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Laws of UX

🔵🟠 A Practical Guide To Design Principles
by Vitaly Friedman @vitalyf.bsky.social @vitalyf
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https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2026/04/practical-guide-design-principles/

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A practical guide to design principles · Choosing principles that shape design decisions https://ilo.im/16bmpq

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Four Levels Of Customer Understanding — Smart Interface Design Patterns

What people say, feel, think and do are often very different things. How to think about underlying reasons for user behavior, hidden motivations, root causes and the different layers of reality.

UX isn’t just about users.
It’s about behavior.
• Instagram → keeps you scrolling
• Amazon → builds trust
• Apple → nudges pricing
Good UX guides decisions.
That’s the real game.
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What's good in Spotify's design?

Jakob’s Law – Familiar controls
Fitt’s Law – Easy-to-use buttons
Aesthetic Usability Effect – Clean, smooth design
Law of Proximity – Grouped content
Law of Similarity – Consistent icons

Spotify's design is UX done right!

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Why most design principles fail · “The problem is that most design principles don’t work.” https://ilo.im/16bhjw

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Why Most Design Principles Fail

Many design principles are really statements of values. Values describe what a team believes. Principles guide decisions. Values express intent. Principles h...

Design Principles

Most people count 2 elements.
Text + image.

But they miss the most important one:
Whitespace.

Whitespace isn’t empty.

It’s what makes everything else work.

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Great UX isn’t guesswork.
It follows principles.

Here are 8 UX laws Uber uses to make its app feel simple and fast

Good UX is rarely accidental.
It’s built on proven design principles.

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Graphic Design Rules Every Designer Knows

Graphic Design Rules Every Designer Knows As a graphic designer, you feel like you have superpowers, but your superpowers are battling fonts, figuring out vague client requests, and building a sixth sense for perfectly aligned pixels. Sense a pattern? Then, these 10 graphic design rules will defini... Graphic Design Rules Every Designer Knows #Technology#ClientCommunication #ColorTheory #DesignMistakes #DesignPrinciples…

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Graphic Design Rules Every Designer Knows

Graphic Design Rules Every Designer Knows As a graphic designer, you feel like you have superpowers, but your superpowers are battling fonts, figuring out vague client requests, and building a sixt…

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Operationalizing AI Ethics in Design: From High-Level Principles to Encapsulated Workflows » { design@tive } information design

How can designers operationalize AI ethics? Turn ethical principles into workflow guardrails that make agentic systems safe, fair, and contestable.

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