UX Japan

Japanese interfaces as a lens for attention, density, context, and cultural design choices.

3 published parts

Reading order

Part 1 of 3

Why Japanese Websites Look Overloaded: Density, Tokyo, and Trust

Open Yahoo! Japan after browsing a Western startup website and the contrast is immediate. The Western page gives you a hero image, a sentence, and a button. The Japanese page gives you news, weather, shopping, finance, auctions, login, campaigns, rankings, emergency notices, and many routes elsewhere.

Design & culture 6 min

Part 2 of 3

5 Jun №21

What Western UX Can Learn from Japanese Web Design

Western web design has spent years removing things: navigation, sidebars, copy, options, hesitation. What remains is familiar: a hero image, a short promise, one button, three benefit cards, and maybe a testimonial.

Design & culture 6 min

Part 3 of 3

19 Jun №22

Beyond Minimalism: A Japanese-Inspired UX for the Web

After looking at why Japanese websites often feel overloaded, and what Western UX can learn from them, the obvious question is simple:

Design & culture 8 min