Declarative Dragging
Drag-and-drop makes the digital graspable. Horowitz, Blinn & Heer, UIST 2026 Best Paper.
Declarative Dragging
Drag-and-drop makes the digital graspable. Horowitz, Blinn & Heer, UIST 2026 Best Paper.
Interface Lineage
A free library of interface patterns and principles. Name the mechanism, prompt it to your AI, and invent new interfaces.
Calendar Structure
What would a paper calendar feel like if you could see the same data in different views?
Exuberant Video Game Menus Designed With da Vinci in Mind (Published 2024)
The menus within role-playing games by Atlus, including the new Metaphor: ReFantazio, unfurl in a sensory feast of color, movement, sound and typography.
The Lightbulb Computer — Reimagining Spatial & Ambient Computing with Projectors
A new direction for computing: projecting information into the real world to augment it, with a device that combines a projector and computer vision in the shape of a large lightbulb.
on ui as a metaphor
a personal manifesto and declaration - also known as I am threading a connection through all the notes I've sent myself over the last six months
The Website Specification
A platform-agnostic, full specification of the technical features a good website should have. Built in the open under an MIT licence.
“I think there’s a lot of value in these.” – Unsung
A blog about software craft and quality
Let your designs fail for the right reasons – Firefox UX
How AI-assisted native prototypes changed what usability testing could show me. If you've ever simplified an interaction just to make a prototype manageable, you've probably felt the tension between ...
The Title Cards in Blade Runner Are Fucking Amazing
Appreciating typography is a study in paradox. The primary goal of well-designed typography is to help you read the words, not appreciate how the words are comp
LukeW | Agent Management Interface Patterns
As an increasing number of AI applications evolve to agents doing work for people, agent management becomes a critical part of these product's design. How can p...
User Onboarding | Onboarding UX Patterns | UserOnboard | User Onboarding
Find inspiration in how others are approaching the same user onboarding design practices that you're currently facing!
Let’s invent new interfaces, not new products
Posted on Thursday 25 Feb 2021. 507 words, 2 links. By Matt Webb.
The Story Behind our Brand Illustration
Our brand illustration shows three layers: the foundation being built, the valley we're stuck in, and the world waiting above. Here's what it all means.
toward a new aesthetic
Lately I’ve been thinking about what being online looks like. The actual look of it. The aesthetic. As I continue to think and write and talk about escaping...
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