Design Everyday Things
by wondelaic172996495beMIT2.3K starsListed Oct 8, 2026Updated Oct 8, 2026Repository updated 4 weeks ago
Apply 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.
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| references/affordances.md | 12.9 KB | text/markdown |
| references/case-studies.md | 15.9 KB | text/markdown |
| references/conceptual-models.md | 15.7 KB | text/markdown |
| references/constraints.md | 13.6 KB | text/markdown |
| references/feedback.md | 15.2 KB | text/markdown |
| references/human-error.md | 15.9 KB | text/markdown |
| references/mappings.md | 13.4 KB | text/markdown |
| references/seven-stages.md | 14.7 KB | text/markdown |
| references/signifiers.md | 13.8 KB | text/markdown |
| references/two-gulfs.md | 12 KB | text/markdown |
| SKILL.md | 15.6 KB | text/markdown |
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