Agent plan preview
An AI agent or automation can show a proposed multi-step plan before execution.
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Open in lab Patterns
298 entries grouped by the interaction problem they help solve.
AI And Automation UX
23 entriesAgent progress trace
An agent or automation run has started and spans multiple steps, tools, gates, or side effects.
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Open in lab AI agent acts without approval
An AI agent or automation can create side effects that affect customers, money, access, production systems, legal status, public content, sensitive data, or external recipients.
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Open in lab AI answer without sources
A generated answer makes source-dependent claims but no source route is visible.
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Open in lab AI confidence shown as fake precision
An AI product displays model certainty, extraction confidence, recommendation score, classifier probability, generated-answer confidence, retrieval rank, or risk score with precision the system cannot justify.
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Open in lab AI limitation onboarding
A user is introduced to an AI feature whose abilities, limits, data scope, uncertainty, or review needs are not obvious from the normal interface.
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Open in lab AI output audit trail
A generated AI output can influence compliance, customer communication, security, legal, finance, operations, code, policy, or other high-trust work.
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Open in lab Automation rule builder
Users need to create or edit automations that run later based on events, conditions, schedules, or record changes.
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Open in lab Chat interface
The user needs a back-and-forth assistant conversation with follow-up questions and answer refinement.
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Open in lab Citation display
Users need to verify generated claims, summaries, recommendations, or extracted facts against source material.
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Open in lab Confidence / uncertainty display
Users must judge whether an AI prediction, classification, recommendation, extraction, risk score, or generated answer is reliable enough to use.
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Open in lab Correction feedback
Users can identify wrong, unsupported, stale, unsafe, biased, irrelevant, or wrongly sourced AI output after it is generated.
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Open in lab Editable AI output
Generated content is expected to be revised before it is copied, saved, sent, published, or applied.
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Open in lab Escalate to human
Users need a person because AI, automation, self-service, or scripted support cannot resolve the situation safely or acceptably.
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Open in lab Human approval gate
An AI agent, workflow, deployment, or automation is ready to perform a high-impact step and must pause for human authorization.
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Open in lab Model update notice
A model version, provider, lifecycle stage, availability, behavior, or replacement plan changes in a way users may need to understand or act on.
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Open in lab Prompt box
Users must write or revise an AI request before generation, analysis, transformation, or automation begins.
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Open in lab Prompt suggestions
The AI surface supports open-ended requests and users need examples of useful, supported tasks.
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Open in lab Regenerate / retry
A user needs another AI-generated answer for the same request or a visible recovery path after response failure.
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Open in lab Scope clarification
A user's AI request has missing object, audience, timeframe, source, workspace, permission, output-depth, or action-target boundaries.
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Open in lab Source grounding display
Users need answer-wide evidence coverage before trusting generated content.
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Open in lab Streaming response
Generated text or structured content can be read or monitored before completion.
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Open in lab Tool-use visibility
An AI agent or automation calls tools, functions, APIs, retrieval systems, commands, or integrations.
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Open in lab Collaboration And Social Interaction
12 entriesActivity feed
Users need to catch up on recent collaboration, app, repository, channel, project, meeting, reminder, or task activity.
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Open in lab Change review
Users inspect and decide on proposed edits, tracked changes, code suggestions, file diffs, or document redlines.
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Open in lab Comments
Users need object-attached discussion without changing the primary object content directly.
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Open in lab Follow / subscribe
Users need future updates from a specific object, thread, channel, space, repository, topic, saved view, or query.
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Open in lab Handoff summary
Responsibility, context, or conversation control transfers to another person, team, queue, shift, AI agent, live agent, or system.
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Open in lab Invite user
An authorized user needs to bring another person into a workspace, organization, project, channel, repository, team, tenant, or shared object.
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Open in lab Live cursors
Collaborators need real-time spatial awareness in a shared visual or text surface.
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Open in lab Mentions
Composed content needs to target people or groups inline.
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Open in lab Presence
Users need to understand current or recent availability before messaging, calling, assigning, routing, or joining.
