Overview
Redpanda Design docs and UXR studies
Start with a principle to understand what we optimize for, or jump straight to a pattern when you're building a specific screen.
Principles
These principles guide every decision in our UIs. They are grounded in usability research and mature enterprise design systems — not preference.
States & feedback
How a surface behaves over time and tells the user what's happening.
Cognitive load
Keeping complex input approachable — structure, progressive disclosure, and flow.
Actions & proximity
Where controls live and how reachable they are.
Accessibility
Making the UI work for everyone, in every condition.
Patterns
A pattern is a reusable, proven solution to a recurring user experience. Each pattern is backed by live, interactive examples you can poke at, as well as the design principles that justify it.
Creating a resource
Provision a new resource with a guided, validated form.
Listing resources
Scan, filter, and act on many resources at once.
Resource detail
Inspect one resource read-first, and edit any section in place.
Editing a resource
Change a resource's values with live validation and an unsaved-changes guard.