In Product Design, “affordances” are the signals that communicate what actions you can take. Used well, the experience is effortless. Used poorly, it's broken.

Test your product screens by dropping a product screen into with this prompt. The text lives at:

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Size Matters.

When building products, mastering the use of hierarchy allows you to direct user attention to the elements that matter most.

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Progress is a hell of a drug.

Loving the information design here.

Progress is a hell of a drug.

When people get closer to a goal, they work harder to finish it.

When designing your product, if you need people to finish, show them they’re getting closer to the goal.

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Memphis style is chaotic, colorful, and unapologetically weird. It rejects good taste on purpose, using clashing patterns and bold shapes to create energy and personality. This is Pee Wee's playhouse of digital design.

Style: Bento

Bento style organizes content into clearly separated, modular containers that feel intentional and scannable. It emphasizes clarity and balance while still allowing visual richness within each section.

Used most notably as a core of the Apple Keynote Slides.

Style: Japandi

Japandi blends Japanese minimalism with Scandinavian warmth and restraint. It emphasizes calm layouts, natural materials, and quiet confidence.

Style: 8-bit pixel

8-bit pixel art is constrained by low resolution and visible pixels. It leans into nostalgia and limitations as a stylistic choice rather than a technical one.

Style: Art Deco

Art Deco is a decorative style rooted in symmetry, luxury, and strong geometric forms. In interfaces it shows up as structured layouts, sharp lines, and a sense of confidence and polish.

Style: Retro-futurism

Retro-futurism imagines the future as people in the past once
did, blending outdated technology with optimistic, sci-fi aesthetics. It often feels playful and speculative, using chrome, bold geometry, and nostalgic visions of progress.

Changed the styling from "vibe code blue" to a neo-brutalist with a Mondrian color palette with a single prompt in Gemini 3

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The best way for users to avoid errors is to stop them in the first place - learn some actionable tactics on how to do that

Our next edition will be on Error Prevention - coming 12/22

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An affordance is a design element’s built-in suggestion about how it should be used. A design element, object, or interface should signal what actions you can take with it.

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The principle of Common Region says that elements inside a defined boundary are perceived as belonging together.

By defining clear regions, users quickly understand structure, relationships, and context within an interface, reducing cognitive load and improving scan-ability.

D: Doherty Threshold — Designing for Instant Response
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