UX Patterns Guide
12 documented entries

Collaboration And Social Interaction

Comments, mentions, presence, feeds, handoffs, shared attention, and team workflow.

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Activity feed

Users need to catch up on recent collaboration, app, repository, channel, project, meeting, reminder, or task activity.

Type
UI-UX
Sources
6
Trail checked
establishedCatch-up stream of recent collaboration and work events with actor, verb, object, type, destination, and triage controls
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Change review

Users inspect and decide on proposed edits, tracked changes, code suggestions, file diffs, or document redlines.

Type
UI-UX
Sources
6
Trail checked
establishedReview surface for proposed edits, diffs, tracked changes, or suggestions before they become accepted content
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Comments

Users need object-attached discussion without changing the primary object content directly.

Type
UI-UX
Sources
4
Trail checked
establishedObject-attached comment composer and comment list with authorship, replies, state, permissions, and moderation
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Follow / subscribe

Users need future updates from a specific object, thread, channel, space, repository, topic, saved view, or query.

Type
UI-UX
Sources
8
Trail checked
establishedPer-object opt-in control for future updates from a thread, page, channel, space, repository, saved view, or topic
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Handoff summary

Responsibility, context, or conversation control transfers to another person, team, queue, shift, AI agent, live agent, or system.

Type
UI-UX
Sources
6
Trail checked
establishedConcise transfer packet for responsibility, conversation, case, or task context
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Invite user

An authorized user needs to bring another person into a workspace, organization, project, channel, repository, team, tenant, or shared object.

Type
UI-UX
Sources
5
Trail checked
establishedInvitation lifecycle for granting another person access
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Live cursors

Collaborators need real-time spatial awareness in a shared visual or text surface.

Type
UI-UX
Sources
7
Trail checked
establishedEphemeral collaborator pointer and selection awareness with identity, color, recency, privacy, visibility controls, and stale-state handling
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Mentions

Composed content needs to target people or groups inline.

Type
UI-UX
Sources
6
Trail checked
establishedInline recipient reference with autocomplete, stable recipient identity, notification routing, access checks, and broad-audience safeguards
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Presence

Users need to understand current or recent availability before messaging, calling, assigning, routing, or joining.

Type
UI-UX
Sources
6
Trail checked
establishedPerson or group availability signal with status label, recency, source, privacy boundary, and action-aware affordances
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Reactions

Users need quick, lightweight feedback on an existing message, comment, issue, document selection, or work item.

Type
UI-UX
Sources
5
Trail checked
establishedLightweight emoji feedback control anchored to an existing message, comment, issue, document selection, or work item
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Share dialog

A user needs to share one object or a small set of selected objects with people, groups, domains, links, or device targets.

Type
UI-UX
Sources
7
Trail checked
establishedObject-level sharing control for recipients, link scope, roles, delivery, copy-link, native share, and access management
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Threaded discussion

A topic or parent message can generate multiple reply branches that users need to follow over time.

Type
UI-UX
Sources
3
Trail checked
establishedTopic-centered conversation with parent post, reply branches, unread participation state, and thread-level controls
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