UX Knowledge Base by

A knowledge base of user experience (UX) design concepts, documenting best practices and methodologies to explain why a given problem matters and how to solve it.

105
Patterns
31
Principles
23
Processes
10
Standards
158
Sources

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Pattern Action Buttons Shading a button to signal it's clickable, leveraging real-world and learned-GUI knowledge — plus a standardized action-verb label vocabulary. Principle Gestalt Psychology The perceptual-organization principles — proximity, similarity, closure, continuity — behind grouping and focal-point design. Process Rapid Prototyping Site maps, storyboards, and schematics along the low-to-high-fidelity prototyping spectrum.

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Patterns 105 Concrete, reusable solutions to a recurring UI or content problem — the patterns themselves, independent of the theory that motivates them.
Principles 31 The underlying theories, laws, and cognitive models that the patterns above are built on.
Processes 23 Design methodology: how to learn about users and run a design project.
Standards 10 Formal external specifications and legal/regulatory frameworks that the patterns and principles above are designed to conform to, rather than design theory in their own right.
Sources 158 The external and internal sources cited, grouped by origin.