Smart Interface Design Patterns (40 lessons + live UX training) – 100 Smart Interface Design Patterns & Live Examples. 15h Video + UX Training.

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15h video + live UX training
40 video lessons + 4-weeks UX training.For UI/UX designers and front-end developers.
Inventing a new solution for every problem takes time, and too often it’s just unnecessary. We can rely on bulletproof design patterns to avoid issues down the line. This course helps with just that.
We’ll study 100s of hand-picked examples — from complex navigation to filters, tables and forms. We’ll dive into actual real-life challenges. And: we’ll design and review each other’s work, together, live.
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Chances are high that most of your customers use their mobile devices to access your digital products these days. Let’s see how we use devices and how we need to adjust our workflows for touch.
The workhorse of all interfaces — the good ol’ accordion, or expander. The pattern is everywhere, but too often it’s wrong or inconsistent. Let’s explore common usability traps, gotchas and best practices.
On mobile, we don’t have much space to display our elaborate navigation options. Let’s discover how we can deal with common navigation issues and which design patterns we can apply to do so.
Oh, the infamous hamburger icon! Should it live in the upper right corner or at the bottom of the screen, floating as customers are scrolling and swiping by? Or should we abandon it altogether and use “Menu” instead? Let’s find out.
Barely any website can escape the curse of FAQs. Users have doubts, questions and concerns, and we need to address them effectively. Let’s see how to design slightly better FAQs, their shortcomings and good alternatives.
Do we need mega-dropdown hover menus in 2025? Probably not. Let’s explore things to keep in mind when designing and building a mega-dropdown, alternatives to hover menus and fine details for designing a better navigation UX.
Breadcrumbs UX are often neglected, but they can be extremely helpful when designing a complex navigation. Let’s explore when we actually need breadcrumbs, how people use them, and how to improve them with sideways navigation, clearer breadcrumbs paths and accordions.
It’s common for us as designers to dismiss carousels at first. However, when designed well, carousels can serve their purpose well — drive engagement and increase conversion. We just need to move away from the generic view of a carousel towards approaches that usually work slightly better.
Infinite scroll can be frustrating. In this session, we’ll look into the downsides of infinite scroll and how to fix them for good. We’ll also explore how we can combine infinite scroll, the “load more“ pattern and good ol’ pagination to make the exploration of items easier and more efficient.
Modals, overlays, pop-ups, popovers... they all are disruptive, annoying and frustrating. Yet sometimes they can be very useful, especially when we need user’s input or don’t want users to lose context while informing them about something important.
A wonderful yet forgotten UI component that’s left behind in all the conversations about navigation — the footnote, or sidenote. Too often, these notes are found scattered at the bottom of the page. Perhaps they deserve a slightly better placement after all.
We’ll explore how we search and how we iterate on search phrases, how to refine the interaction design with the search bar, how to show autocomplete suggestions and when to hide them, how many to show and the important details to reveal while users are searching.
When customers have a good idea of what they are looking for, they use search. And as they do, they expect autocomplete suggestions to show up. Let’s find out how we can design autocomplete UX to help customers get to their goal faster.
Too often dealing with filters can be frustrating. Let’s get them right. That means never freeze the UI on a single input, provide text input fallback and never auto-scroll users on a single input. Here’s why.
Sorting always implies order: be it alphabetical order, timeline, pricing or rating score. But too often sorting isn’t precise enough, doesn’t allow for multi-sorting, and doesn’s support context jumps in a stream of data. Let’s see how we can improve sorting UX, in consumer-focused websites and enterprise apps.
How do we deal with complex enterprise tables, with filtering, sorting, search and inline editing? A deep-dive into the intricate world of complex tables, with design patterns to keep close.
Chances are high that you’re allowing your customers to select one of the options or variations of your product. However, to choose one of them, they need to be able to compare them easily. And your task is to quickly bring them to the product they will love. How do we get there, especially when we have hundreds of features to compare by?
How do we design a pricing page that doesn’t overwhelm users with all the options, features and variants? How do we communicate differences? And how do we organize everything on tiny mobile screens? That’s exactly the questions that this lesson is trying to answer.
How do we design interfaces for products which involve some sort of a schedule table — a TV guide, a multi-track music festival or an appointment calendar? We need to reduce complexity to the essence and allow users to navigate all the details without overwhelming them. Let’s figure out how.
No date picker is like the other one: they come in various forms and flavors, from date input to date range picker, at times with filters, requirements and input limitations. How can we make date input easy and painless? We’ll dive in and explore dozens of examples.
Imagine a helpless little slider masked as a duration filter and tucked away in a sidebar on an airline website. So often such sliders are difficult to manipulate, and too often they frustrate customers and slow down the entire experience. Let’s find out when it makes sense to employ sliders, and how we can make them more usable.
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