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Open in lab Reactions
Users need quick, lightweight feedback on an existing message, comment, issue, document selection, or work item.
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Open in lab Share dialog
A user needs to share one object or a small set of selected objects with people, groups, domains, links, or device targets.
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Open in lab Threaded discussion
A topic or parent message can generate multiple reply branches that users need to follow over time.
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Open in lab Cross-Device And Physical Interaction
15 entriesCamera capture
Users need to create new photo or video media inside the task.
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Open in lab Drag and drop
Users need spatial or ordered movement between clear sources and destinations.
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Open in lab Focus traversal
A workflow has multiple focusable elements, dynamic content, or overlays that users traverse with keyboard or assistive technology.
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Open in lab Haptic feedback
A tactile pulse reinforces a direct manipulation, boundary, threshold, selection, successful action, recoverable warning, or physical game/control event.
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Open in lab Keyboard shortcut
Users repeat a known command often enough that memorized keyboard acceleration saves meaningful time.
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Open in lab Location permission flow
Current device coordinates materially improve a task such as nearby search, route start, check-in, delivery estimate, safety sharing, field work, or support diagnostics.
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Open in lab Long press
A touch-first interface needs an optional shortcut to secondary item actions, selection mode, preview, or drag pickup.
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Open in lab Offline mobile retry
A mobile user action can be saved locally and retried after network or app lifecycle conditions improve.
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Open in lab Pull to refresh
A top-of-list gesture is a platform-expected shortcut for checking freshness on a scrollable data surface.
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Open in lab QR scan
Users need to decode a QR or barcode to pair a device, open a known destination, redeem a ticket, start payment, enroll an authenticator, join Wi-Fi, identify inventory, or import a short payload.
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Open in lab Responsive navigation adaptation
A product supports multiple viewport widths, device classes, orientations, split-screen sizes, or foldable postures.
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Open in lab Swipe action
Users repeatedly perform simple item-level actions on touch-first rows.
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Open in lab Touch gesture
A touchscreen interaction needs deliberate design for gesture vocabulary, thresholds, feedback, target sizing, cancellation, and equivalent controls.
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Open in lab Voice command
Users need hands-free control, accessibility speech input, or rapid spoken command activation.
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Open in lab Wearable glance
A wearable surface can answer a status, next-step, or current-metric question in seconds.
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Open in lab Data Display And Exploration
23 entriesActivity log
Users need to inspect recorded user, admin, system, security, or integration events.
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Open in lab Calendar view
Users need to scan or manage scheduled events across dates, days, weeks, months, or resources.
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Open in lab Card grid
Users browse peer objects where visual preview, compact identity, and quick first-pass selection matter.
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Open in lab Card list
Users need to browse rich object summaries with preview, summary text, metadata, status, and actions.
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Open in lab Chart drilldown
Users need to investigate an aggregate chart mark by moving to the next planned level of a hierarchy.
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Open in lab Collection
Users need to save, curate, share, revisit, sequence, or maintain explicit items as a meaningful set.
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Open in lab Compare view
Users need to choose among similar offerings using multiple comparable attributes.
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Open in lab Dashboard layout
Users need to monitor several related metrics, exceptions, and analyses together.
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Open in lab Data grid
Users repeatedly inspect or update many records in shared columns.
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Open in lab Data visualization
Users need to see trends, comparisons, rankings, distributions, relationships, composition, anomalies, or uncertainty.
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Open in lab Expandable row
A row has supplemental detail that is useful for some records but would make the default table or list too dense.
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Open in lab Feed
Users consume a continuing stream of updates, posts, stories, comments, media, or collaboration activity.
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Open in lab Kanban board
Work progresses through visible stages and the team uses the board to decide what to pull next.
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Open in lab List view
Users need to scan and act on a collection of objects using compact summaries.
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Open in lab Map view
Users choose or inspect objects by where they are, how near they are, or what area they fall inside.
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Open in lab Master-detail
Users repeatedly choose items from a collection and work with a substantial detail destination.
