Thanks for coming along on the journey with me exploring the wild world of UI patterns and their place in design systems. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed writing, researching, and sharing everything in this book. My hope is that you’ll come away a sharper digital professional, with a new understanding of UI patterns—recurring solutions to digital interface problems in a context.
Find a pattern you can apply to a given UI problem
Deconstruct patterns to understand them in depth, including their constraints
Build design systems using practical UI patterns
Spot anti-patterns and dark patterns and question design smells
Mix and match patterns and break from convention in the right way
Produce intuitive products through consistency and familiarity
Save time instead of starting from scratch
Communicate design decisions with evidence to support solutions
Use smart defaults without extensive product design experience
Improve your users’ experiences
Scale growing business with design
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Gained an understanding of product design foundations through seeing design processes brought to light, especially as they apply to growing organizations with evolving design systems
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Learned how to fast-track design work via practical examples of patterns for a variety of real-world purposes
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Leveled up the breadth of your skills and understanding through the illumination of user experience design concepts, such as usability, accessibility, microcopy, motion design, and information architecture
Looking to the future
I wanted to write this book to guide motivated, growing web designers. I also wanted to help improve the state of the industry, letting the web community spend more time at the cutting edge instead of reinventing the wheel of proven solutions. If this book has helped you, it would mean the world to me if you reached out to let me know.
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As a community, we can help each other by sharing what we’ve learned along the way. If you and your organization have established a new UI pattern, I invite you to write or speak about it. Share what you’ve learned and how you’ve proven a solution’s effectiveness in your design’s context. Together, we’ll build a better experience for everyone.