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Instagram Analytics

Turned dense Instagram performance data into a visual, comparable workspace spanning audience, posts, Reels, Stories, hashtags, and shareable reports.

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Problem

Marketers needed to understand what was working without piecing together disconnected metrics, content types, and reporting views.

Role

Product Design · UI Implementation · Web app

Pivotal decision

Organize the product from macro to micro, then keep directly comparable data together through reusable navigation, graph, table, and state patterns.

Public product evidence

A structured analytics workspace documented in a customer-facing Later walkthrough, with patterns for audience, content, hashtag, and report analysis.

Later Instagram Analytics detailed post performance table with sortable engagement, follower, impression, reach, and like columns
01Product interface

Detailed post performance keeps content and comparable metrics in one sortable working surface.

Decisions and system thinking

Making dense performance data easier to scan, compare, and explain

The work treats information architecture, visualization, and interface states as one system rather than separate screens.

01 / Information architecture

Move from the big picture into the detail.

Tabs progress from overview and audience context into post, Reel, Story, and hashtag performance. Related metrics stay together so comparisons do not require unnecessary navigation.

02 / Comparison patterns

Choose the view that matches the analytical question.

Time-series graphs expose change and ranking over time, while sortable tables support high-volume content comparison. Clear legends, headings, and scales make each form legible.

03 / Product states

Explain technical data in plain language.

Microcopy, empty states, and error states translate analytics terminology into useful next steps, keeping the system approachable when data is incomplete or unavailable.

Shipped information model

One path from overview to shareable evidence

  1. 01Understand account performance at a glance
  2. 02Inspect audience composition and activity
  3. 03Compare posts, Reels, and Stories
  4. 04Track industry and owned hashtag trends
  5. 05Share a performance report

Shipped-product walkthrough

Instagram Analytics product walkthrough

This later production walkthrough demonstrates the breadth of the shipped workspace. It is presented as public product evidence, not as a launch-era impact metric.

A 67-second walkthrough covering audience, content, hashtag, and reporting workflows.Open production walkthrough

Evidence boundary

What this public material can—and cannot—show

The interfaces and walkthrough demonstrate a shipped analytics system. They do not establish adoption, business impact, team size, or a precise boundary between hands-on code and implementation-quality responsibility, so those claims remain intentionally conservative.

Design contribution

What I contributed across the product workflow

  • Project-scope definition with product
  • Competitor and user research and testing
  • Impact–effort prioritization
  • User flows, prototypes, and interaction definition
  • High-fidelity product design
  • Figma component-library creation
  • HTML/CSS implementation quality
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