A comprehensive guide for creating consistent, accessible, and user-friendly UI components.
When I started coding UI components, I quickly realized I had no idea how to build them properly. Questions about scalability, best practices, and accessibility constantly plagued my development process. I knew my components worked functionally, but I had little confidence they were built well or would stand the test of time and real-world usage.
This uncertainty led me to explore how the industry's most established companies approach component design. I dove deep into the design systems of Google, Apple, Microsoft, Atlassian, and Shopify, hoping to understand not just what they built, but how and why they built it that way. Each system offered valuable insights, yet I found myself jumping between different documentation sites, trying to piece together a complete picture of component best practices.
The Web UI Playbook emerged from this research as my attempt to synthesize these learnings into a single, comprehensive resource. Instead of developers having to hunt across multiple design systems to understand how to build robust, accessible components, I wanted to create a centralized collection that distills the collective wisdom of these industry leaders. The goal is to document not just the what, but the how and why behind effective component design.
This is very much a learning exercise for me, and I'm certain there are gaps and oversights that more experienced practitioners would spot immediately. I'm hoping others will contribute their expertise to make this resource more complete and useful for anyone facing the same challenges I encountered when trying to build better UI components.
A curated collection of documented UI components, each with implementation guides, accessibility best practices, and usage patterns inspired by industry-leading design systems.
- 🔜 Soon - Component is coming soon
- 🚧 In Progress - Component is actively being developed
- ✅ Complete - Component development is finished
| Component | Description | Status | Documentation Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🚨 Alerts | Non-intrusive messages for system status, errors, warnings, and contextual information | ✅ Complete | View Alerts Documentation |
| 👤 Avatar | Visual representation of users with customizable sizes, shapes, and fallback states | ✅ Complete | View Avatar Documentation |
| 🏷️ Badge | Small labels for status indicators, notifications, and categorization | ✅ Complete | View Badge Documentation |
| 🔘 Buttons | Interactive elements for triggering actions, form submissions, and navigation | ✅ Complete | View Buttons Documentation |
| 🃏 Card | Flexible containers for grouping related content with consistent spacing and borders | ✅ Complete | View Card Documentation |
| ☑️ Checkbox | Multi-selection controls for independent choices, forms, and binary settings | ✅ Complete | View Checkbox Documentation |
| 📝 Combobox | Searchable dropdown inputs combining text input with selectable options | ✅ Complete | View Combobox Documentation |
| 🍔 Menu | Navigation components with dropdown lists, context menus, and hierarchical options | ✅ Complete | View Menu Documentation |
| 🪟 Modal | Overlay dialogs for focused tasks, confirmations, and blocking user interactions | ✅ Complete | View Modal Documentation |
| 📊 Progress Indicators | Visual feedback for loading states, task completion, and operation progress | ✅ Complete | View Progress Indicators Documentation |
| 🔘 Radio Button | Single-selection controls for mutually exclusive options in forms and settings | ✅ Complete | View Radio Button Documentation |
| 🎚️ Slider | Range input controls for selecting numeric values within defined boundaries | ✅ Complete | View Slider Documentation |
| 🔄 Switch | Binary toggle controls for immediate state changes and on/off settings | ✅ Complete | View Switch Documentation |
| 📑 Tabs | Content organization with tabbed navigation for switching between related panels | 🚧 In Progress | View Tabs Documentation |
| 📝 Text Input | Form input fields for text entry with validation, labels, and error states | ✅ Complete | View Text Input Documentation |
| 💭 Tooltips | Contextual help text that appears on hover to provide additional information | ✅ Complete | View Tooltips Documentation |
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