A really common user interface pattern is a big clickable area, such as a card. Sometimes you need controls within that card that are also clickable. There's lots of ways to do it wrong, but fret not, Eric is here to show you how to do it right.
Invisible details - Building contextual menus - Linear
We recently added contextual menus to Linear. This makes the app faster and easier to use for people who prefer their mouse. One small thing that you won’t see or think about but will hopefully feel is a detail we designed into how sub-menus work.
User-tailorable systems: pressing the issues with buttons
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Direct manipulation vs. interface agents
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10/GUI
Here it is: my crazy summer project to reinvent desktop human-computer interaction. This video examines the benefits and limitations inherent in current mouse-based and window-oriented interfaces, the problems facing other potential solutions, and visualizes my proposal for a completely new way of interacting with desktop computers. There's more information at http://10gui.com .
Zag - Rapidly build UI components without sweating over the logic.
State machines for accessible, interactive and performant UI components
AI-Generated UI Is Inaccessible by Default
It doesn't mean you can't get AI to help with accessible code, you've just got to know what you're doing.
Interactive connectors and MCP Apps | Claude
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Create a semantic breakout button to make an entire element clickable
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On Games, Modes, and the Depth of Fewer Inputs
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cursor now has design mode (⇧+⌘+D)- click to edit, drag to draw- shift + drag to box things in- add directly to chat with ⌥+click pic.twitter.com/nh7RXNV9LU— erik (@flowstated) April 2, 2026
+ ui primitives for navigating between, discovering them, managing them, etc ! (and on all the above, and the ones dan mentions, I don't think they need to look anything like the solutions we already have for these things, new ideas are possible!)
daniel holmgren 🫠
so you have a "universal" app that pulls together all these disparate highly-contextual apps. notifications for all of them in one spot, a algorithm/discovery for seeing updates across all of them, etc
