# Optical balance in UI design

> A Japanese instructional deck about visual balance in UI, combining green chapter slides, annotated mobile-page examples, an enlarged play-button diagram, letterform alignment guides, and small cartoon characters.

- Kind: Slides
- Live deck: https://speakerdeck.com/yuichi_hara7/mei-siiuiwozuo-rutameni-dezainagayi-shi-siteiru-tiyotutositakao-efang
- Page: https://meetreference.com/v/small-ideas-designers-use-beautiful-ui/
- Ready-to-use agent handoff: https://meetreference.com/v/small-ideas-designers-use-beautiful-ui/agent.txt
- Authorship: Not stated
- Made with: Not stated
- Model: not stated
- Built with: not stated
- Style: Decks; minimal, educational, diagrammatic, green, whitespace, line illustration
- Slides: 29
- Preview: a flip-through of inspected screenshots; open the live work to experience its motion and interactions.
- Shared by 原 佑一｜クリエイティブディレクター in Website, Aug 26, 2024: https://speakerdeck.com/yuichi_hara7/mei-siiuiwozuo-rutameni-dezainagayi-shi-siteiru-tiyotutositakao-efang
- Prompt fidelity: Unavailable in this entry. The recreation brief is written by Reference.

## Before you start

Guidance from Reference, separate from the creator's instructions.

1. Read the reference and inspect the project, installed libraries, and available agent skills before writing code. Reuse suitable tools already present.
2. Prefer the creator-reported libraries and skills when they fit the task. Explain what useful additions help with, and install missing project dependencies or relevant skills from official sources when the environment and the user's existing permissions allow it. Respect the project's package manager and setup rules; do not ask again for routine setup already authorized.
3. Distinguish tools used by the creator from your own recommendations. A listed tool is not automatically required, and an empty tools or requirements list means the setup is unknown, not that nothing is needed.
4. Ask concise questions when missing inputs or choices materially affect the result: paid services, credentials, the user's assets, or a different production approach. Use existing answers and permissions; continue independent work while waiting.
5. If a useful library, skill, or service cannot be installed or used, explain an available alternative and its expected effect on quality, features, or effort. Get the user's choice before a material compromise; otherwise state the fallback and continue. Never silently simplify the result or claim to have used a tool you did not use.

## Recreating this deck

This is a visual reference. No original creator prompt is available. The following brief was written by Reference after inspecting the work.

Alternate full-color agenda slides with white demonstration slides, dimming inactive agenda items to signal the current topic. Enlarge one object per demonstration and overlay thin measurement lines with high-contrast numeric labels so the visual discrepancy can be inspected directly. Use small outlined characters beside short explanations to soften the technical material. For a new subject, replace the branded phone screens and symbols with relevant examples while retaining the diagram scale, annotation system, and chapter rhythm.

1. Open the live work or source and inspect the frame images below.
2. Adapt its layout, hierarchy, palette, and interaction patterns to the user's own content and brand.
3. Compare the result against the reference. Use your own assets and credit the original creator.

## What it looks like

Written by Reference from the captured walkthrough frames, not by the creator.

A clean instructional presentation about small design choices for beautiful UI, combining concise Japanese text, green-accented diagrams, interface examples, and a recurring illustrated character.

- Color: Mostly white backgrounds with vivid and dark greens, charcoal or black text, and occasional pale gray interface details.
- Type: Japanese sans-serif typography with bold headings, smaller explanatory labels, and prominent numerals; simple geometric logo and interface lettering.
- Framing: Generous whitespace and minimal layouts. Slides place text alongside small illustrations or interface examples; some focus on a single centered graphic or mobile screen.
- Structure: Opens with a title slide, introduces three design principles, then shows examples illustrating spacing, subtle color differences, and centered or balanced UI elements, alongside related mobile and branding visuals.

Storyboard of the slides: https://meetreference.com/media/small-ideas-designers-use-beautiful-ui/storyboard.webp

- Slide 1: https://meetreference.com/media/small-ideas-designers-use-beautiful-ui/f1.webp
- Slide 5: https://meetreference.com/media/small-ideas-designers-use-beautiful-ui/f2.webp
- Slide 8: https://meetreference.com/media/small-ideas-designers-use-beautiful-ui/f3.webp
- Slide 12: https://meetreference.com/media/small-ideas-designers-use-beautiful-ui/f4.webp
- Slide 15: https://meetreference.com/media/small-ideas-designers-use-beautiful-ui/f5.webp
- Slide 19: https://meetreference.com/media/small-ideas-designers-use-beautiful-ui/f6.webp
- Slide 22: https://meetreference.com/media/small-ideas-designers-use-beautiful-ui/f7.webp
- Slide 26: https://meetreference.com/media/small-ideas-designers-use-beautiful-ui/f8.webp
- Slide 29: https://meetreference.com/media/small-ideas-designers-use-beautiful-ui/f9.webp

## Links

- View deck: https://speakerdeck.com/yuichi_hara7/mei-siiuiwozuo-rutameni-dezainagayi-shi-siteiru-tiyotutositakao-efang
- Original post: https://speakerdeck.com/yuichi_hara7/mei-siiuiwozuo-rutameni-dezainagayi-shi-siteiru-tiyotutositakao-efang