Real Man

Chapter 133:

Chapter 133

Tap tap.

She neatly arranged the folded printouts and handed them out to the people.

“Ah, since our new member is here, let’s try an assignment today.”

“Thank you.”

Yoo-hyun looked at the paper she gave him.

Then he froze for a moment.

“…”

It was filled with information on industrial design theory.

And most of it was in English.

Senior Jang Hye-min spoke in a cheerful voice.

“Today I prepared an industrial design edition. I thought it would be directly helpful for us since we are the ones who make cell phones. It may look difficult, but it’s not that hard.”

“It looks pretty hard to me?”

It was impossible to be easy.

“No, it’s not. It may be boring because it’s theory, but if you can remember a little bit of it, designing will be much easier. I’ll help you.”

“…”

There was no one here who could remember this.

They were all engineers who knew nothing about art.

As expected, the others’ expressions were not good.

That’s right!

Senior Jang Hye-min had no talent for teaching at people’s level.

She was even more clumsy in this aspect than Yoo-hyun remembered from the future.

And that was supposed to be improved!

‘That’s why the art club atmosphere is so bleak.’

Yoo-hyun accurately grasped the situation.

He sighed inwardly and raised his hand.

“President, can I ask you a question?”

“Ooh, questions are good. Not one, but two are fine. Ask me anything.”

Senior Jang Hye-min sparkled her eyes.

She seemed determined to answer anything.

“When you say design, you mean mainly the exterior of the cell phone, right? Can we also consider the interior screen as design?”

“Of course. Absolutely. I think the interior design is more important. Even if it’s the same cell phone, depending on how you make the UI, the user can have a completely different experience.”

“I’m actually worried about that part.”

“What is it?”

Yoo-hyun placed the box he had put on the floor on the table.

Naturally, people’s eyes were drawn to the box.

“I made an LCD panel mockup, and I wanted to decorate the interior design well. But I don’t know if it meets the standards of experts.”

“Let me see what you brought.”

Yoo-hyun placed the mockups divided by color on the table.

When he pressed a button, a screen that matched well with the color appeared.

It was a mockup with a stainless steel exterior, a large full-touch screen, and a thin body.

Since it was made using only the minimum components necessary for driving and touching the screen and a small battery that goes into Semi Electronics MP3, it was a possible design.

The exterior of this mockup, which was made by Semi Electronics personnel under Lee Chan-ho’s leadership, was of high quality even in Yoo-hyun’s eyes.

Of course, it was enough to impress a designer.

Just like Laura Parker did in the past.

Not only senior Jang Hye-min, but also others had curious eyes.

“Wow, this is awesome. Oh, you reduced the battery a lot.”

“Yes. That’s right.”

“No wonder. But you made it thin well. It has all the necessary functions.”

“Look at the stainless steel work. This can’t be mass-produced with current technology, right? Did you do it by hand?”

Senior Jang Hye-min responded to her words quickly.

“That’s right. How did you know at a glance?”

“That’s my job, what do you mean? Hoho.”

The engineers in each field did not care about understanding each other and commented on the product.

From their perspective, studying industrial design theory was much more fun than this.

But senior Jang Hye-min, who didn’t know that fact, looked very touched.

The communication she wanted in the art club was unfolding before her eyes.

Senior Jang Hye-min picked up the mockup with curious eyes.

“The exterior is very neat. It looks like something our team would make with great effort. You said you were worried about the interior design? What?”

“Yes. That’s right.”

As soon as she touched the screen, her eyes widened.

“This is… Did you match the tone of the interior screen with the exterior color? Even the icons? It seems like you designed everything in detail according to the character concept as well…”

“How did you know?”

“Hold on a second.”

Then she incredulously picked up another phone with a different color.

It was clearly the same phone, but it gave a completely different feeling with just the interior design.

“…”

Senior Jang Hye-min focused for a moment without saying anything.

From her perspective as someone who had handled many phones, full-touch phones were not that amazing.

There was Channel Phone that came out last year, and Apple Phone that was released this year.

The PDA concept phone she was holding now was also nothing new.

But what surprised her was the uniqueness of the interior design of a single mockup that stimulated the part where she was stuck.

Yoo-hyun knew that the interior design he made through Han Jae-hee would capture senior Jang Hye-min’s heart even if others didn’t know.

-Do you know what I regret the most? That I made the design that became the basis of smartphone UX, but I couldn’t apply it properly because I fought with the engineers.

How did she feel now?

Wouldn’t she feel like the design she had always worried about was right in front of her?

It didn’t matter whether it was clumsy or not.

What mattered was the concept that she always talked about.

“The details are really well taken care of. Especially, making the icons transparent and harmonizing them with the background color is excellent. Which company did you do this with?”

