We, as the Designer Interviews ("DI") had the distinct pleasure and opportunity to interview award-winning, most creative and innovative OPPO Industrial Design Team ("OIDT").
The OPPO Industrial Design Team are focused on designing desirable and engaging products, bringing meaningful human-centred innovations that enrich and improve our user's lives. OPPO is a global pioneer in innovative technology: guided by aesthetics, driven by technology, and committed to creating cutting-edge devices and services that empower and inspire people in an intelligently connected future. At OPPO, technology is an art form. Formed in 2004, we began not with a product but with a philosophy to create exquisite products that enrich lives and spread happiness. From the very beginning our founder made it OPPO’s goal to pursue the ultimate product through a combination of advanced technology and elevated aesthetics. Following our beginnings in China and steady growth in Asia, we have become a global leading brand. Today we have brand presence in over 40 countries: we have set up 6 research divisions and 4 R&D centres. OPPO has also established a global design center in London. Together, over 40,000 OPPO employees join their efforts to create better future for users everywhere.
OPPO Industrial Design Team Designs
We are pleased to share with you original and innovative design work by OPPO Industrial Design Team.
OPPO Industrial Design Team Design - Oppo Enco W31 True Wireless Headphones
OPPO Industrial Design Team Design - Oppo Enco M31 Wireless Headphones
OPPO Industrial Design Team Design - Oppo Enco Q1 Wireless Headphones
Designer Interview of OPPO Industrial Design Team:
DI: Can you tell us more about your company / design studio?
OIDT : Designers at Oppo are focused on designing desirable and engaging products and user experiences that are meaningful to people. Through our Empathic Design Process, we are always keeping our users in mind in every single design decision we make in the design process, creating value for our users through harmonious integration of functionality and aesthetics, as well as meaningful experiences that enrich people's lives.
DI: What is "design" for you?
OIDT : By understanding people’s underlying needs and desires, we strive to deliver compelling innovations that create value for people through our constant pursue of perfection in our design, care for quality, craftsmanship and uniqueness in every single detail.
DI: What makes a design successful?
OIDT : The design is driven by the needs of the user and changes the way people interact with the design in the way it improve people’s lives. Clear insights into unmet user needs including emotional needs and interpret those insights into a brilliant solution that fulfills all those needs.
DI: How would you describe your design style? What made you explore more this style and what are the main characteristics of your style? What's your approach to design?
OIDT : Just as the natural world has an order, a rhythm, and a symmetry that creates balance and beauty, harmony is at the heart of our aesthetic philosophy.
DI: What skills are most important for a designer?
OIDT : Empathy and Execution. For empathy, the ability to identify and understand other people's emotions, caring about other people’s life, uncover insights and translate them into relevant solutions and experiences for people. Without execution, great and powerful ideas are mere imagination unless realized. By taking more of a hands on approach, putting what we see, hear and learn to problem solving, putting in a tremendous amount of craftsmanship to realize a great idea into a great product.
DI: Do you work as a team, or do you develop your designs yourself?
OIDT : In Oppo, we believe in teamwork and co-creation. Designers are an important and vital part of creating well-crafted products and solutions together with product managers and research and technology teams.