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Open in lab Saved view
Users repeatedly return to a specific presentation of a changing data set.
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Open in lab Summary box
A longer page has a small set of key facts or next steps that users need early.
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Open in lab Table
Records share comparable attributes that users need to scan in aligned columns.
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Open in lab Tag / status tag
A compact category, state, phase, freshness marker, priority, or count helps users scan a group of objects.
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Open in lab Timeline
Users need a chronological record of important events for one object, case, order, application, or process.
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Open in lab Tree grid
Rows have real parent-child hierarchy and shared comparable columns.
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Open in lab Window splitter
Users need to compare, edit, inspect, or preview adjacent panes in one durable workspace.
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Open in lab Disclosure And Attention Management
21 entriesAccordion
A page has several related sections and users do not need all details visible at once.
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Open in lab Alert dialog
An urgent current-workflow condition requires acknowledgement, cancellation, retry, sign-out, review, or another explicit response before continuation.
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Open in lab Bottom sheet
Mobile users need extra contextual detail or controls while staying oriented to a map, feed, route, media item, or selected object.
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Open in lab Carousel auto-advance without pause
Use this anti-pattern entry to audit or reject timed carousels that cannot provide immediate pause, stop, focus, hover, reduced-motion, and interaction-stability behavior.
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Open in lab Context menu
Objects or selections have secondary commands that experienced users expect near the target.
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Open in lab Details panel
Users repeatedly inspect selected records, tickets, alerts, files, assets, tasks, comments, or locations while staying in a work surface.
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Open in lab Disclosure / details
One short supporting explanation belongs in place beside the content it clarifies.
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Open in lab Drawer
Users need to inspect object detail, metadata, comments, history, or light actions while staying on the current page.
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Open in lab Drawer with no close or return path
Use this anti-pattern to review temporary drawers, inspectors, side sheets, and mobile drawer layouts for missing close and return behavior.
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Open in lab Full-screen takeover
A temporary task needs the whole viewport for capture, immersive preview, focused setup, scanning, or dense editing.
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Open in lab Hover card
Users need to inspect object metadata before choosing whether to open a link, mention, file, row, issue, or reference.
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Open in lab Icon-only ambiguous action
Use this anti-pattern entry to audit toolbars, row actions, cards, command bars, mobile action sheets, and generated UIs with symbol-only controls.
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Open in lab Menu button
A local object or toolbar has three to eight secondary commands.
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Open in lab Modal dialog
A short task must interrupt normal page interaction but should return users to the same context afterward.
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Open in lab Modal for nonblocking content
Use this anti-pattern to review informational dialogs, help popups, status popups, release-note prompts, marketing modals, and preview modals that interrupt work without a required decision.
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Open in lab Popover
A local control needs brief explanatory content or light editing while page context remains visible.
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Open in lab Preview panel
Users repeatedly inspect files, messages, PDFs, images, videos, audio, invoices, contracts, designs, or attachments from a list or grid.
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Open in lab Progressive disclosure
The default task has a safe recommended path for most users.
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Open in lab Sheet
A user starts a short context-bound task that needs more room than a dialog but should not become a full page.
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Open in lab Tooltip
A compact control needs a brief supplemental explanation.
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Open in lab Tooltip-only required information
Use this anti-pattern entry to review forms, checkout, applications, settings, data tables, eligibility flows, upload flows, and disabled actions where required information is hidden in a tooltip.
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Open in lab Error Prevention And Recovery
23 entriesAmbiguous destructive action copy
Auditing destructive dialogs, action sheets, menu items, command palette actions, delete receipts, account cancellation flows, permission revocation, bulk actions, and high-impact execution reviews.
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Open in lab Autosave recovery
Autosave failed, stalled, expired, or became uncertain while users still have meaningful local work.
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Open in lab Confirmation dialog
The action is destructive, irreversible, costly, security-sensitive, privacy-affecting, or externally visible.
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Open in lab Confirmation fatigue
Use this anti-pattern entry to audit products that ask for confirmation on many routine actions or use identical prompts for different levels of risk.
