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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 HNMark DiMarco: User Interface Algorithms [JSConf2014]
JSConf
4 HN recommender · 2014–2018
4 mo on HNWhat Games Are Like For Someone Who Doesn't Play Games
Razbuten
4 HN recommender · 2019–2023
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 HN"Building a Toolkit for Design" by Matthew Griffith
elm-conf
2 HN recommender · 2020–2022
3 mo on HNWhy this British crossroads was so dangerous
Tom Scott
3 HN recommender · 2020–2025
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 HNSusan Kare explains Macintosh UI ergonomics on the Computer Chronicles (1984)
erg0steur
2 HN recommender · 2020–2022
2 mo on HNMIX08 Microsoft Office 2007: The Story of the Ribbon
zoobean
2 HN recommender · 2019–2025
2 mo on HNWhy Western Designs Fail in Developing Countries
Design Theory
2 HN recommender · 2024–2025
2 mo on HNDon't Make Me Click
Google TechTalks
2 HN recommender · 2008–2020
2 mo on HNWhat is a Browser?
Ji Lee
2 HN recommender · 2009–2025
2 mo on HNIt's not you. Bad doors are everywhere.
Vox
2 HN recommender · 2019–2025
1 mo on HN2Advanced Studios v2 flash website in 2001
Web Design Museum
1 HN recommend · 2019–2023
1 mo on HNAre we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? | Ubuntu Summit 25.10
Canonical Ubuntu
3 HN recommender · 2025–2026
1 mo on HNMIX08 Microsoft Office 2007: The Story of the Ribbon (1 of 10)
creativecrewchannel
1 HN recommend · 2011–2020
1 mo on HNHow a Blind Developer Uses Visual Studio (Microsoft Build 2017)
Kompetenzzentrum Digitale Barrierefreiheit
1 HN recommend · 2024–2026
1 mo on HN“Bitchin’ Betty” Says Farewell: Beloved Voice Behind Boeing’s F/A-18 Super Hornet Retires
Boeing
1 HN recommend · 2016–2022
0 mo on HNAirplane crash altiport de Megève france altiport france landing without landing gear (HD)
Sven Herzog Aviation
0 HN recommender · 2016–2024
0 mo on HNOffice Space- PC Load Letter
homefree122
0 HN recommender · 2016–2022
0 mo on HN2Advanced Studios v3 flash website in 2001
Web Design Museum
0 HN recommender · 2020–2023