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No Dead Ends

MUST

MUST: No dead ends; always offer next step/recovery

Every screen offers a next step or recovery path

Bad

Good

Why it matters

Empty states, error pages, and completion screens should always provide clear next actions. Never leave users stuck wondering what to do. Offer suggestions, links to help, or ways to start over.

References

Built by Gleb Stroganov, design engineer at Evil Martians.

The rules come from other people's skills and guidelines — Vercel, Rauno Freiberg, @Ibelick, impeccable, Emil Kowalski, Tailwind, RAMS — each one credited on the Sources page. The work here is extraction and wiring: every rule is pulled into one corpus, given a good and a bad example you can operate, a MUST/SHOULD/NEVER rule an agent can paste, and a link back to where it came from.