Sparkles aren’t good UX✨

Even if they’re aesthetically pleasing, you can’t substitute important information with sparkles.

Daley Wilhelm
UX Collective
Published in
6 min readMar 4, 2023

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A large purple four-pointed star beside a smaller orange and a small blue star on a light blue background.
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I will be the first person to tell you how much I love the sparkle emoji. ✨ I use them constantly, and in most personal projects, I throw them onto my designs like glitter. They give things a little more ✨glitz✨, a little more ✨glam✨, and the four-pointed star…

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A fiction writer turned UX writer dedicated to crisp copy, inclusive experiences, and humanizing tech.