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UX & UI design Videos Recommended on Hacker News (75)
UX & UI design is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 75 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2008 and 2026 — 174 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
User experience and interface design: usability, interaction design, user research, design systems, mobile and car UI, dark patterns, accessibility, Don Norman, design critiques.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle: “My mind was blown when I saw this video 2 years ago” — an HN commenter, 2014.
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11 mo on HNBret Victor - Inventing on Principle
Rui Oliveira
12 HN recommender · 2013–2025
9 mo on HNMike Monteiro: F*ck You, Pay Me
CreativeMornings HQ
12 HN recommender · 2015–2026
8 mo on HNMusic Software & Bad Interface Design: Avid’s Sibelius
Tantacrul
8 HN recommender · 2019–2026
5 mo on HN!!Con 2016 - How I Code and Use a Computer at 1,000 WPM!! By Sina Bahram
Confreaks
2 HN recommender · 2019–2022
6 mo on HNNotation Must Die: The Battle For How We Read Music
Tantacrul
6 HN recommender · 2023–2026
6 mo on HNA New Car UI: How touch screen controls in cars should work
Matthaeus Krenn
4 HN recommender · 2017–2023
6 mo on HNBret Victor - The Humane Representation of Thought
Colin McDonnell
4 HN recommender · 2017–2025
5 mo on HNMike Monteiro - "Fuck you pay me" (PT Br)
Montalvo Machado
6 HN recommender · 2013–2017
5 mo on HNImmediate-Mode Graphical User Interfaces - 2005
Casey Muratori
5 HN recommender · 2017–2024
4 mo on HNDasher: information-efficient text entry
Google TechTalks
2 HN recommender · 2016–2025
4 mo on HNDeskbound | Kelly Starrett | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
4 HN recommender · 2013–2021
4 mo on HNMusic Software & Interface Design: MuseScore
Tantacrul
4 HN recommender · 2019–2024
4 mo on HNMark DiMarco: User Interface Algorithms [JSConf2014]
JSConf
4 HN recommender · 2014–2018
4 mo on HNWindows 8: The Animated Evaluation
blogphilofilms
3 HN recommender · 2012–2015
4 mo on HNWhat Games Are Like For Someone Who Doesn't Play Games
Razbuten
4 HN recommender · 2019–2023
4 mo on HNGoogle Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009
Google
4 HN recommender · 2009–2025
3 mo on HNiPhone Magnifier and Voice over
Kristy Viers
3 HN recommender · 2021–2022
3 mo on HNThe GUI should be better. A lot better.
Accursed Farms
4 HN recommender · 2020–2024
3 mo on HNSo... the minute hand shows progression — apparently we think of time in wildly different ways
Technology Connextras
3 HN recommender · 2022–2026
3 mo on HNHow We Made MuseScore 4 - Music App Design is Challenging!
Tantacrul
4 HN recommender · 2022–2026
3 mo on HNWhy Do Reversing Trucks Not Beep Any More?
Tom Scott
3 HN recommender · 2016–2026
3 mo on HNThe User is Drunk
squareweave
4 HN recommender · 2014–2021
3 mo on HNMeaningful Play: Getting Gamification Right
Google TechTalks
3 HN recommender · 2012–2014
3 mo on HNHow A Blind Developer Uses Visual Studio
Coding Tech
4 HN recommender · 2019–2023
3 mo on HN"Building a Toolkit for Design" by Matthew Griffith
elm-conf
2 HN recommender · 2020–2022
3 mo on HNAvi Bryant demos Dabble db
Tavis Rudd
2 HN recommender · 2014–2023
3 mo on HNWhy this British crossroads was so dangerous
Tom Scott
3 HN recommender · 2020–2025
3 mo on HNWindows "SUCKS": How I'd Fix it by a retired Microsoft Windows engineer
Dave's Garage
3 HN recommender · 2025–2026
3 mo on HNLotus Improv for NeXT 1990
Thierry Hubert
1 HN recommend · 2022–2026
3 mo on HNApplied Sciences Group: High Performance Touch
Microsoft Research
3 HN recommender · 2012–2024
2 mo on HNWhy Doing Taxes Is So Hard | Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj | Netflix
Netflix Is A Joke
2 HN recommender · 2021–2024
2 mo on HNMicrosoft "Courier" secret tablet
Neowin
2 HN recommender · 2010–2021
2 mo on HNThe 8pen
8pen
2 HN recommender · 2022–2025
2 mo on HNSusan Kare explains Macintosh UI ergonomics on the Computer Chronicles (1984)
erg0steur
2 HN recommender · 2020–2022
2 mo on HNHumans can't read URLs. How can we fix it? - HTTP 203
Chrome for Developers
3 HN recommender · 2020–2023
2 mo on HNMIX08 Microsoft Office 2007: The Story of the Ribbon
zoobean
2 HN recommender · 2019–2025