“My younger sister did it.”

“Wow… Your sister is amazing. She has some rough parts, but she captured the concept well. How much experience does she have to make this?”

“She’s a college student now.”

“What? A college student? That’s amazing. But why are you worried about this design? It looks like you can make it into a product right away.”

In a strangely focused atmosphere, Yoo-hyun calmly told her about the problem he faced.

“That’s actually…”

“Hmm.”

“…So I wanted to get some help.”

“Does that make sense?”

“It’s reality.”

Senior Jang Hye-min, who had been listening quietly, flared up.

“That’s too much. Are they discriminating us because we’re from the LCD division?”

“I heard that the contest winners are already decided by the higher-ups. They’re focusing on the team leader-level ideas that they want to groom as executives.”

“Is that why? To me, this looks like it can easily make a schedule.”

Was it thanks to Yoo-hyun’s popularity?

The people next to him added fuel to the fire.

“Honestly, I love it. As you said, if the price of full-touch phones drops like that, our company can push it as the next-generation product without any problem.”

Senior Jang Hye-min agreed vehemently and jumped up from her seat.

Her fast heartbeat and rough breathing showed her sudden emotional change.

She was very excited right now.

“Yoo-hyun, can I borrow this mockup?”

“Yes. Of course.”

“I’ll review it and propose it on our side. We can’t let them trample on a good idea with such logic of power.”

She was genuinely angry.

There was nothing revealed yet, and Yoo-hyun himself didn’t even mention that he was discriminated against.

But she had already made up her mind.

‘She still has a hot temper.’

It was a bit more intense than Yoo-hyun expected.

She was a person who would rush into anything she thought was right without regard for anything.

She was infinitely weak to the words of the lower people, but she hated the abuse of power by the upper people so much that she would cause a stir.

She didn’t care if they were executives or not, she was the one who would confront the business director if there was a problem.

She was a person who could do that.

No, she was a person who was allowed to do that.

She was the niece of Shin Hyun-ho, the chairman of Hanseong Group, or more precisely, the daughter of his ex-wife’s sister whom he cherished.

She was just hiding her status because she wanted to live a normal social life in her own way.

Who would think that she was a member of the Hanseong Group family by looking at her?

Yoo-hyun didn’t know her identity until much later.

Was it because of the old acquaintance he met after a long time?

The times he spent with her in the past passed through his head like a slide show.

-Do you know why I hid it? It’s not direct, and there are people who don’t like me. Well, more than that, I wanted to live a normal social life. Don’t we all have such a dream?

He didn’t know where she got such a dream, but she had a complex of being nice that didn’t suit her status.

-Honestly, I don’t like what Han team leader did. But your words are also true that I suffered more damage by pretending to be nice. So, I’ll let this one go.

So there were many conflicts. They had different directions from the beginning.

-Did you see the review of our product? It’s awesome, right? This is why I design. Well, Han team leader did a good job of summarizing it, so I’ll give him credit for that.

But she had skills that didn’t match her prejudice as a royal family.

At least in terms of direction and insight, he couldn’t criticize her.

She remained in Yoo-hyun’s memory as a useful colleague.

-Han team leader is lucky. He can work with someone like our senior Jung Da-hye.

There was someone she cherished.

It was senior Jung Da-hye who worked with Yoo-hyun in the group strategy room at that time.

She liked senior Jung Da-hye who was called Jeanne d’Arc for being strong-willed and thought she resembled herself.

He suddenly wondered again.

Jung Da-hye.

Was she doing well?

At that moment.

Jung Da-bin, who took a vacation, stopped by her home for the first time in a long time.

Her mother welcomed her.

“What’s up? You’re all home?”

“Is that what you say to your daughter? Is there anything to eat?”

“Geez, yes.”

They looked like friends as they talked.

It was just like her cheerful personality.

Jung Da-bin sat on a dining chair and ate some fruit and asked.

“Mom, you know Da-hye.”

“Jung Da-hye? Your cousin? The pretty one?”

“Mom always adds unnecessary words. I’m prettier.”

“Whatever, but why Da-hye?”

“Just. I suddenly thought of her. I wonder if she’s doing well.”

Jung Da-bin lived in the same neighborhood as Jung Da-hye when they were young.

They were friends because they were the same age.

-This is my signature. I made it with a half-heart mark for the many (多) character, but you can use it if you want. We use the same character, right?

Around that time, she made a signature for him when they were playing at home.

The signature with a cupid arrow was so cute that he remembered it.

But he saw that signature on the sea of Geoje Island a while ago.

It was the heart that Yoo-hyunF drew on the ground.

It was too similar to be a coincidence in terms of the detailed shape.