UI Patterns Blog

Usability Testing: A Practical Guide

How to plan, run and learn from a usability test, with example tasks, a worked example, how many participants you need and what a test can’t tell you.

By Anders Toxboe

Oct 25, 2026

100 examples of list design: patterns for clearer interfaces

Explore 100 list-design examples and learn how to use hierarchy, spacing, images, grouping, and interaction to make lists easier to scan and...

Oct 18, 2026

Onboarding Is Becoming a Conversation

In ten onboarding journeys, setup is handed to the user’s AI coding agent, the wizard has become a prompt box, and AI...

Mar 22, 2026

Why Create a Design System

Design systems are often positioned as the solution to inconsistent interfaces, slow development, and fragmented user experiences.

Mar 08, 2026

People Choose the Path of Least Effort

People tend to choose the path that requires the least effort. When something is easy to do, they do it. When it...

Mar 02, 2026

How Better Usability Reduces Risk

Reducing Friction in UI Design

Feb 16, 2026

Fast to Build. Hard to Use.

AI tools have made AI UX design wildly productive: you can prompt your way to screens, flows, even working prototypes in minutes....

Jan 31, 2026

Testing With Synthetic Users

A Practical Guide for Product & UX Teams

Jan 18, 2026

Stop Designing Use Cases. Start Designing Capabilities.

Why path-based UX fragments products, and how platform thinking fixes it.

Jul 07, 2025

8 UX research practices we should let die

Some are outdated. Others are misused. And a few were never that useful to begin with. Yet they continue to show up...