Topic
Flows, usability, information architecture, and the decisions that make products easier to use.
UX design is the work of helping someone complete a job with as little confusion as possible. Flows, states, copy, and information architecture matter more than decoration.
Use this topic to study patterns that show up across products: onboarding, search, forms, errors, and empty states. Then practice them in a challenge instead of only reading about them.
UI Coach guides
Search UX for query input, results, no-results, and the moment someone is looking for a thing they can almost name.
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How to design filters that narrow a set without trapping people in zero results they cannot explain.
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How to design empty states that teach the next action instead of looking like a broken screen.
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A practical reading of UX principles for product work: clarity, recovery, and the job the user came to finish.
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Smashing Magazine · hello@smashingmagazine.com (Vitaly Friedman) · Apr 10, 2026
Practical guidelines for driving UX impact in organizations with legacy systems and broken processes. Brought to you by Measuring UX Impact , **friendly video course on UX** and design patterns by Vitaly.
Eleken · Jun 12, 2026
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CSS-Tricks · Geoff Graham · 6d
Lea's pushing back on light/dark mode implementations that display three state options for visitors: light, dark, and system. Dark mode toggles: two states are enough originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks . You should really get the newsletter as well.
Eleken · Jun 16, 2026
Discover 50+ mobile UX design examples from real apps, with lessons you can use to improve onboarding, navigation, motion, and personalization.
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Jeffrey Zeldman · L. Jeffrey Zeldman · Apr 20, 2026
Maybe I’m special. Or unlucky. But things that supposedly work intuitively for most users tend to fail spectacularly for me. After stints in academia, journalism, advertising, and music, I poured myself into web design in early 1995. I understood it in a way most designers didn’t, and rose faster than I probably deser.
Adrian Roselli · Adrian Roselli · Jun 11, 2026
Hi, just me heading off some bad advice I’m starting to see in developer venues. Background The proposed Document Outline Algorithm, where headings would automatically reset themselves to the appropriate level based on their position in the DOM structure, was never part of a final HTML specification. It was quickly…
Smashing Magazine · hello@smashingmagazine.com (Vitaly Friedman) · Jul 15, 2026
Many companies assume everyone craves new AI features. But the reality is that most people don't want more AI — at least not in the way most AI leaders envision it. Brought to you by Design Patterns For AI Interfaces , **friendly video courses on UX** and design patterns by Vitaly.
Eleken · Aug 5, 2026
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Adam Silver · Feb 17, 2019
I’ve decided to give weeknotes a go. I don’t really know if there’s a format I should follow but I’m just going to focus on things I did (or read) that I think are worth highlighting. What’s interaction design? Last week I changed various pieces of content on my site. For example, my home page sub title now reads: ‘He.
IBM Design · Roosevelt T. Faulkner · May 6, 2026
Written by Roosevelt Faulkner and Phil Doyle, PhD Edited by Carole Baden A 3D illustration of interconnected digital objects arranged in a flowing double-helix pattern, representing the integration of diverse data sources and systems in a hybrid cloud environment. Trust is not a feature, it’s an outcome As AI systems.
MeasuringU · Jim Lewis, PhD and Jeff Sauro, PhD · 4d
There’s nothing quite the same as chatting with AI. But it’s just like every other interface in one important way: we experience it. And what we experience, we can measure. Measuring the user experience means assessing both what people do and what people think (a mix of action and attitudinal metrics). For attitudes,.
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