Tencent WeChat Design Center, handling design and UX research for WeChat products.
The article traces the cursor’s half‑century history—from Engelbart’s 1968 demo and Xerox PARC’s 16×16 bitmap to modern AI‑enhanced pointers—showing how it transformed into a visual language, adapted to touch devices, and now serves as a collaborative interface between users and intelligent agents.
As AI pushes decision‑making to millisecond speeds, products that are too fast can erode user trust, so designers must deliberately introduce strategic friction—slowing interactions where impact is high or reversibility low—to align system latency with human confidence.
The article argues that a series of design decisions—from early internet’s spatial metaphors to smartphone‑driven endless feeds, blank‑canvas platforms, and Twitter’s character limits—have transformed digital products into environments that encourage shallow, fragmented cognition, and it calls on designers to rethink these choices to foster deeper thought.
AI image generators produce a statistically averaged “average face” that looks attractive but lacks individuality, a phenomenon traced back to Galton’s 19th‑century composite portraits; the article explains the technical cause, psychological research, practical pros and cons, and how to steer models toward more distinctive, less uncanny results.
The article examines how AI can quickly decompose requirements but stresses that designers must distinguish facts from assumptions, organize judgment criteria, and make AI's analysis traceable and continuously verifiable to avoid misleading conclusions.
The article examines how to regulate AI's visibility in products by applying a tiered interaction model, defining clear boundaries, and dynamically adjusting response intensity based on user intent and confidence, illustrated with real‑world examples such as Microsoft’s Clippy and data‑dashboard scenarios.
This article explains the core concepts of A/B testing, including significance, p‑values, minimum sample size, experiment duration, common interpretation pitfalls, and practical e‑commerce conversion tips, helping designers and product teams make data‑driven decisions without falling into statistical traps.
The article explains five cognitive patterns that drive procrastination, examines why they arise from evolutionary psychology, and offers concrete product‑design tactics—such as progress bars, timeboxing, social accountability, and gamified narratives—to help users overcome each trigger.
This article explains why timely, clear, and appropriate feedback is essential for user interfaces, outlines a systematic process for identifying feedback nodes, classifying feedback types, and designing feedback expressions, and illustrates the approach with real‑world case studies from an AI voice‑cloning project.
This article explores how cultural variations influence visual and interaction design, using Hofstede’s six cultural dimensions and real-world examples—from movie posters to university websites and apps—to illustrate how power distance, individualism, achievement orientation, uncertainty avoidance, long‑term orientation, and indulgence affect user experience across regions.
