
01 / Overview
Feels technical, educational, clear, with a deliberate rather than generic personality.
Signature move
One token visibly travels through the system and changes state at every meaningful handoff.
- Intensity
- assertive
- Versatility
- 5 / 5
- ID
moving-diagram
02 / Example art
Moving Diagram
Original artwork establishes the direction's visual language before it is translated into an interface.

03 / Website example
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Examples are in production
The direction is available now. Its brand websites are being built as independent sites and will appear here during local production.
04 / Fit
Suitable for
Suitable for
technology / logistics / finance / education / consulting / healthcare
Business goals
explain / simulate / plan / debug
A strong choice when
Strong when technology, logistics, finance, education need to explain, simulate, plan through a memorable but repeatable visual system.
Avoid when
Avoid when the brief needs complete visual neutrality or when this direction would compete with essential information and actions.
05 / Design system
Design system
Rules that should remain coherent as content, devices, and business needs change.
- 01Composition
- A primary flow occupies the main field; supporting text and controls attach directly to nodes and transitions.
- 02Hierarchy
- Make the signature move the first organizing decision, then reveal supporting information through stable scale, alignment, and sequence.
- 03Typography
- Compact labels, strong step numerals, and readable explanations outside congested paths.
- 04Color
- State and path colors follow one legend with redundant symbols, patterns, or labels.
- 05Imagery
- Use real components or simplified objects only when they clarify what travels or transforms.
- 06Material
- Wires, tracks, pipes, routes, frames, or cells are selected from the domain rather than generic arrows.
- 07Motion
- Causal motion has pause, step, scrub, and reduced-motion equivalents.
Adaptation
Keep the signature move invariant. Adapt imagery, material, language, and interaction to the actual technology, logistics, finance context rather than copying a finished reference.
Accessibility
Use progressive disclosure, stable alignment, and generous line spacing for dense information. Provide an equivalent reduced-motion state. Meet WCAG AA contrast, visible focus, 44px targets, and never encode meaning through color or style alone.
06 / Background
Background
These lineages are source-linked research doors, not permission to copy a particular work or brand.
- 01flowchart
- 02chronophotography
- 03circuit diagram
- 04explorable explanations
Guardrail
Distinguish illustrative simplification from actual system behavior and edge cases.
07 / Agent recipe
moving-diagram
Use the stable ID and recipe to give design agents the same context. Always adapt the output to the real business.
Prompt recipe
Use case: stylized-concept
Asset type: Aesthetic Directions Encyclopedia showcase, 3:2 landscape master
Primary request: Create one polished freeform showcase for Moving Diagram, applied to FLOW 3, a clearly fictional public water-system explainer.
Scene/backdrop: a large educational screen revealing a city's water journey one relationship at a time with a matching printed diagram.
Style/medium: A coherent contemporary design world, not a collage of references. Explain sequence, dependency, and transformation by making the diagram itself the primary experience.
Composition/framing: A primary flow occupies the main field; supporting text and controls attach directly to nodes and transitions. Keep all important content inside an 8 percent safe margin.
Typography: Compact labels, strong step numerals, and readable explanations outside congested paths.
Color palette: State and path colors follow one legend with redundant symbols, patterns, or labels.
Imagery: Use real components or simplified objects only when they clarify what travels or transforms.
Materials/textures: Wires, tracks, pipes, routes, frames, or cells are selected from the domain rather than generic arrows.
Text (verbatim): "FLOW 3". No other readable words.
Constraints: Original fictional concept; visibly applied to motion, data-viz, presentation; realistic production detail; no real company, client, result, claim, signature, or watermark; no imitation of a living artist or proprietary campaign.
Avoid: animated arrows without explanation, spaghetti flows, motion as the only way to understand sequence, real logos, watermarks, artist imitation, generic mood board, illegible filler text.
Pilot refinement: Make one dominant integrated real-world application readable at thumbnail scale. Secondary views may support it but must remain subordinate. Do not create an equal-weight tiled mood board or generic presentation collage unless sequencing is essential to the direction. Render the exact requested text correctly and do not invent other readable copy.Working constraints
- Use one coherent direction grammar, not a collage of style references.
- Use only a fictional business and minimal exact text.
- Do not imitate a living artist, real brand, client project, or proprietary campaign.
- Preserve essential hierarchy, legibility, contrast, and reduced-motion equivalence.
- Avoid: animated arrows without explanation.
- Avoid: spaghetti flows.
- Avoid: motion as the only way to understand sequence.
08 / Sources & rights
Sources & rights
Work ownerSol
Example licenseAll rights reserved
- 01
ASME — American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Role: lineage · Linked source retains its own rights; IndexStyle structured description is CC BY 4.0.
- 02
Britannica — Chronophotography
Role: lineage · Linked source retains its own rights; IndexStyle structured description is CC BY 4.0.
- 03
The Institution of Engineering and Technology
Role: lineage · Linked source retains its own rights; IndexStyle structured description is CC BY 4.0.
- 04
Bret Victor — Explorable Explanations (2011, 一次資料)
Role: lineage · Linked source retains its own rights; IndexStyle structured description is CC BY 4.0.
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