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Open in lab Conflict resolution
A conflict has been detected and a user must choose, merge, save-copy, skip, or commit a result.
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Open in lab Destructive action confirmation
A user has initiated a destructive command that can permanently remove, revoke, reset, deactivate, or cancel something valuable.
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Open in lab Disabled controls without recovery
Auditing disabled primary actions, toolbar commands, menu items, toggles, form controls, checkout actions, invite flows, publish controls, exports, destructive actions, and workflow steps.
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Open in lab Error summary
Form submission can produce one or more errors.
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Open in lab Exit warning
Users have unsaved or pending changes that cannot be recovered if they leave.
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Open in lab Fake undo
Use this anti-pattern entry to audit products that show Undo, Restore, Revert, or rollback controls without proving exact reversal.
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Open in lab Fallback path
A primary lookup, verification, upload, payment, search, device feature, online-only step, or channel can fail while the user still needs to finish.
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Open in lab Graceful degradation
A richer UI control, script, API, media layer, device capability, or third-party widget improves the task but is not essential to the outcome.
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Open in lab Merge conflict resolver
A pull request, merge request, rebase, merge, or branch update has source-code conflicts that require developer decisions.
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Open in lab Permission recovery
A denied user can request access, switch accounts, ask an admin, join a group, or use a safe fallback to continue.
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Open in lab Redo
Users perform reversible sequences of edits and can undo too far.
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Open in lab Restore from trash
Deleted objects remain recoverable after the user leaves the original workflow.
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Open in lab Retry
A load, save, submit, upload, export, sync, payment, or background request failed for a transient or uncertain reason.
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Open in lab Session timeout warning
An authenticated session can expire because of inactivity, overall lifetime, assurance policy, or reauthentication requirement.
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Open in lab Typed confirmation
A severe action affects repository, project, workspace, account, production, security, billing, or organization-wide scope.
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Open in lab Undo
The action is common and mistakes are likely.
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Open in lab Unsaved changes prompt
A close, cancel, switch, or edit-mode exit would discard unsaved local changes.
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Open in lab Validation that clears user input
Use this anti-pattern entry to audit forms, editors, imports, checkouts, onboarding flows, and configuration screens where validation can erase recoverable user work.
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Open in lab Version history
Users edit documents, files, pages, design files, records, configurations, or published content over time.
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Open in lab Feedback, Status, And System State
30 entriesAlert
A current task has a time-sensitive warning, error, or important status change.
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Open in lab Banner
The message applies across several pages, routes, sections, records, or sessions.
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Open in lab Confirmation page
A transaction or service journey has ended and users need durable proof plus next-step information.
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Open in lab Conflict state
Concurrent users, devices, branches, or background jobs changed the same object or location.
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Open in lab Cookie banner
The service sets non-essential cookies or similar device storage technologies.
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Open in lab Dead-end empty state
Auditing generated UIs, dashboards, tables, lists, or panels for blank states that strand users.
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Open in lab Disabled button with no explanation
Use this anti-pattern entry to audit disabled submit, continue, create, save, delete, publish, invite, export, payment, and setup actions.
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Open in lab Empty state
The product area can legitimately contain no user data.
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Open in lab Error state
A system or task failure blocks expected content or action.
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Open in lab Infinite spinner
Use this anti-pattern entry to audit loading, saving, syncing, uploading, report generation, billing retrieval, AI generation, and import flows that can hang.
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Open in lab Inline message
A visible object or section has local status, warning, success, or next-step information.
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Open in lab Loading skeleton
The content shape is predictable.
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Open in lab Loading spinner
A short action, request, save, submit, refresh, sync, or fetch is actively processing and progress cannot be meaningfully measured.
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Open in lab Meter
A current value exists inside a meaningful known range.
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Open in lab Notification banner
A message should be encountered before the page H1 but is not the page's main task content.
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Open in lab Notification center
Users receive multiple asynchronous updates across objects, jobs, collaborators, approvals, or reminders.
