DoP Deep: New UX patterns and interactions
Inspiration and examples from YouTube, Miro, Spotify, Threads, Apple, Arc, Goodnotes, Atlassian and more
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Hi product people 👋,
The rise of AI-infused products has encouraged teams to take bolder, creative risks. When nobody really knows what the future looks like, it’s much harder to cling on to outdated concepts of ‘best practices’ and much easier to take a punt on ideas that might have seemed a little too risky in the past.
And it’s this newfound confidence and increased risk appetite from leadership teams that has led to the recent roll out of innovative new UX features and design patterns.
In this DoP Deep dive, we’ll explore some of the ways product teams at top tier companies like YouTube, Meta, Miro, Google Docs, Atlassian and others are taking bolder risks in their UX.
Using new UX patterns and interactions including prompt bundling, generative UI, pinch to summarise, smart categorization and more, we’ve hand picked some of the innovative new UX patterns and interactions deployed by top product design teams so that you’re up to speed with the various new UX / design patterns - and how to use them in your own product.
Coming up:
How pinching is used to summarize, click and other use cases
Swipes, circles and annotations - examples from Google and Threads
Generative UI explained - is it the future?
Prompt bundling, scrolljacking and smart categorization
Instagram’s new social blending feature
Important considerations before implementing new UX patterns
The full list of new UX / interaction patterns and features - with links to each one
How the UI of top tier tech companies is evolving
Here’s a brief snapshot of some of the new UX design patterns and features that have recently been shipped by top tier tech companies. Some of these leverage AI and wouldn’t be possible without it but others are examples of how companies are seemingly more willing to take risks.
Right now it feels as though companies are more willing than ever to try out new UI patterns - and this spans across both software and hardware, too. More on that later.
This is a preview of all of the new features and patterns we’ve handpicked to highlight for this edition. The full list is available at the end of this post with direct links to examples for each of the new patterns.
Pinch to summarize, pinch to click
Companies: Arc, Humane, Apple
Historically, the pinch on mobile devices has been used to zoom in on photographs and not much else. Now, the interaction is being embraced by other companies who want to use it for use cases beyond zooming.