Act & Decide Patterns | LlamaPress Pattern Catalog

Pattern · Demo Command Palette One keyboard-summoned box that searches records and actions together, so an expert reaches anything in the product without navigating to it. Find & NavigateAct & Decide

Decision guide · Demo Confirmation vs Undo Whether an action should ask "are you sure" or just happen with a way back. The answer is decided by reversibility and blast radius, not by how dangerous the verb sounds. Act & DecideFeedback & Recovery

Decision guide · Demo Drawer vs Modal vs Page The decision guide for where a record or task should open. Three surfaces, three different promises about context — pick on the conditions, not on taste. InspectAct & Decide

Information architecture · Demo Inbox-First Application The app opens on what needs you, ordered, rather than on a summary of everything — so the first screen is a worklist you can empty, not a dashboard you look at. OrientAct & Decide

Anti-pattern · Demo Modal Maze A modal opens a modal opens a modal — each one blocking the context the next one needs, until nobody can see the record they are supposedly editing. InspectAct & Decide

Pattern · Demo Optimistic Update Show the result of an action immediately, send it in the background, and reconcile honestly if it fails — so a fast action feels instant instead of waiting on a network round trip. Edit & ManipulateAct & DecideFeedback & Recovery

Pattern · Demo Review Queue A single ordered worklist that hands one person the next item to judge, with the decision available in the same view — built so the queue empties rather than so it can be browsed. Act & DecideMove Through Workflow

Workflow topology · Demo Stage-Gated Workflow A record cannot advance to the next stage until stated conditions are met, and the interface says exactly which condition is blocking it. Move Through WorkflowAct & Decide

Exemplar What Gmail Figured Out That when an action is frequent and reversible, undo beats confirmation — and that changing an action's reversibility is better than adding friction to it. Act & DecideFeedback & Recovery

Exemplar What Linear Figured Out That software used all day is a keyboard instrument, and that speed comes from removing round trips rather than from optimising them. Act & DecideEdit & ManipulateFind & Navigate

Visual grammar · Demo Words and Labels The text is the interface. A button named after its outcome, a label in the customer's vocabulary and an error that says what to do next do more than any amount of layout. OrientAct & Decide