UI/UX Design

Overview

An interface is judged on whether a person can accomplish their goal, not on whether it looks finished. Most defects an agent ships are not ugly — they are the states nobody drew, the flow that assumed the happy path, and the label that broke when the data got long.

Two habits below prevent most of them: ship four states per surface, and name tokens for their role.

Navigation

Read the project's or user's own pattern library first, if one exists — a design-references folder, a component gallery, a saved set of screens they like. It encodes taste this file cannot, and it outranks the defaults below wherever the two disagree. With no project library to read, antjanus.com/patterns holds 40 component patterns and antjanus.com/page-designs holds 46 whole-page designs, each with a prompt written to rebuild it without the source.