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Browse the toolboxA curriculum, not a feed
- 01 Introduction to UX
- 02 UX Design Frameworks
- 03 Equity & Accessibility
- 04 Impostor Syndrome & Biases
- 05 Design Sprint
Affordance
A visual or physical cue that suggests how an element can be used — like a raised button that looks pressable or an underlined word that looks clickable.
uxspot.io/glossary/affordance203 UX terms defined, A to Z — each with its own citable page.
Open the glossary- Chapters
- 13
- Glossary terms
- 203
- Checklist items
- 214
- Curated tools
- 54
> What's the Z-pattern?
define_term("z-pattern")
How eyes scan a sparse page — across, diagonal, across:
source: uxspot.io/glossary/z-pattern
“Caption” is #9A9A9A on white — 2.8:1, under 4.5:1.
WCAG asks for 4.5:1 on body text. The computed passing grey is one click away.
A design mentor inside Figma12 cited rules — real WCAG arithmetic, tap-target floors and spacing scales, one finding at a time. Never a report dump.
Get pluginThe MCP server and the Figma plugin are open source — inspect every tool and every rule before you install them.
dockster/uxspot-mcp on GitHub dockster/uxspot-figma-plugin on GitHubFitts’s Law
A model predicting that the time to reach a target depends on its size and distance — bigger, closer targets are faster and easier to hit.
uxspot.io/glossary/fitts-s-lawBuilt and maintained by Soufiane Chraibi. The MCP server source code is available on GitHub.