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Zhou Hao might not even remember the name of this designer, so he didn't know how much Green had achieved in the field of design in her previous life. But judging from the sketches she casually drew in one night, Zhou Hao felt that she must have achieved a lot.

After Green showed Zhou Hao several design sketches, he asked, "Mr. Zhou, which of these sketches is closer to what you want?"

Zhou Hao thought for a moment and said, "I think the last one I'm still drawing is closer."

"Really?" Green immediately turned to the last page. The sketch on it was just simple lines. Zhou Hao pointed at the upper and lower cross-section sketches she drew, "But here I hope the two sides can be closed a little, into a flat round shape."

Green nodded, quickly erased the cross-section sketch he had drawn earlier with an eraser, and then drew a flat circle again.

Zhou Hao was basically satisfied, "It would be better if it could be a little thinner."

Green said: "It's just a sketch now. You can draw any sketch you want, but I need to refer to the hardware configuration, including what screen, what buttons, what memory, and most importantly, what battery you want to use. If it is a lithium battery, the design is more flexible. If you use ordinary AA batteries or AAA batteries, the design is more limited because the battery is too thick, so..."

Zhou Hao then realized that it was fine for the MP3 to adopt a design similar to that of iPod nano4, but the most critical aspects were the hardware and craftsmanship. If he wanted to use the flat shape of nano4, the biggest problem would be the battery. If he did not use lithium batteries, even with the smallest AAA batteries, that is, No. batteries, the thickness would be greatly affected.

If lithium batteries are used, the thickness problem can be solved, but the cost will be very high. Now is 2002, and the cost of lithium batteries is astonishingly high. A mobile phone battery can easily cost hundreds of yuan. If a mp3 player is equipped with a lithium battery, the cost will be beyond the user's ability to bear.

The purchasing power of domestic users is indeed still relatively weak, so Zhou Hao has to consider the cost. If he really develops an MP3 player like the iPod that costs two or three thousand yuan, his plans will be disrupted.

This also made Zhou Hao realize the one-sidedness of an outsider's consideration of the problem. He had never thought of such an important thing as battery.

Zhou Hao smacked his lips and asked Green: "If ordinary batteries are used, do you have any good design suggestions?"

Green said: "Most MP3 players use ordinary dry batteries, which have disadvantages depending on the overall battery design. However, if a single AAA battery is used, the design is more controllable. I recommend using this power supply method. In this way, using the triangular cross-section design just mentioned, I can make the front as wide as possible and reduce the thickness. Using an isosceles triangle design, I can make the top angle as large as possible, which will make it lighter and thinner, and can also highlight the front of the player more."

Zhou Hao nodded and said, "Try changing it."

Green immediately turned to a new page, picked up a pencil and began to outline.

The front of the fuselage was quickly outlined, and then Green began to outline the cross-section. She first drew an isosceles triangle with a large vertex angle.

Zhou Hao made his own suggestion: "Can the three corners of the cross section be designed as arcs? This will look more natural."

Green tapped the pencil in his hand lightly on the sketchbook, his eyes lit up: "This... is a good idea!"

After that, Green began to process the edges and corners based on the isosceles triangle, making the edges and corners smoother and more natural, similar to the four-arc design of the iPhone 6, and processing the cross-section into a triangular arc, which also improved the overall design sense.

The battery compartment is designed appropriately within the top corner of an equilateral triangle. The protruding arc edge allows the battery to be placed inside, while the narrowing of the two sides gives the illusion of being thinner.

Before he knew it, nearly an hour had passed. More and more lines were drawn by Green's pen, gradually filling up the blank paper. A design sketch like a sketch appeared in front of Zhou Hao, which amazed him.

The overall functional layout of this product is similar to that of the iPod nano, but the difference is that Green has added a lot of her own design elements. Although it is thicker in the middle than the nano due to the battery compartment, the overall look is still very beautiful, much better looking than all the MP3 players of this era.

The design of the battery compartment back cover is relatively traditional. It is a battery cover that is not much larger than a No. 7 battery. At the bottom of the entire back of the player, there is a recessed slot for fixing the battery cover.