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Open in lab Offline state
Connection loss or server reachability changes the user's current task.
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Open in lab Page not found page
A route, URL, public page, file, object link, or deep link cannot be found.
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Open in lab Permission denied state
A signed-in user lacks permission to view, edit, publish, export, delete, approve, share, administer, or configure a resource.
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Open in lab Phase / beta banner
A service is in alpha, private beta, public beta, or another explicit pre-live phase.
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Open in lab Progress bar
A system operation has a measurable total or bounded progress value.
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Open in lab Service unavailable page
A whole service, transaction entry point, or route is closed or not ready to handle requests.
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Open in lab Site alert
Urgent public, safety, operating-status, outage, closure, or availability information applies to the whole site or service.
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Open in lab Step progress
A workflow has several named stages and users need to understand current, completed, pending, blocked, failed, waiting, or skipped status.
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Open in lab Success confirmation
A user action has completed and users need proof, object identity, or next-step orientation.
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Open in lab Sync state
Local changes, files, messages, uploads, or records need to reconcile with a remote service or another device.
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Open in lab Toast notification
Use for short non-blocking confirmation after explicit actions such as save, copy, send, archive, invite, or queue export.
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Open in lab Toast-only critical error
Use this anti-pattern entry to identify and replace transient-only handling of payment, save, permission, account, upload, deletion, and security failures.
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Open in lab Toast-only success for completed transaction
Use this anti-pattern entry to identify transaction success handled only by transient feedback.
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Open in lab Warning text
A user must understand a serious consequence before taking or skipping an action.
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Open in lab Input And Data Entry
34 entriesAddress entry
The product needs a complete postal, delivery, billing, service, or official contact address.
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Open in lab Autocomplete
The list is long but values are known.
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Open in lab Autosave form
Users spend meaningful time entering form content or application progress.
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Open in lab Bank details
The product needs bank account details to send money, collect money, set up payroll, save payout details, issue refunds, or initiate bank-to-bank payments.
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Open in lab Bulk import
Users need to create, update, or merge many structured records from CSV, XLSX, TSV, copied spreadsheet data, or another system export.
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Open in lab Character count
A legal, editorial, messaging, moderation, or display constraint imposes a clear maximum length.
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Open in lab Complete complex form
A product configuration has many related fields across named sections.
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Open in lab Conditional reveal fields
A selected radio, checkbox, or select option needs one short related follow-up field.
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Open in lab Date input
Users already know the exact date or can look it up easily.
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Open in lab Date picker
Users are scheduling, booking, planning, or selecting a recent or future date.
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Open in lab Date range picker
Users need to select a reporting, analytics, booking, scheduling, campaign, or eligibility period.
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Open in lab Dependent fields
A downstream field's valid values or requirement depend on a previous answer.
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Open in lab Draft state
Users create or edit objects that should not become visible, active, submitted, or externally effective until a later action.
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Open in lab Drag-and-drop upload
Users often upload files from a desktop file manager and benefit from dropping one or more files into a visible target.
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Open in lab Email address entry
The product must capture an email address for contact, receipt, notification, invitation, account identifier, recovery, or verification.
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Open in lab File upload
The service needs a document, image, scan, spreadsheet, media file, or other original file.
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Open in lab Inline edit
Users frequently update one visible value or one row property.
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Open in lab Inline validation
A single field has a specific correctable problem.
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Open in lab Input mask
The value has a stable character pattern and users benefit from live grouping.
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Open in lab Input prefix/suffix
The value has a fixed currency, unit, percentage, domain, or commonly understood icon.
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Open in lab Multi-step form
A transaction spans several ordered pages or sections.
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Open in lab Name entry
The product must capture a person's name for display, correspondence, booking, application, payment, account details, identity matching, support, or official records.
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Open in lab Password creation
The user is creating an account with a reusable password.
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Open in lab Password input
The user needs to enter an existing password, passphrase, or PIN-like memorized secret.
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Open in lab Payment card entry
Users need to pay with a credit, debit, prepaid, or network card.
