Smart Interface Design Patterns

Nobody is surprised by design systems these days.

Meetings can be utterly exhausting and frustrating, but also valuable and productive.

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Barely any website can escape the curse of the FAQ section.

Imagine that you’ve just received an invite to a new meeting.

Nobody gets particularly excited about breadcrumbs.

There are many flavors of hamburger icons out there.

Every time you apply for a job application, open a bank account or book a flight, you probably will be typing in your date of birth.

I have to admit that I used to be very skeptical about the entire topic of AI and algorithmic design, and how it is going to change and shape design on the web.

Not every navigation item is equally important.

We all have our opinions about infinite scroll, and usually not very good ones.

Dealing with complex filters in enterprise environments can be quite a challenge.

Copywriting is difficult.

Design critiques often undermine trust and crush team spirit.

Many organizations focus primarily on data coming from their analytics.

Admittedly, there might be very good reasons for making buttons disabled by default, but there are also scenarios when disabled buttons turn out to be a disastrous design pattern.

When we design interfaces, we rarely think about error messages first.

To get better at estimates, we need to know just how much productive time we have, and how much work we need to complete.

Filters are everywhere.

Imagine that you’ve just arrived to Tokyo.

Too often, links on the web don’t get the attention they deserve.

If you ever had to design a multi-lingual website, you probably know the drill.

Every usability study reveals the same story: hiding important navigation is harmful, especially on pages where people tend to navigate a lot.

You've just signed up for a service, yet here it comes — the disruptive, annoying, attention-demanding onboarding tutorial.

Let me ask you a simple question: what’s the role of a PM?

When we make purchasing decisions, we often rely on expertise from people like us who have already purchased that item.

Imagine a shiny newsletter pop-up.

Gerry McGovern once rightfully suggested that more people have been on the top of Mount Everest than have been to the 10th page of Google’s search results.

We often dismiss pricing plans as if they were quite straightforward to design.

There aren’t many things in usability testing that keep showing up over and over again.

Carousels don’t have a good reputation, and rightfully so.

Vertical Split Navigation # Many mobile navigation menus show only one level of navigation at a time.

Undoubtedly there are major advantages of inline validation in forms.