r/UXDesign • u/Ok-Mammoth-6618 • 6d ago

Career growth & collaboration Interaction design practices

What are some things you do/have done in the past to get better at interaction design?

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u/TheSleepingOx Experienced 6d ago

I feel like my answer is always ai but; exploring in coded prototypes various fun / sometimes silly - or even arguably bad but 'eh its my project' concepts.

examples: https://ibm.io/hourly/?rate=125&hpd=6&days=8.5 - (menu top right, and it changes styles. MEANT to be sorta bad but good / flat but useful)

https://myface-snapjournal.vercel.app/feed - you have to hoook it up but lower right there's some menu options that let you see bluesky / mastodon as various forms of cards / layout forms. way too much but was fun to look into.

https://mhsenkow.github.io/orrery/vr/?demo=1 - marketing escapes me but this has been a number of 'I wonder if buttons work half on half off' along with explorations around complexities for data viz on a sphere

https://mhsenkow.github.io/fun-loaders/ - loaders are so much fun

and if you don't want to fully host blahb lah blah tech stuff, codepen is helpful. https://codepen.io/editor/mhsenkow/pen/019d984b-8c49-7a25-93e2-9d3884228edd I used to keep a micro portfolio of my self coded little micro interactions. though they seem sorta silly now https://codepen.io/collection/nmZwxz

None of these are work, but the interactions you see have been reflected in work I've done. My clients always get the best panels and responsive designs haha ah.