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曾经有一位设计师更关心AB C的间距，而不是AB C的含义。 (Once there was a designer who cared more about the spacing of A B C’s than the meaning of A B C’s.)

Imagine yourself in a room full of people who don’t look like you or speak like you, and you are dying inside because you have all these ideas in your head that you want to share.

想象一下，自己在一个房间里到处都是看起来不像你或说话不像你的人，而你却快要死了，因为所有这些想法都想分享。

You build up your courage to say something and you get “Can you repeat that?”, “What did you say?”, or, “Ok, let’s move on”. You feel yourself crumble into a tiny piece of shit and you carry on through the rest of the meeting with your “calm” and “nice” composure.

您鼓起勇气说些什么，然后得到“您可以重复一遍吗？”，“您说了什么？”或“好吧，让我们继续前进”。 您会感觉自己崩溃了，只剩下一小块狗屎，然后在整个会议的剩余时间里保持冷静和镇静。

As a designer with English as my second language, I used to experience this a lot (and also often have nightmares about this). I also often hear from my fellow ESL designer friends that this happens to them all the time. I hear things like: “My English is not good enough for me to get that raise”, “I don’t think I can become a leader because my English is not perfect”, “I’ll just stay at this level because I am not good at English”.

作为以英语为第二语言的设计师，我曾经经历过很多(也常常对此感到恶梦)。 我还经常从我的ESL设计师朋友那里听到，这种情况一直在发生。 我听到这样的话：“我的英语不足以使我加薪”，“我不认为自己会因为我的英语不完美而成为领导者”，“我会一直保持这个水平，因为我英文不好。”

Yes. English is important for us to learn and practice because as designers, the most influential thing is to communicate well. Communication by far is the #1 thing that I feel that is required when you want to work well and be successful with others.

是。 英语对于我们的学习和实践很重要，因为作为设计师，最有影响力的事情就是沟通良好。 我认为，到目前为止，沟通是第一件事，当您想要良好地工作并与他人成功时，这是必需的。

However, English is not the only tool that we have when we want to communicate. What is Google’s definition of communication?

但是，英语并不是我们想要交流的唯一工具。 Google对通讯的定义是什么？

Nowhere in here does it say “language” (or English)! There are some familiar words that I see that we do all the time as designers: conveying, reporting, presenting, spreading, broadcasting, circulation.

这里没有地方说“语言”(或英语)！ 我经常看到一些设计师经常听到的词语：传达，报告，展示，传播，广播，发行。

You don’t need perfect A B C’s to do any of these things. In fact, as designers, we have so many other skills that we can use to do this right.

您不需要完美的AB C来完成任何这些事情。 实际上，作为设计师，我们还有许多其他技能可以用来完成这项工作。

使用您的绘画技巧。 (Use your drawing skill.)

OK. I am not talking about taking out your sketch book and drawing with your 2B pencil. I am talking about our skill to quickly digest information and draw a simple chart and flow that everyone can understand and discuss.

好。 我并不是说要拿出素描本并用2B铅笔绘图。 我说的是我们快速掌握信息的技巧，并绘制出每个人都可以理解和讨论的简单图表和流程。

hieroglyphics. It is a very 象形文字 。 这是一种非常 old form of writing that they starting using as early as 3000 B.C. 古老的书写形式，他们早在公元前3000年就开始使用 Hieroglyphics was a very complicated way of writing involving 1000s of symbols. 象形文字，这是一种涉及1000多个符号的非常复杂的书写方式。

This is how people communicated back when there was no language. They drew some icons and used them to tell stories. Sound familiar? That’s what we do as designers. We use graphic elements and use them to tell stories, user journeys and flows.

这是人们在没有语言的情况下进行交流的方式。 他们画了一些图标，并用它们来讲述故事。 听起来有点熟？ 这就是我们作为设计师所做的。 我们使用图形元素，并使用它们来讲述故事，用户历程和流程。

Once I was so impressed by a designer I was interviewing. He led all of his communication by drawing charts on the whiteboard. I had never felt such a clear strategy and responses from an interviewee in my life. I asked him, “Where did you learn how to communicate this way? I have never experienced this before”. He said he had to teach himself to communicate through charts and graphs because he felt that his English skill wasn’t strong enough and often felt that he couldn’t communicate his thoughts to his teammates. He said he had to teach himself quickly an alternate ways to speak his mind that would be faster than learning English.

设计师给我留下深刻的印象后，我便开始接受采访。 他通过在白板上绘制图表来领导所有沟通。 我一生中从未经历过如此清晰的策略和受访者的回应。 我问他：“您在哪里学习如何进行这种交流？ 我以前从未经历过”。 他说他必须自学通过图表与图表进行交流，因为他觉得自己的英语能力不够强，并且经常觉得他无法与队友交流思想。 他说，他必须快速地自学成语，这比学习英语要快得多。

As designers, drawing can come so much easier than anything else that we do. Strengthen and use this skillset as it will come very handy as your communication tool.

作为设计师，绘图比我们做的其他任何事情都容易得多。 加强和使用此技能组，因为它非常方便用作您的交流工具。

让用户为您说话。 (Let the users speak for you.)

As designers, we are the closest to our users. We know what their pain points are, why they love the product, what they wish would be improved, and luckily, they probably know how to speak English better than us.

作为设计师，我们最接近我们的用户。 我们知道他们的痛点是什么，为什么他们会喜欢这种产品，他们希望得到什么改善，所以幸运的是，他们可能会比我们说英语更好。

When you are presenting your solutions, clearly re-state the Objective that you have set as a team, and explain why this is important and how you got to this solution by borrowing or quoting the users’ voice. If you have like feedback from multiple users, let the team know that. You are speaking for the users, so your English skillset…doesn’t really matter at this point.

