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/design-everyday-things

Explains why something is confusing: whether it shows how to use it, gives feedback, and helps people avoid mistakes.

Example

/design-everyday-things why do people miss the filter button?

Design skills from wondelai based on books and known methods: Refactoring UI, web typography, usability rules of thumb, microinteractions, Don Norman's principles, Apple's design guidelines (HIG), and retention and habit design. Plain text only; nothing runs.

Skip it when: Choosing a page's whole look. Impeccable and Hallmark own that.
Best for: Font choices, fixing what stands out on a page, and usability checks based on a named method.
Changes: Advice
Notes: Steve Jobs review and the heuristic audit run only when you type them, so a review never starts uninvited. The rest can start on their own when you talk about type, hierarchy or usability.

Skills it uses

design-everyday-thingsApply foundational design principles: affordances, signifiers, constraints, feedback, and conceptual models. Use when the user mentions "why is this confusing", "affordance", "error prevention", "discoverability", "human-centered design", "mental model", "mapping", "seven stages of action", "users keep making mistakes", "this is unintuitive", or "people cant figure out how to use it". Also trigger when reducing product complexity or feature creep. Covers the gulfs of execution and evaluation. For usability scoring, see ux-heuristics. For iOS-specific patterns, see ios-hig-design.design-kit·Wondel.ai