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ui-ux-quality

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Make product flows clear and recoverable: primary action and next step obvious, forms with clear labels, validation timing, actionable errors, preserved input on failure, consistent navigation and terminology, and no hidden or surprising destructive actions. Use for user flows, forms, navigation, onboarding, dialogs, and interaction design.

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  1. Distinctive:

    Keep navigation, terminology, and interaction patterns consistent with the rest of the product.

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    Avoid hidden critical actions, ambiguous icons, hover-only affordances, and surprising destructive behavior.

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  3. Distinctive:

    Verify first-use, empty, loading, failure, retry, permission-denied, and completion flows.

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  4. Very specific:

    Prefer evidence from rendered flows and task completion over aesthetic opinion alone.

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UI/UX Quality

Optimize for task clarity, confidence, error prevention, and recovery. The user should always know where they are, what happens next, and how to undo it.

Principles

  • Make the primary action, current state, context, and next step obvious.
  • Keep navigation, terminology, and interaction patterns consistent with the rest of the product.
  • Minimize unnecessary steps without hiding important decisions or risk.
  • Avoid hidden critical actions, ambiguous icons, hover-only affordances, and surprising destructive behavior. Destructive actions confirm, are reversible where possible, or are clearly labeled as irreversible.

Forms

Clear labels, sensible defaults, validation at the right moment (not on every keystroke, not only on submit), actionable error messages next to the field, and preserved input on recoverable failure. Never lose a user's work to a validation error.

Flows

Verify first-use, empty, loading, failure, retry, permission-denied, and completion flows. Each has a clear message and a clear next step.

Evidence

Prefer evidence from rendered flows and task completion over aesthetic opinion alone. Compose with frontend-design-quality for visual implementation and accessibility-quality for keyboard and assistive-technology behavior.

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