategies to build a transparent management system, helping managers turn information gaps into innovation drivers for the team.
Three Key Challenges to OKR Implementation and Solutions
This article identifies three core challenges in OKR implementation: lack of a supportive organizational culture, conflation of OKR with KPI leading to goal ambiguity, and unclear objective decomposition causing execution failures.
Non-Monetary Motivation: The Long-Term Key to Unlocking Employee Potential
The philosophy of 'igniting intrinsic motivatio' to provide systematic non-monetary solutions for organizational success.
How to Identify High-Potential Product Managers
How to accurately identify high-potential product managers with strategic thinking, user insight, and stress resistance through resume screening, in-depth questioning, and potential assessment.
AI and Human Collaboration: Replacement or Symbiosis?
This article explores the evolution of AI, its capability limits, and its applications in education, art, and the job market. It proposes three key principles for future human-AI collaboration, emphasizing that AI is a “productivity booster” rather than a replacement for humans.
Requirement Customization and Product Optimization
My product manager’s real insights into requirement customization and product optimization, covering hard-learned lessons, common understandings of domestic SaaS companies, and advice for newcomers.
PLG in Plain Language: Let Your Product Sell Itself
The concept of PLG (Product-Led Growth) in simple terms, explores its differences from Product-Market Fit, its evolution, and how to drive growth by letting users experience value on their own.
Opt for Multiplication over Addition
Essence of product improvement lies in optimizing existing features rather than mindlessly adding new ones. By examining the perils of feature bloat, methods to revitalize old features, and user - value - based prioritization rules which explains how to achieve exponential product value through a subtractive approach.
Strategies for Newly Appointed Product Team Leaders to Gain Control
Practical insights for newly parachuted product team leaders, proposing four key strategies: in-depth team research, building trust through problem-solving, establishing adaptive systems, and flexibly adjusting management styles.
Product Designer Competency Framework: From Execution to Innovation
A three-dimensional competency model for product designers—foundational execution, strategic thinking, and breakthrough creativity—supplemented by four lateral dimensions including critical thinking and analytical skills.
The Middle Platform Strategy: The Core Hub of Enterprise Digital Transformation
Analyzes the origin, classification, and practical value of the middle platform strategy, highlighting how business middle platforms enhance responsiveness through componentized services and data middle platforms enable precise decision-making via unified data governance.