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Open in lab Phone number entry
The product must capture a phone number for calls, texts, support callbacks, appointment changes, recovery, delivery coordination, verification, or contact records.
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Open in lab Required field hidden by conditional logic
Use this anti-pattern entry to audit forms where conditional logic, validation, saved drafts, or server schemas might require fields that are not visible or reachable.
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Open in lab Review before submit
A user has provided multiple answers and should verify them before a consequential submit action.
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Open in lab Single-page form
A compact set of related fields should be reviewed together before one submit.
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Open in lab Single-question page
One answer or decision should be read and completed without competing form questions.
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Open in lab Text input
The answer is short and user-authored.
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Open in lab Textarea
Users need to write sentences, paragraphs, comments, explanations, notes, or descriptions.
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Open in lab Time picker
Users choose appointment, meeting, delivery, pickup, reminder, or service times.
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Open in lab Wizard
A setup, import, object creation, or configuration task has strict sequencing.
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Open in lab Personalization And Preference
12 entriesAdaptive defaults
Users repeatedly choose similar values and the product can explain a likely starting value from current context or prior behavior.
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Open in lab Custom dashboard
Users have different monitoring priorities and need a persistent personal or role-based dashboard arrangement.
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Open in lab Favorites
Users need to mark preferred or personally important objects for later return.
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Open in lab Language selector
The product or site offers current content, task flows, or interface text in more than one language.
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Open in lab Notification preferences
Users receive enough notifications that they need control over type, channel, device, frequency, timing, or source.
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Open in lab Pinned items
Users need stable quick access to a small set of known high-priority objects.
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Open in lab Preference center
Users need to revisit and change communication, consent, topic, personalization, privacy, channel, language, or data-sharing choices.
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Open in lab Recently used
Users repeatedly operate a broad set of tools, files, commands, apps, workspaces, or tasks.
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Open in lab Recommended next action
Users are working in a record, case, conversation, or workflow where choosing the next action is costly or error-prone.
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Open in lab Settings page
A product has multiple settings sections and users need a durable destination to find the right area.
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Open in lab User-controlled density
Users need to switch between scanning many records and reading or editing with more space.
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Open in lab User-controlled layout
Users work with multiple panes or regions around one active task and need different arrangements for comparison, editing, reading, or focus.
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Open in lab Search, Browse, And Discovery
20 entriesAdvanced search
Expert or repeat users need precise retrieval across fields, operators, phrases, dates, ranges, exclusions, functions, or prior search history.
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Open in lab Basic search
Users know a word, name, or identifier.
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Open in lab Browse by category
Users are exploring a broad catalog, service directory, help center, learning library, product collection, or content repository.
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Open in lab Faceted search
The data set has structured attributes users understand.
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Open in lab Filter chips
A few common filters should stay visible and directly toggleable near the content.
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Open in lab Filter panel
Users need to narrow the current search results, browse results, table, card grid, or list by multiple criteria.
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Open in lab Filter reset that clears unrelated search
Use this anti-pattern to review search result pages, list filters, dashboard filters, saved filters, saved searches, mobile filter drawers, no-results recovery, and generated clear/reset actions.
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Open in lab Infinite scroll with no footer access
Use this anti-pattern to review feeds, search results, product grids, media streams, activity streams, catalogs, and generated infinite-scroll pages.
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Open in lab No-results recovery
Search, browse, or filter controls can produce an empty result set.
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Open in lab Query correction
Users submit free-form searches where spelling and typing mistakes commonly block useful results.
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Open in lab Recently searched
Users revisit a search surface and benefit from rerunning recent query wording.
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Open in lab Recommendations
Users need discovery help in a large item, product, content, service, or action space.
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Open in lab Saved filter
Users repeatedly need the same filter criteria on a list, table, board, queue, base view, or dashboard.
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Open in lab Saved search
Users repeat the same search criteria across sessions or operational cycles.
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Open in lab Search history
Search activity persists beyond the current session and users need to inspect or control it.
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Open in lab Search result highlighting
Results contain enough text that users need to scan for where the query matched.
