The USB-C connector looks similar to a micro USB connector at first glance, though it's more oval in shape and slightly thicker to accommodate its best feature: flippability.
Like Lightning and MagSafe, the USB-C connector does not have an upward or downward direction. Arrange the connector correctly, you never need to flip it to insert; the "right path" is always upward. Both ends of a standard cable have the same connectors, so you don't have to figure out which end is connected to where. But for all the USB cables we have been using for the past 20 years, this is not the case. Most of the time, there are different connectors on both ends.