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No Dead Zones

MUST

MUST: No "dead-looking" interactive zones—if it looks clickable, it is

If part of a control looks interactive, it should be interactive

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Why it matters

When part of a component looks clickable (like a card with a button), make the entire component clickable, not just the button. This matches user expectations and reduces frustration from clicking "dead zones" that don't respond.

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.