To Be A Product Manager | Week 66

This journal helps me improve 1% every day…

Welcome to Week 66 of

To Be A Product Manager

Although I have complained about the working environment in the previous post, but so far I’m satisfied with my experience at OnePlus. It actually what I expected from the very beginning.

This week I have been more closely with development, design and testing teams. As they said, I will be working on camera/image apps in the first couple months, getting familiar with colleagues, as well as the workflow.

In the past couple weeks, I’ve been working on OnePlus Gallery, some of you may receive updates this week. To be honest, the app is not great, and has a long way to go. I do have a chance to listen to what people really want in their photo app in the PlayStore reviews, yet we also need to prioritize every thing, and work on own pace.

While learning and analyzing the best photo apps in the market, Google Photos and Apple’s Photos, I’ve been thinking a lot about the future of gallery:

What does it look like?

What features should be included?

What type of image or video medium should we support?

And how those cutting edge technologies should be integrated in a gallery app without disturbing the common usage of users?

These are not easy questions to answer, but just as how you will start a company, first you need to have a vision.

You gotta understand who do you want to become.

As an app, you need to answer: what makes you different from the other similar apps in the market?

Following or copying others is always the worst move. But once you have a goal, all those features and bugs fixed are working to make you realize the final goal we mentioned above.

As I said in my monthly review, I found a group of people who are extremely interested playing music and singing, and I will be joining their event this Saturday, as a singer.

They assigned a guitarist to me, and we will be presenting Arms of Woman — Amos Lee Cover. This is one of my favorite songs, but I never found instrumental online or in karoke. So I’m really excited!

My name is Zake Zhang, a product manager based in Shenzhen, China. I write weekly product journal and reflection.

Thanks for reading and let’s keep on hacking!

Warm Regards,

Zake