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Open in lab Search scope selector
The same query can search different repositories, sites, workspaces, spaces, channels, result types, teams, or organization-wide indexes.
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Open in lab Search suggestions
The system can predict likely queries.
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Open in lab Sort controls
Users need to compare or act on a result set in different orders.
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Open in lab Typeahead
Users search large datasets and benefit from seeing result hits before full submit.
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Open in lab Selection And Choice
20 entriesAction menu
A resource, row, card, selected set, or local page object has several contextual commands.
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Open in lab Action sheet
A user-initiated action has a few immediate valid outcomes.
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Open in lab Button group
A form, dialog, panel, card, or workflow footer needs two to four related visible commands.
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Open in lab Checkbox group
Users can choose zero, one, or many options.
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Open in lab Chip selection
Users answer a lightweight choice question from a small set of short labels.
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Open in lab Combobox
Users choose one value from a large, dynamic, or filterable option set.
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Open in lab Inaccessible custom select
Use this anti-pattern entry to audit custom dropdowns, styled select replacements, portal menus, command-palette-like selectors, and generated UIs that imitate native controls.
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Open in lab Listbox
Users choose one option from a visible static list.
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Open in lab Menu / menubar
A complex application or editor has many stable commands organized into known groups.
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Open in lab Multi-select
Users choose many values from a long predefined list.
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Open in lab Object picker
Users assign, link, reference, invite, route, or attach an existing entity.
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Open in lab Radio group
Users must choose exactly one option.
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Open in lab Range slider
Users need a lower and upper bound on one numeric scale.
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Open in lab Segmented control
There are a few mutually exclusive modes.
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Open in lab Select
The user chooses one option from a moderate known list.
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Open in lab Slider
Users adjust one bounded value such as brightness, volume, opacity, zoom, intensity, cost tolerance, or preference strength.
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Open in lab Spinbutton / numeric stepper
Users adjust a small bounded count such as guests, copies, items, seats, nights, minutes, retries, or quantity.
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Open in lab Toggle switch
A single setting, feature, preference, or hardware-like control has two clear states.
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Open in lab Transfer list
Users build a selected set by moving items from an available collection to a selected collection.
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Open in lab Tree selection
Users choose one or more values from a meaningful hierarchy.
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Open in lab Task And Workflow Patterns
23 entriesAccount creation
Users need to save and resume drafts, regularly update their data, manage records, check ongoing status, collaborate, or protect repeated access.
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Open in lab Approval workflow
A submitted request needs authorized approval before a deployment, purchase, access grant, publication, content change, policy exception, financial action, or workflow step can proceed.
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Open in lab Assignment
A user must set, change, or clear who is accountable for a work item.
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Open in lab Booking
Users reserve an offered appointment, service, class, room, resource, seat, table, pickup window, or visit.
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Open in lab Checkout
A user is ready to purchase selected items, services, tickets, subscriptions, donations, or orderable options.
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Open in lab Complete multiple tasks
A transaction has several meaningful sections or tasks and progress is saved.
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Open in lab Confirm email
A user must prove access to a mailbox before account activation, invitation acceptance, recovery eligibility, or sensitive notifications.
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Open in lab Confirm phone
A captured phone number must be proven reachable before activation, contact-route reliance, recovery eligibility, phone-number change, or a sensitive action continues.
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Open in lab Create user profile
Users need to create a visible profile for collaboration, community, directory, marketplace, public contribution, support, or social interaction.
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Open in lab Login
Users have submitted credentials or authenticator output and need a safe verification result.
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Open in lab Onboarding
New users need orientation, setup, personalization, or instruction before the regular interface can deliver value.
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Open in lab Password reset
Users need to recover an account because the existing password is forgotten, suspected compromised, or unusable.
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Open in lab Payment collection
The user must pay a known fee, invoice, balance, application charge, renewal, subscription, donation, deposit, or service amount.
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Open in lab Profile setup
Users already have an account or profile and need guided help to complete, review, enrich, or update it.