在介绍解决方案时，请清楚地重新陈述已设定为团队的目标，并通过借用或引用用户的声音来解释为什么这很重要，以及如何获得此解决方案。 如果您希望得到多个用户的反馈，请让团队知道。 您是在为用户说话，因此您的英语技能……在这一点上并不重要。

This is why I love user testing as a designer. Whether it’s quick interview sessions with your users over the phone, or a grand research project with 3000 users across the board, you as a designer have first dibs into what they are saying.

这就是为什么我喜欢以设计师身份进行用户测试的原因。 无论是通过电话与用户进行快速面谈，还是拥有3000名用户的大型研究项目，作为设计师，您首先要了解他们在说什么。

You are the bridge between everyone in the cross functional team and your users. It’s pretty much the coolest job that anyone can ask for.

您是跨职能团队中的每个人和用户之间的桥梁。 这几乎是任何人都可以要求的最酷的工作。

借用您的竞争对手的语言。 (Borrow your competitors language.)

Competitive landscape is not usually my first go-to-method. I really like to push my designers and myself to come up with a solution that solves the problem on your own first before you limit yourself by looking at what the others are doing.

竞争格局通常不是我的第一个方法。 我真的很想推动我的设计师和我自己想出一种解决方案，该解决方案可以先解决自己的问题，然后再看看其他人在做什么，从而限制自己。

I believe as soon as you compare your ideas with what someone else is doing, your creative limit is contained in a box of what others have set.

我相信，只要您将自己的想法与他人的所作所为进行比较，您的创意极限就会包含在他人设定的框中。

Think about the problem you are solving and brainstorm! You don’t have to brainstorm in English. You can brainstorm in any language you are comfortable with.

想想您正在解决的问题并集思广益！ 您不必用英语进行头脑风暴。 您可以使用自己喜欢的任何语言进行头脑风暴。

It’s honestly the most fun part of my job because you can never tell what’s in that brain of yours. Once you’ve done that, and you have a couple of good solutions of your own, then you can look at the competition.

老实说，这是我工作中最有趣的部分，因为您永远无法说出大脑中的内容。 完成此操作后，您便拥有了一些不错的解决方案，然后就可以看看竞争对手了。

Competitors’ design can become a great talking point for your team. It can also easily become the safe design option that you can test against the brilliant ideas you just came up with. I often create a prototype that mimics the biggest competitor’s app and listen to users’ feedback on it. It’s a great way to find out if your competitor did any user testing on what they did.

竞争对手的设计可以成为您团队的重要话题。 它也可以很容易地成为安全的设计选项，您可以针对刚想到的出色创意进行测试。 我经常创建一个模仿最大竞争对手的应用程序的原型，并听取用户对此的反馈。 这是找出竞争对手是否对他们的行为进行了任何用户测试的好方法。

去做你最擅长的事。 (Go do what you do best.)

“Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems.” — Tim Brown, CEO and president of IDEO

“创新的地方，创新的方式和创新都是设计问题。” — IDEO首席执行官兼总裁Tim Brown

Don’t let English define who you are. You are not here to be the best English speaker. You are here to be the best designer (who you already are).

不要让英语来定义你是谁。 您并不是这里的最佳英语讲者。 您是这里最好的设计师(您已经是谁)。

Your accent? It gives you character. It took me about 3 years to clearly pronounce “Sword” differently from “Swordfish” (on a bad day I still have hard time saying them). But who cares, own it and laugh with your friends, give everyone a break they deserve.

你的口音？ 它给你个性。 我花了大约3年的时间才清楚地将“ Sword”和“ Swordfish”区别开来(在糟糕的日子里，我仍然很难说出来)。 但是谁在乎，拥有它并与您的朋友大笑，让每个人都应有的休息时间。

We live in a world where everyone has different languages they speak. Engineering, Product Management, VC/Entrepreneurs has their own language. Art is its’ own language. Describing the taste of wine is its’ own language. Everything is made out of different languages that we learn to speak and use to communicate.

我们生活在一个每个人都有不同语言的世界。 工程，产品管理，风险投资/企业家都有自己的语言。 艺术是它自己的语言。 描述葡萄酒的味道是它自己的语言。 一切都由我们学会说和用于交流的不同语言组成。

As designers, we choose to learn Design as our second language, and I believe Design is a language that’s makes a huge impact in this world.

作为设计师，我们选择将设计作为第二语言来学习，我相信设计是一门在世界上产生巨大影响的语言。

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” — Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, Inc.

“设计不仅是外观和感觉。 设计就是它的工作方式。” —苹果公司联合创始人史蒂夫·乔布斯(Steve Jobs)

Fellow designers who look different from everyone else in the room and have special accents, keep your head up high. You are certainly an integral part of the team. You are celebrated for what you do best — Designing! Solving problems!

研究员与房间中的每个人看起来都不同并且具有特殊的口音，请保持高昂的头脑。 您当然是团队不可或缺的一部分。 以您最擅长的设计而闻名-设计！ 解决问题！

You are not the only one who is on the boat of “constantly learning something new”. All the smart people are on this boat with you. Do not let this small part of you define who you are. You are an amazing designer. Go do what you do best.

您不是唯一一个“不断学习新知识”的人。 所有聪明的人都和你一起在这艘船上。 不要让这小部分人定义自己。 您是一位了不起的设计师。 去做你最擅长的事。

翻译自: https://blog.prototypr.io/you-are-an-amazing-designer-dont-let-your-english-stop-you-bde3a1b31b49

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