Zhou Hao was a little dissatisfied with the design. "Can the entire back be designed as a detachable battery cover?"

Green was a little surprised: "The whole back is one piece? Wouldn't it be too troublesome to disassemble it like that?"

Zhou Hao smiled and said: "If it is to be disassembled as a whole, the buckle method cannot be used. A hidden buckle must be used. In other words, the back cover should be designed in a push-pull mode. Push the buckle to disassemble it, and when it is closed, no trace can be seen."

This design is very novel now, but in the future, almost all remote controls will use this hidden buckle. The biggest advantage of this method is that it is beautiful and integrated.

Although Green had never seen this method before, after listening to Zhou Hao, she immediately understood what Zhou Hao wanted. In more than ten minutes, she drew an overall sketch of the back cover, which looked very good.

This also made Green look at Zhou Hao with admiration. Although he had never studied design, his inspiration for design surpassed many people, and even he himself felt it was very avant-garde.

For the design of the earphones, Zhou Hao requested that they be as simple as possible while ensuring the design sense. Under Zhou Hao's instruction, Green changed the design draft several times, and finally came up with a design similar to the iPhone earphones. Zhou Hao was very satisfied with this version. There was nothing he could do about it, as Apple's industrial design was recognized worldwide in the previous life.

After finalizing the overall design sketch, Lian Green couldn't put it down. She said to Zhou Hao: "Mr. Zhou, in fact, half of this MP3 is your idea. I think the price we set before should be reduced by half."

Zhou Hao said, "These are two different things. Even if part of it is my idea, you are helping me improve it. There is no reason to give me a discount on the fee. Besides, if you cooperate with other companies and they make some requests for you to change according to their needs, would you still give them a discount? This is not your style."

Green said hastily: "That's not what I meant..."

Zhou Hao smiled and said, "That's fine. Although we haven't signed a contract, we have already agreed on the money. You and I must abide by the contract."

Green has a very high talent for design and is very professional, but after all, she has never entered the workplace, so she is somewhat subjective in her attitude towards cooperation. She feels that she has done much less than expected, so she is embarrassed to take more compensation from others. But after Zhou Hao showed the spirit of contract, she no longer insisted, "Mr. Zhou, I will start making renderings and formal design drawings from today. When the formal drawings come out, I will give a standard to the internal hardware such as the screen, motherboard, buttons, and jacks. You can communicate with the foundry and let them design the internal hardware according to the standard."

Zhou Hao nodded, looking forward to the results of the renderings and design drawings. This was related to the future major strategies of Taobao and Wangwa.com. As long as this MP3 player was a great success, Taobao would be able to save at least one year of hard work. If Wangwa.com's official flagship store on Taobao could sell hundreds of thousands of MP3 players within a year, he could launch a b2003c platform similar to "Tmall Mall" in 2, and sell hundreds of thousands of products online. By then, who knows how many companies that were tortured by traditional sales channels and costs would come to him for cooperation.

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Three days later, Zhou Hao got the complete design of the MP3 from Green, including precise design drawings of each component, as well as overall exploded views and renderings.

Zhou Hao asked Green to make a stunning rendering for him. There were nine newly designed MP3 players in the picture. Although the models were the same, the colors of the body shells were different. There were nine colors in total, including red, orange, yellow, green, indigo, purple, silver and black. The display of nine colors at the same time was also imitating the route of nano. On the one hand, it improved the style of the product group, and on the other hand, it was to cater to the aesthetic tastes of more people.

Zhou Hao was very satisfied with Green's design. The rendering was so good that Zhou Hao thought he had jumped five years in an instant.

After making sure that there was no need to modify the design drawings, Green said goodbye to Zhou Hao. She planned to travel around China for a month. Zhou Hao tried to be a good host and take her to play around the capital, but she refused. She longed for the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, so she bought a train ticket from Beijing all the way to the southwest. After Zhou Hao paid her the fees, he asked her to keep the mobile phone he gave her and told her to call him if she needed help in China.