Design & UX

Microinteractions

Designing details that delight users

Design the tiny, delightful details that make products feel polished and alive using Dan Saffer's Microinteractions framework. This skill equips your AI agent with the four-part structure — Trigger, Rules, Feedback, Loops & Modes — for crafting interactions that users remember.

Microinteractions by Dan Saffer

Microinteractions

by Dan Saffer

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What your agent learns

Triggers

Initiate the interaction — user-initiated triggers (buttons, gestures) and system triggers (notifications, state changes).

Rules

Define what happens when triggered — the logic that determines the interaction's behavior and constraints.

Feedback

Communicate what's happening through visual, auditory, or haptic responses — make invisible processes visible.

Loops & Modes

Handle what happens over time — does the interaction repeat? Does it change with use? Are there different modes?

Signature Moments

Design one standout microinteraction that becomes your product's signature — the detail users talk about.

Dan Saffer

Former design lead at Twitter, coined "microinteractions"

Dan Saffer is a product designer and author who has led design at Twitter, Jawbone, and Smart Design. He coined the term "microinteractions" and developed the framework that transformed how the industry thinks about interaction design details.

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