前言

有幸以学员、分享者、实习生的身份体验并参与到这家公司的的服务流程中。从最开始对这家公司一无所知，到听朋友推荐这家公司，到目前与这家公司的员工共事，走过了比较典型的几个阶段。这样几个角色给了我相对全面的角度评价这个公司。
但在思考和评价时难免受到利益相关的影响，不一定能够做到足够客观，如果同学们发现有不实或者需要完善的地方欢迎指出。

实际体验

因为申请节奏很紧，我是在开始写文书的前十天左右才知道这家公司。在那时，一起申请的小伙伴相比我对这个公司有更多关注。“这家公司的风格看上去不一样，你可以感受一下他们的官网”，同为 IT 爱好者的他是这么介绍给我的，“你可以关注他们的微信公众号，里面经常有各种微信讲座”。从一开始我就决定选择 DIY 为主的申请策略，所以当时已经确定只在文书这唯一一个无法独立完成的环节使用留学中介服务。当时的备选项还有身边同学（我 GAP 一年所以他们已经申请结束）使用过的文书服务、校内学长学姐组织的文书服务团队以及传统的留学中介公司（某道，某通，某傻，某德等等）；当时直接否定了传统留学服务，一方面是在准备 GT 过程中长期收到来自他们的各类电话、短信骚扰，聊天内容大多是无脑的寒暄、机械的背景分析或是某某某成功案例，感受不到任何诚意。另一方面让人产生反感的是这类公司在推荐服务时几乎不会推荐单独的文书服务，只要发现你离申请截止还有一段时间就开始极力推荐整套服务，我个人对这种行为有强烈的反感。排除这些服务提供商之后我又搜集了身边人的口碑传播的服务商，排除一些评价都不够全面的文书服务（一部分原因是他们的背景中文书比重较低，另一部分原因是服务本身原因），剩下包括棕榈在内的三家服务提供商。

I have always been thinking about a efficient design for people to read news.

For one thing, excessive information has been one of the most wide-spread and significant problem people are faced with.

For the other, I am a person who care much about efficiency. With a limited amount time, we can not extend the whole length of our time but to make the best use of useful time.

What’s more, reading is an important habit in my daily life. (Although it was always sacrificed for other insignificant things)

Get back to the point.

What should a efficient-reading app looks like?

In my opinion, there are two important rules/goals for us to follow when we are designing such a application.

• Efficient information organization. (For instance, important/highly-used information should be displayed in high priority)
• Abundant, clear, fast user interactions. (For instance, a key should appear when and only when I am in front of a door)

Here is my solution for one simple case: news reading.
This app was originally designed for a RSS reading application, while I did not have enough time to finish the development. But I think some ideas behind this design is important and inspiring for design in other application.

Overview

This app is made up of only two main pages: article list page and article content page (I also call it “article consumption page”)

It has been a long time since I publish my last post. Since the Chinese new year, I have explored a lot of fun in life.

The most important thing: I found myself a cooking talent!

Last month, my trial in western dishes was pretty successful (although these dishes are quite basic). This time, I experimented some dishes with more skills, such as the control of temperature, degree of salt, and the use of pot (rolling and shifting).

Here are some outcomes:

Baked potatoes (with cheese)

Cheese can be cooked with anything!
A old Chinese saying: Cheese is Power

Late in night, good time for most people to rest. While it’s prefect time for me to unleash my energy.

Here are some recent dishes I cooked.

Crispy strawberry

Mobile In My Opinion

I am particularly interested in mobile industry. On a broad side, “mobile industry” include not only mobile phones but also wearable devices such as Google glasses/Holo Lens and VR devices. I care not only about current problems facing the industry such as energy consumption, excessive information overload, but also the future development of this industry: The ultimate form of mobile, I think, is a wearable “Personal Assistant”, an adaptable, open platform which could help people handle daily tasks and information. We are not talking about imagination or scenes in some movies, but an appropriate deduction from current trends, and there have been some trials towards this direction:

Preface

A book about how to build companies that create new things

The challenge of the future

Critical question: what important truth do very few people agree with you?

The Roseto Mystery (Introduction)

Same condition or even worse condition than other groups, while they had lower heart disease rate.

Not physical factors such as exercise, gene, location
But social group habit

Opportunity (some prerequisite knowledge)

1.The Matthew Effect:

Project Brief

• Description: Android based tower defense game, self-developed game engine
• Platform: Android
• Attribution: over 10,000 lines code, First Prize in Campus Mobile Application Competition, Complete engine with drawing management, touch event management, collision detection, resource management systems
• Relating Techniques: Java, Android View hierarchy structure, DFS(Depth First Search) algorithm, LRU(Least Recent Used) Resource Caching Algorithm
• Duration: 2012.8 - 2012.10
• Team member: Hongkun Leng(Developer), Bin Fan(Product Designer)