You might be interested in the design principals of the tidyverse, a group of R packages built to support data analysis.

https://design.tidyverse.org/unifying-principles.html

One emphasis of theirs that I find really powerful is the "pit of success", where the least effort action moves toward a positive outcome.

Broader overview of tidyverse here:

https://tidyverse.tidyverse.org/articles/paper.html