Tencent WeChat Design Center, handling design and UX research for WeChat products.
This article examines the harmful effects of everyday noise pollution and argues that human‑centered sound design—using spatial reverb, natural tones, and careful auditory cues—can create calmer, more harmonious environments in both consumer products and critical settings like healthcare.
This article explores how to improve notification UX by understanding their dual nature, classifying them by urgency, applying graded design principles, limiting frequency, personalizing delivery, integrating settings into onboarding, and measuring effectiveness with clear metrics to avoid user fatigue.
This article explores how creativity works in designers' brains, outlines the 4C model, compares protocol analysis with neural‑mechanism studies, and presents practical tools and daily habits that can stimulate and sustain innovative thinking in design work.
From ancient Egyptian flat depictions to Renaissance linear perspective, through Impressionist challenges and modern UI design shifts, this article traces the evolution of visual perspective, revealing how artistic and interface conventions have repeatedly broken, refined, and reimagined spatial representation to align with cultural, technological, and perceptual changes.
This article explores accessible voice control technology for people with limited hand mobility, detailing its purpose, core concepts, command structures, screen overlay modes, design guidelines, challenges, and future directions such as natural language and multimodal input, while comparing it with VoiceOver and offering practical design recommendations.
This article explains the Fogg Behavior Model, breaks down its three core elements—motivation, ability, and prompt—and offers practical design strategies for product teams to boost user engagement by providing sufficient motivation, simplifying actions, and delivering natural cues.
This article examines the hidden environmental costs of digital products and offers practical UI design strategies—covering environmental, social, and economic sustainability—to reduce energy consumption, data waste, and carbon emissions while improving accessibility and user experience.
This article outlines six core design principles—responsibility, mental‑model support, trustworthiness, diversity, co‑creation, and handling imperfection—each with practical strategies to help designers build safe, effective, and user‑centered generative AI experiences.
This guide explores essential Wear OS design principles—adhering to Material Design, focusing on key tasks, leveraging device collaboration, supporting offline use—while detailing gestures, visual styling, core components, watch faces, complications, tiles, ongoing activities, and ambient mode to help developers create efficient, user‑friendly smartwatch experiences.
This article examines the long‑standing design principle of consistency, outlines its benefits for user efficiency, trust, and workflow, and then explores the emerging criticisms such as Consistency Tyranny and Consistency Trap, offering practical guidance on balancing consistency with innovation.
