The words interfaces are made of.
A linked dictionary of design and UI vocabulary: every term with a live specimen, its aliases, and the concepts it contrasts with. Working with AI agents is mostly about knowing the vocabulary; here is where you learn to say exactly what you mean.
1057 terms · 3866 aliases · 23 facets · a specimen on every page
By category
browse everything →- component196 terms
A named piece of interface you can point at, place, and reuse.
- layout137 terms
How a page arranges its regions, and what governs the arrangement.
- pattern131 terms
A recurring answer to a recurring problem, larger than any one component.
- interaction76 terms
What a reader does, and how the interface answers.
- motion98 terms
Change over time, and the vocabulary for describing it.
- typography116 terms
Type, and the measurements and conventions that set it.
- color85 terms
Colour as a system: palettes, roles, contrast, and schemes.
- aesthetic84 terms
A named visual style, with a period and a set of moves.
- accessibility134 terms
Terms that exist so an interface works for everyone.
Other ways in
- Facets23
The groupings that cut across categories: forms, touch, scroll, theming and the rest.
- Search
Full text over every term and article, for when you only half know the word and can describe the thing.
- Glossary4923
A to Z, every term and every alias, because the alias is usually the word you arrived with.
For agents
The whole dictionary is machine-readable: terms.json carries every term, alias and relation as data, llms.txt is the same collection as prose, and every term page has a.md twin at /{slug}.md.