user-interface

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User interface (UI, formerly human interface / HI) refers to presentational and interactive design elements of potentially any tool, usually electronic tools, hardware and/or software, and everything a user sees or may interact with on a personal website.

Aspects of personal website UI for readers:

• URL design
• navigation
• ...

On post permalinks in particular:

• hashtags
• sequential navigation
• web actions
• citation text field for copying a permalink or citation markup to use elsewhere
• ...

A user interface may also be referred to in context as an interface, or implied when used as a compound noun with some user-level concept or object, e.g.:

• post and posting interface
• edit and editing interface
• comment and commenting interface
• admin and admin interface

See Also

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_interface
• design
• UX
• action button
• Possible inspirations: http://www.blindltd.com/ - lots of examples of "fake" (is it fake if it's actually used/usable?) UI created for movies
• Dark Patterns which should generally be eschewed
• Avoid using tooltips: https://twitter.com/adambsilver/status/1151797374043525121
  • "Many reasons to avoid tooltips. But the biggest one is that they are usually so unnecessary." @adambsilver July 18, 2019
• “building blocks” for UI: 2020-08 The UX of LEGO Interface Panels (actually UI not UX because for one the panels are all static)
• https://twitter.com/kringal/status/882208034617004032
  • "User interface is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it's not that good 😁" @kringal July 4, 2017
• to-do: consider renaming / reframing from "user interface" to "human interface", for reasons provided in Let’s replace “user experience” with human experience and per the IndieWeb community motto on the home page of The IndieWeb is a *people-focused* alternative to the “corporate web”. *Emphasis* added.