Six Principles for Designing Charts

In August 2017, a team of passionate designers, researchers, and engineers at Google created a comprehensive set of data visualization guidelines covering everything from color, shape, typography, icons, interaction, and motion. The success of this collaboration led to the formation of Google’s first full-time data visualization team, which launched in May 2018. Over the past year, …

Talk about product opportunity identification

Recently, I listened to Goddess Liang’s masterpiece, combined with the experience of the product in charge, and shared the product opportunity identification I understand. If there is anything wrong with my personal opinion, please correct me.

Behavioral design conjecture

The purpose of interaction design or product design is to change or influence user behavior by finding, choosing, and creating some routines. From this perspective, product design may be called “behavior design.”

Tired of the hamburger icon, these 4 alternatives may be good

The advantages of the hamburger icon are obvious, it is compact, intuitive, and convenient. Its “defects” are also quite prominent: too familiar and “boring”. I mean, every APP has three horizontal lines at the top of the UI to tell you “I am the menu”. Is there a more interesting and eye-catching alternative? Yes, today we will talk about four good alternatives to the hamburger icon.

The designer’s self-restart

As an interaction designer, I have to participate in certain projects on the one hand, and lead some projects on the other. Regardless of the project, I have been satisfied with my output for a long time. But recently, I feel more and more frequently that the design proposals submitted do not actually represent my highest level. …