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Open in lab Publish workflow
Users need to make content, products, pages, releases, site changes, campaigns, or configuration visible to an audience.
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Open in lab Review queue
A team or individual repeatedly reviews many independently queued items.
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Open in lab Scheduling
Users coordinate time across people, resources, calendars, availability, or recurrence.
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Open in lab Settings management
Users need to inspect and change persistent app, account, workspace, privacy, notification, display, integration, device, or system behavior.
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Open in lab Sign in
Users need to access an existing account or protected destination.
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Open in lab Start page
A user is about to start one named service, transaction, booking, application, check, request, or registration.
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Open in lab Task list
A page needs to display a known set of tasks with status and links to start or resume them.
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Open in lab Toolbar
A view, editor, canvas, media surface, table, or selection needs repeated related commands close to the work area.
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Open in lab Two-factor authentication
A sign-in, new device, risk signal, or sensitive action requires proof beyond the primary credential.
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Open in lab Trust, Safety, And Privacy
21 entriesAge gate
Age or age band controls whether users may access content, features, commerce, community interaction, personalization, or data collection.
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Open in lab Audit log
The product must support security investigations, compliance review, legal discovery, privileged-action review, or enterprise governance.
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Open in lab Block / mute
Users need to reduce exposure to a person, account, conversation, channel, app, bot, word, topic, or thread.
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Open in lab Consent prompt
The product needs a user's active agreement for optional data use, marketing, research participation, personalization, partner sharing, AI training, or sensitive-data processing.
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Open in lab Cookie consent
The product uses cookies, local storage, pixels, tags, SDKs, or similar technologies that are not strictly necessary.
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Open in lab Dangerous-action review
A user, agent, automation, or admin tool is about to execute a high-impact action that can affect money, access, production systems, legal/compliance state, customers, external recipients, sensitive data, or safety.
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Open in lab Dark-pattern consent
A UX review, privacy review, legal review, accessibility review, or support report identifies manipulation in a consent, cookie, marketing, sharing, AI training, or data-use choice.
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Open in lab Data export
Users need to download or transfer a copy of account, workspace, personal, product, activity, or organization data.
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Open in lab Delete account
Users can create an account and need a self-serve or direct request path to close it and delete associated data.
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Open in lab Exit this page quickly
The user may be harmed if someone nearby sees them viewing or using the current sensitive service.
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Open in lab Hidden destructive account deletion
Auditing a product that supports account creation and may be hiding, obstructing, disguising, or underspecifying account deletion.
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Open in lab Legal acceptance
A user must accept terms of service, conditions of sale, policy documents, service agreements, acceptable-use rules, or legal disclosures before access or transaction completion.
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Open in lab Official-site banner
The service is eligible to identify itself as an official government or public-authority website.
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Open in lab Permission prompt with no context
A product currently asks for device, browser, or app permissions before the relevant feature context exists.
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Open in lab Permission request
A feature needs operating-system, browser, or device authorization to access location, camera, microphone, photos, contacts, notifications, Bluetooth, clipboard, motion sensors, storage access, or another powerful feature.
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Open in lab Permission sharing
Owners or admins need to manage durable access to spaces, sites, repositories, projects, folders, datasets, boards, environments, or sensitive objects.
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Open in lab Privacy settings
Users need ongoing control over personal data collection, saved activity, visibility, app access, device permissions, connected services, data sharing, or personalization.
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Open in lab Report abuse
Users need to flag content, behavior, an account, conversation, listing, repository, ad, or message for policy, abuse, spam, privacy, legal, or safety review.
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Open in lab Security warning
A threat signal indicates phishing, malware, deceptive site, unsafe download, invalid certificate, insecure connection, mixed-content submission, suspicious redirect, file preview risk, or account-security danger.
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Open in lab Sensitive-data reveal
Users need to inspect, copy, verify, rotate, transcribe, or compare a sensitive value that should normally stay masked or redacted.
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Open in lab Session timeout
An authenticated session has expired or been terminated while the user was on a protected task.
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