Wizards may be an ancient design pattern, but they still have some uses

Designing for important but infrequent tasks often requires a wizard

Kai Wong
UX Collective
Published in
6 min readAug 31, 2022

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A person dressed in wizard robes holding a wand over a foggy cauldron. There are books, candles, and more laid out, making it seem like a magical/fantasy setting.
Photo by Artem Maltsev on Unsplash

Sometimes, you might design for important but infrequent tasks, such as installing new software.

In those cases, you might want to rely on a design pattern that you and I might have grown up with: the

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