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Enjoy the following 36 design metaphors, idioms, and anti-patterns<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Lipstick on a Pig<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Mullet UI<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Dribbblization<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Cargo Cult UX<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Pixel Peeping<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Frankenstein Design<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Lorem ipsum trap<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Empty Fridge Syndrome<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. Dark Forest UX<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. Uncanny Valley<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  11. Yak Shaving<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  12. Bike Shedding<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  13. Rubber Ducking<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  14. Sandbagging<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  15. Paving the Cow Path<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  16. Design Debt<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  17. Whack-a-mole<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  18. Pogo Sticking<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  19. Wizard of Oz Testing<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  20. A\/B Cemetery<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  21. Executive Seagull Effect<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  22. Dogfooding<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  23. Happy Path<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  24. Sad Path<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  25. False Consensus Effect<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  26. Design by Committee<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  27. UX Theater<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  28. Canary Release<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  29. HiPPO<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  30. Broken Windows UX<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  31. Sunk Cost Fallacy<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  32. Confirmation Bias<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  33. Anchoring Bias<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  34. Primacy Bias<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  35. Recency Bias<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  36. Hick’s Law<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  37. Cobra Effect<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  38. AI Oracle Effect<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  39. Swiss Cheese Model<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  40. Iceberg Model<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  41. Kitchen Sink<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  42. Murphy’s Law<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  43. Breadcrumbs<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  44. Red Herring<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  45. Diderot Effect<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  46. Streisand Effect<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  47. Bus Factor<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  48. Hofstadter’s Law<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  49. Thinking Outside the Box<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  50. Showstopper<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  51. Gold Plating<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  52. Brainstorming<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  53. Boilerplate<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  54. Data-Ink Ratio<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  55. Throwing Spaghetti at the Wall<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  56. Bells and Whistles<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  57. Winging It<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  58. Vibe Coding<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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