Fixing Frustrating Design Patterns For 2025
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- Vitaly Friedman
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Workshop includes:
- 🔖 Actionable insights
- 🍎 Reference examples
- 🎤 Dedicated Q&A time
Free Workshop, 3h + Q&A • Wed, February 12 2025
09:00 – 11:30 AM PT • 18:00 – 20:30 CET • Check your time zone ⏰
Frustrating design patterns are everywehere! Not a day passes by without painful fire hydrant puzzles, inaccessible navigation menus, confusing Cancel/X buttons, disabled copy-paste, rigorous password requirements, deceptive progress indicators and unreadable charts. They confuse and disrupt people, but they are also remarkably expensive for businesses — often dismissed, overlooked, ignored.
In this workshop, we’ll take a closer look at some frustrating design patterns and explore effective alternatives — to improve UX and accessibility, but also help businesses save on costs and increase revenue.
Here’s What You Should Be Expecting:
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Interactive live session
A free, 3h-long live session
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Practical insights
From psychology to design patterns
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Do’s and Don’ts
Good and not so good examples
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Dedicated Q&A time
To ask all your questions!
Free!
With all video recordings &
slides.
The insights in this workshop are coming from usability tests and user research conducted by yours truly or our colleagues in the community. You’ll walk away with a toolbox of techniques that you’ll be able to apply to your projects right away.
In this session, we’ll explore:
- Where users struggle and what they sincerely appreciate in 2025,
- How to write better to help people scan content better,
- How to avoid confusion with Cancel/X/Back buttons,
- How to deal with Back buttons and Continue buttons,
- How to design for higher conversion,
- How to design better navigation menus for hover and tap/click
- How to better ask people for their email address,
- How to design better authentication and error messages UX,
- How to design better 2-page-login (for Single-Sign-On),
- How to improve progress indicators and complex forms,
- How to make infinite scroll less painful and more helpful,
- How to design better charts and dashboards UX
Free!
With all video recordings &
slides.
Who is this session for?
This session is for product and interface designers, UX designers, front-end designers and developers who’d like to explore better ways of asking the right questions.
About Vitaly Friedman
Vitaly Friedman loves beautiful content and doesn’t like to give in easily. When he is not writing, he’s most probably running front-end & UX workshops. He loves solving complex UX challenges and front-end problems. He also runs Smart Interface Design Patterns, a video course and live UX training for passionate UX and interface designers.
Vitaly is the author, co-author and editor of Smashing books, and a curator of Smashing Conferences. He is creative lead of Smashing Magazine and has been working with the European Parliament, Haufe-Lexware, Axel-Springer and a few other small and large companies.
Schedule
8:45 AM PT
Virtual doors open, registration, chat and introductions.
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
We’ll be exploring common frustrating design patterns and offer better alternatives, backed by real usability tests and user research. You’ll leave with practical tips and checklists to improve your own projects immediately.
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Q&A with Vitaly. Networking!
What hardware/software do you need?
To view the webinars, please install the Zoom client for Meetings, which is available for all the main OSs. It may take a little time to download and install, so please grab it ahead of time if you can.
Free!
With all video recordings &
slides.