PickVidsBest UX & UI design Videos
The 75 UX & UI design videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 3 introductory, 14 intermediate, 58 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a demo. What they share is that you see the result first and only then decide whether to follow the detail. Channels you will keep seeing include Tantacrul, Google TechTalks, Tom Scott.
"Building a Toolkit for Design" by Matthew Griffith
Matthew Griffith, creator of elm-ui, presents a toolkit for designing layouts in Elm as an alternative to CSS.
Avi Bryant demos Dabble db
Avi Bryant demos Dabble DB, a web-based spreadsheet-like database for building apps without code.
Why this British crossroads was so dangerous
Tom Scott explains why Ipley Cross in England's New Forest was one of Britain's most dangerous junctions.
Windows "SUCKS": How I'd Fix it by a retired Microsoft Windows engineer
Dave Plummer, a retired Microsoft engineer who wrote Task Manager, responds to the claim that Windows sucks.
Lotus Improv for NeXT 1990
A 1990 Lotus sales demo of Improv, a spreadsheet built for the NeXT computer that rethought the grid with named categories and multiple views.
Applied Sciences Group: High Performance Touch
A Microsoft Research demo from TechFest 2012 of a lab touch system that lets viewers feel the effect of different input latencies, down to about 1 ms.
Why Doing Taxes Is So Hard | Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj | Netflix
An episode of Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj exposing how tax-prep companies like TurboTax make filing confusing and costly even though many Americans can file for free.
Microsoft "Courier" secret tablet
A short concept video of Microsoft's unreleased Courier, a dual-screen tablet designed as a digital notebook with clippings and annotation.
The 8pen
A demo of the 8pen, a gesture-based keyboard replacement for touchscreens that lets users enter text by moving around a circle.
Susan Kare explains Macintosh UI ergonomics on the Computer Chronicles (1984)
A 1984 Computer Chronicles segment in which Susan Kare explains the ergonomics and interface design of the original Macintosh.
Humans can't read URLs. How can we fix it? - HTTP 203
Jake Archibald argues that URLs are nearly impossible for humans to interpret, especially for security.
MIX08 Microsoft Office 2007: The Story of the Ribbon
A MIX08 session from Microsoft's Office team on how the Office 2007 ribbon was designed.
Nest Protect is a terrible buggy product
Brad Fitzpatrick records himself struggling to silence a set of first-generation Nest Protect smoke alarms that keep beeping and triggering one another.
Why Western Designs Fail in Developing Countries
A design essay on why products designed in Western contexts often fail when deployed in developing countries.
Touché: Enhancing Touch Interaction on Humans, Screens, Liquids, and Everyday Objects
Disney Research presents Touche, a swept frequency capacitive sensing technique that recognizes complex hand and body configurations, and adds touch sensitivity to humans, liquids and everyday objects.
Don't Make Me Click
A Google Tech Talk arguing that the best interface requires the fewest clicks and choices, with Google search, Facebook, the iPod and Firefox as examples.
Music Software & Interface Design: Steinberg's Dorico
Tantacrul critiques the UX and UI of Steinberg's Dorico music notation software, comparing it with Sibelius and user testing it with real musicians alongside his own attempt to compose in it.
What is a Browser?
Street interviews of over 50 passersby in Times Square, asked what a browser is.
It's not you. Bad doors are everywhere.
Vox's Joe Posner, with help from 99% Invisible, explains why bad doors are everywhere.
2Advanced Studios v2 flash website in 2001
A one-minute archive video of the 2Advanced Studios v2 website from 2001, a showcase of the elaborate futuristic Flash interfaces the agency was known for.
Morten Rand-Hendriksen: CSS Grid Changes Everything (About Web Layouts)
Morten Rand-Hendriksen argues that CSS Grid changes web layout, showing how to place content in cells independent of HTML source order and reshape layouts with media queries.
Apple Execs on What Went Wrong With Siri, iOS 26 and More (Full Interview) | WSJ
WSJ's Joanna Stern interviews Apple's Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak at WWDC 2025 about Siri's delays, AI strategy, the Liquid Glass redesign in iOS 26, iPad versus Mac, and tariffs.
Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? | Ubuntu Summit 25.10
Scott Jenson, a veteran UX designer formerly at Apple and Google, argues that the 'UX/UI' split pits programmers against designers and narrows ambition in open source.
Andrew Price - Improving Blender's UI
Andrew Price presents at the Blender conference on the problems, politics and possible fixes for Blender's user interface, followed by a full Q&A.