Recent posts tagged ux

Prerequisites An observable component implements getBoundingClientRect. A load function loadFn that starts the fetch or image decode. Familiarity with IntersectionObserver options: root, rootMargin, threshold. Implementation decision Use three le...

A short AI football celebration looks like a simple interface problem: accept a portrait, offer a prompt, then show a Generate button. The harder question is what each input means. If the model treats the person in a motion clip as the intended subje...

By Paul Gendek. Originally published on DEVhttps://dev.to/paulgendek/designing-browser-music-controls-around-the-next-beat-29f6. The original DEV article is labelled “Fully Autonomous”; its AI disclosure is retained below. When I am playing guitar a...

Prerequisites Familiarity with the CSS box model and box-sizing. Basic knowledge of ResizeObserver and getBoundingClientRect. Implementation decision Choose a property by the diagnostic question you’re asserting. If you care about the inner usable...

Reproduce the two click boundaries Open the parent, then use More options to open its sibling child. First click Parent action: only the child closes. Reopen the child and click Background action: both close. The difference is the click target's re...

For a long time, I treated interface animation as mostly decorative. It could make a product feel more polished or visually impressive, but I rarely considered it functionally important. In fact, I usually preferred to disable animations wherever p...

A rage click is when a visitor clicks the same spot several times in a very short time, usually 3 or more clicks within about one second. Rage clicking almost always means the visitor expected something to happen, and it did not. Think of an elevator...

We talk about pagination as if it's purely a backend concern – the database does the heavy lifting, the API returns pages, and the frontend just renders them. But in 2026, that mental model is outdated. The frontend now owns more of the data-fetching...

The biggest barrier in Web3 isn't cryptography it's vocabulary. Most users bounce off dApps because interfaces speak in backend jargon instead of human experience. If we want to build interfaces people trust, we need plain English. Here is Web3 archi...

A useful product interface should help a visitor make one decision without hiding the assumptions behind it. For a script writer, that decision might be whether a line is clear when spoken. Play HThttps://playht.app/ presents a short text-to-speech p...

A landing page's job is getting someone to sign up. Onboarding's job is getting them to actually experience the product's real value before they lose interest, and this second job is where a huge share of otherwise promising SaaS products quietly los...