Learn UI Design in 15 Minutes a Week
Each week, we analyze the top UI patterns and the latest design trends from the 🔥 hottest mobile and web apps, and we turn them into actionable 🍲 UI Recipes for designing specific user tasks.
We do the research
You do the design
Proper design research requires downloading and using lots of apps, looking at hundreds of UI patterns, and staying up to speed with the latest design trends.
And we know how much time this takes, because we do it on a regular basis for our own design work.
For each user task (sign-up, search, filtering, onboarding, etc.), we collect hundreds of screenshots from the most popular apps, reverse
We believe that sharing our findings and guidelines in the form of UI recipes will help non-designers learn UX best practices from the top apps out there, and will save designers and product managers the time required to do the same research and analysis that we did, so they can just focus on designing the best apps.
We are also building a searchable online database of top app patterns, latest design trends and downloadable UI recipes, and a Sketch plugin to access and insert them directly from within the app.
This Week's UI Recipe
Mobile Search
New Recipe every Wednesday at 10 am PST
User Task
Enable users to find a specific item in a large data set. Users either know the exact keyword that matches what they are looking for, or a vague idea about what they want to find.Design Requirements
Search function
Present users with a search function that enables them to find one or more items.Input modalities
Enable users to use various input mechanisms (text, voice, photo), to make the search function easier to use in different contexts, and to enhance accessibility.Recommendation
Provide users with trending searches, popular categories and recommended results.Acceleration
Accelerate user's search by providing a list of recent searches, and by automatically completing the search term as the user types, based on previous queries from other users.Refinement
Help users refine and filter their search results by category, before, during, or after users input their search termFeaturing UI Patterns from:
And Design Trends like:
Ingredients in this week's recipe include:
- Text, voice and camera input
- Recent searches
- Trending searches
- Search categories
- Search recommendations
Meet The 👨🍳 UI Chefs
Amir Khella
I am an product designer, entrepreneur, and startup advisor. Over the past decade, I've created and launched several profitable products with more than 100,000 customers. I've also helped dozens of companies design and launch their own products, five of which have already been acquired.
Sam Wan
I am a product manager and UX designer. For the past two decades, I worked in research, design, and engineering of software products in all shapes and sizes. I am also the primary inventor on several patents awarded for work at Microsoft and Adobe on design tools and user interface frameworks.