WhatsApp Design Principles

A product designer at WhatsApp listed these 5 rules WhatsApp sticks to when designing a product for over a billion people.

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Transcription: WhatsApp designs and builds its product with specific principles in mind. These principles are at the core of the decision-making process. Here are some examples of these shared values:

• The interface should feel native to the device the person is using
• The app should be lightweight and require as little storage as possible
• The interface should be simple
• User actions and animations should be quick to respond
• Features should provide obvious utility so they require little introduction