Show HN: UI micro interactions prompts for AI(typeui.sh)
68 points by elwingo1 | 43 comments
TypeUI gallery of 113 interactive UI micro interactions (buttons, inputs, modals, sliders, etc.) with copyable implementation prompts for AI coding tools.
#ui-design on Hacker News
46 stories tagged ui-design, newest first.
Bring Back the Cool Save File Screens(scabshack.lol)
55 points by surprisetalk | 19 comments
A blog post reminiscing about the memory card save file screens of sixth-generation consoles like the Dreamcast, GameCube, PS2, and original Xbox.
Good type against all odds(unsung.aresluna.org)
187 points by firloop | 24 comments
A blog post on Unsung, a software craft and quality blog, titled "Good type against all odds" about typography done well under constraints.
No more icons in every menu by default(blog.jim-nielsen.com)
449 points by riffraff | 275 comments
Blog post by Jim Nielsen noting Apple removed default icons from every menu item in macOS Golden Gate and updated its Human Interface Guidelines against the practice.
Developing Taste(emilkowal.ski)
44 points by cat-whisperer | 36 comments
An essay by design engineer Emil Kowalski arguing that taste and attention to detail differentiate software products now that functionality is commoditized.
Fitts's law: why the menu bar is at the top(milos.fyi)
7 points by mmilanovic4 | 0 comments
Blog post explaining Fitts's law and why placing the menu bar at the screen's top edge makes it faster to target.
The new Firefox design is here(blog.mozilla.org)
39 points by timpera | 28 comments
Mozilla Distilled blog post announcing the redesigned Firefox browser interface.
10 Tells of a Slop UI(hereticpleb.vercel.app)
251 points by theanonymousone | 177 comments
A blog post listing ten telltale signs of a low-quality, AI-generated-looking "slop" user interface, such as excessive gradients, rainbow colors, and pulsing badges.
Bug: Border radius has infected VSCode editor(github.com)
66 points by 2Ucoder | 39 comments
A GitHub issue on the microsoft/vscode repository reporting that border radius styling has spread across the editor UI in version 1.139.0, closed as duplicate.
Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop(lwn.net)
363 points by signa11 | 449 comments
LWN.net article reporting on Scott Jenson's Akademy 2026 talk urging open-source projects like KDE to move desktop design beyond the traditional WIMP model.
How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots(timmarinin.net)
665 points by gavide | 418 comments
Blog post by Tim Marinin examining how the Bluesky app adds its butterfly logo to screenshots of posts.
The AI Aesthetic(blog.jim-nielsen.com)
343 points by montroser | 157 comments
Blog post by Jim Nielsen on emerging design idioms of the AI era, like the sparkle emoji and rainbow colors, compared to the hamburger menu.
Stolen Buttons(anatolyzenkov.com)
648 points by Gecko4072 | 157 comments
A gallery of website buttons collected by Anatoly Zenkov's Button Stealer extension, which grabs a button from every site he visits.
If you're a button, you have one job(unsung.aresluna.org)
505 points by nozzlegear | 249 comments
A blog post by Marcin Wichary on the Unsung blog comparing image-rotation buttons on iPhone and Nothing Phone to illustrate universal UI button design challenges.
Free the Icons(weblog.rogueamoeba.com)
650 points by zdw | 240 comments
Rogue Amoeba blog post by Paul Kafasis arguing Apple should end its prohibition on custom shapes in macOS app icons.
Every Frame Perfect(tonsky.me)
792 points by ravenical | 260 comments
Blog post by Nikita Prokopov (tonsky) arguing that UIs should follow Wayland's "every frame is perfect" goal, avoiding glitchy intermediate states.
Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes(vorpus.github.io)
1098 points by lizhang | 196 comments
Landing page for performative-ui, a satirical MIT-licensed React component library of AI startup design tropes like gradient text, sparkles, and prompt heroes.
Vivaldi 8.0(vivaldi.com)
351 points by OuterVale | 232 comments
Vivaldi blog post by Jon von Tetzchner announcing Vivaldi 8.0 for desktop, described as the browser's biggest design overhaul ever.
Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)(essays.johnloeber.com)
668 points by phil294 | 362 comments
John Loeber's 2023 Substack essay arguing for a return to idiomatic, consistent UI design like that of the desktop software era.
Make macOS consistently bad unironically(lr0.org)
509 points by speckx | 340 comments
Blog post on making macOS 26 window corners consistently rounded across apps via an AppKit code tweak, instead of disabling SIP to remove roundness.
Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results(9to5mac.com)
581 points by ksec | 479 comments
9to5Mac article reporting Apple is testing an App Store search design that makes sponsored ads look more like regular search results.
The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe(noheger.at)
2688 points by happosai | 1158 comments
Blog post arguing that macOS Tahoe's large window corner radius makes resizing windows by dragging their corners harder, hurting usability.
It's hard to justify Tahoe icons(tonsky.me)
2231 points by lylejantzi3rd | 873 comments
Nikita Tonsky's blog post critiquing the menu icons added throughout macOS Tahoe and arguing they are hard to justify from a UI design perspective.
Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help(blog.jim-nielsen.com)
769 points by ArmageddonIt | 307 comments
Jim Nielsen's blog post criticizing the UI trend of putting an icon on every menu item, using Google Sheets menus as an example.
Penpot: The Open-Source Figma(github.com)
724 points by selvan | 176 comments
GitHub repository for Penpot, an open-source design and prototyping tool for design and code collaboration, positioned as an alternative to Figma.
Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled(jayd.ml)
798 points by jaydenmilne | 522 comments
Blog follow-up claiming a joke prediction that YouTube's home page would shrink to showing very few videos has come true, with a chart of declining video counts.
Free software scares normal people(danieldelaney.net)
866 points by cryptophreak | 559 comments
A blog post arguing that free and open-source software often has interfaces too complex and intimidating for non-technical users.
What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?(blog.johnozbay.com)
618 points by Bogdanp | 418 comments
John Ozbay's blog post arguing that Apple's attention to detail in its products and software has declined over the last 8-10 years.
Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26(nngroup.com)
529 points by uxjw | 373 comments
Nielsen Norman Group article by Raluca Budiu critiquing iOS 26's Liquid Glass visual design for obscuring content and harming usability.
macOS 26 Tahoe's Dead Canary Utility App Icons(daringfireball.net)
345 points by Bogdanp | 141 comments
Daring Fireball post by John Gruber critiquing the redesigned utility app icons in macOS 26 Tahoe as a warning sign for Apple's design direction.
Hidden interface controls that affect usability(interactions.acm.org)
538 points by cxr | 382 comments
ACM Interactions feature by Philip Kortum arguing that hidden interface controls harm usability, drawing on Engelbart and Norman's knowledge-in-the-world concept.
Show HN: CSS generator for a high-def glass effect(glass3d.dev)
383 points by kris-kay | 99 comments
glass3d is an interactive CSS generator for a layered glassmorphism effect with adjustable backdrop-filter, color, texture, and bevel, outputting copyable CSS.
Apple introduces a universal design across platforms(apple.com)
659 points by meetpateltech | 1049 comments
Apple Newsroom press release from June 9, 2025 announcing a new universal software design language across its platforms.
Material 3 Expressive(design.google)
332 points by meetpateltech | 516 comments
Google Design library article introducing Material 3 Expressive, an update to Material Design informed by Google's user research.
Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
403 points by troupo | 314 comments
Ask HN thread requesting examples of user interfaces, apps, and sites with high information density, with replies like htop-style terminal tools.
Someone at YouTube needs glasses(jayd.ml)
1293 points by jaydenmilne | 650 comments
A personal blog post complaining about YouTube's redesigned homepage layout, which shows only a few oversized video thumbnails per row.
Overengineered Anchor Links(thirty-five.com)
378 points by matser | 150 comments
Blog post by Mats Erdkamp exploring the 'active anchor problem' in anchor link navigation and an overengineered solution for headings near the page bottom.
Made a scroll bar buddy that walks down the page when you scroll(focusfurnace.com)
576 points by hello12343214 | 183 comments
A demo page for Scroll Buddy, an animated stick figure that walks up and down the side of a web page in place of a standard scrollbar.
Frosted glass from games to the web(tyleo.com)
712 points by tyleo | 177 comments
A blog post by a former Forza UI developer explaining how to recreate the frosted acrylic glass UI effect from AAA games in HTML and CSS.
Show HN: Konty – A Balsamiq-alternative lo-fi wireframe tool for modern apps(konty.app)
338 points by niklauslee | 124 comments
Landing page for Konty, a desktop app for quickly making hand-drawn style lo-fi wireframes of app ideas, positioned as a Balsamiq alternative.
Toasts are bad UX(maxschmitt.me)
652 points by Mackser | 371 comments
Blog post by Max Schmitt arguing that toast notifications are bad UX because they appear far from where the user's attention is, using YouTube as an example.
What UI density means and how to design for it(matthewstrom.com)
695 points by delaugust | 351 comments
Matthew Ström's essay on what UI density means, why interfaces have become less dense, and how designers can design for density.
Should toggle button show its current state or the state to which it'll change? (2010)(ux.stackexchange.com)
360 points by wscourge | 268 comments
A User Experience Stack Exchange question asking whether a toggle button should display its current state or the state it will switch to.
Why is the mouse cursor slightly tilted and not straight?(ux.stackexchange.com)
414 points by wscourge | 271 comments
A User Experience Stack Exchange question asking why the mouse pointer cursor is tilted rather than straight, and whether it is a legacy design choice.
In loving memory of square checkbox(tonsky.me)
1732 points by kevingadd | 461 comments
Nikita Prokopov's (tonsky) blog post lamenting the loss of the traditional square checkbox design in modern user interfaces.
Modern iOS Navigation Patterns(frankrausch.com)
553 points by felixbraun | 210 comments
Frank Rausch's guide collecting common iOS app navigation patterns like drill-downs, modals, pyramids, and sequences, framed as a bonus chapter to Apple's HIG.