Tencent WeChat Design Center, handling design and UX research for WeChat products.
This article examines how AI, from its early deep‑learning roots to modern design tools, challenges traditional product design by highlighting both its strengths and limitations, explores which design tasks may be automated, and proposes ways designers can collaborate with AI to stay relevant.
This article recounts how the Figma team designed and implemented the native Find and Replace feature, detailing the research, sorting logic, UI decisions, zoom and pan handling, shortcut design, and lessons learned from plugin development to create an intuitive, fast, and seamless search experience across FigJam and Figma.
This article explains how to map design tokens—style, component, template, and file tokens—to appropriate carriers in Figma and Sketch, covering token categories, multi‑mode and multi‑business handling, component token strategies, property naming conventions, handoff methods, and version management.
The article examines the rise of UI design systems, their promised efficiencies, and the hidden risks they inherit from historical precedents in industrial, architectural, and transportation design, urging designers to maintain critical reflection and avoid over‑reliance on rigid standards.
Narrative design replaces visual mock‑ups with text‑based stories to explore user flows, clarify concepts, assess risks, and gather feedback across platforms, enabling faster iteration and clearer communication between designers, developers, and stakeholders.
This article explains how to adapt mobile UI designs for multiple languages by addressing script differences, text length, layout adjustments, icon usage, and strategies for displaying long strings, providing practical guidelines for creating a seamless experience for both Chinese and non‑Chinese users.
This article traces the origins of cyberpunk, explains its historical phases from the Golden Age and New Wave to the modern era, and details the visual characteristics that distinguish classic and new cyberpunk across literature, film, animation, and games.
This article traces the rise, fall, and resurgence of skeuomorphic design—from its decorative origins in ancient artifacts and early automobiles to its pivotal role in early graphical user interfaces, the flat‑design backlash, and its renewed relevance in modern mobile, AR, and VR experiences.
This article explores how three lightweight research tools—Hawkeye, Weheatmap, and iFeedback—are applied to a mini‑program customer‑service console to uncover what agents see, do, and receive, guiding redesign decisions through eye‑tracking, heatmaps, and automated feedback clustering.
This article examines why consumers often reject brand redesigns, analyzing cases like Smuckers, Marriott, and Slack, and identifies two key factors—visual interference and identity—while offering practical recommendations for companies to redesign successfully without provoking negative backlash.
