{"id":438,"date":"2026-08-02T18:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T18:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.agratri.com\/truiall\/designing-empty-states-people-actually-read\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T16:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T16:10:10","slug":"designing-empty-states-people-actually-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.agratri.com\/truiall\/designing-empty-states-people-actually-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Designing Empty States People Actually Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The empty state is often the first screen a new user sees, and it is usually the last screen anyone designs. By the time it gets attention the deadline has arrived, so it ships as a grey illustration and the words &#8220;Nothing here yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Three kinds of empty<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>First run.<\/strong> The user has done nothing wrong. This screen should teach and invite.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cleared.<\/strong> The user finished everything. This screen should acknowledge that.<\/li>\n<li><strong>No results.<\/strong> Something was searched and nothing matched. This screen should offer a way out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Treating all three the same is why empty states feel generic. A cleared inbox and a failed search are opposite emotional moments.<\/p>\n<h3>What to put in them<\/h3>\n<p>One sentence explaining what belongs here. One action that fills it. If the action needs setup elsewhere, link there directly rather than describing the path in prose.<\/p>\n<p>Skip the illustration if it does not clarify anything. A well written line of text does more work than a shrugging character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The empty state is often the first screen a new user sees, and it is usually the last screen anyone designs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[35,44,43],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design","tag-design","tag-product","tag-ux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.agratri.com\/truiall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.agratri.com\/truiall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.agratri.com\/truiall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.agratri.com\/truiall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.agratri.com\/truiall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.agratri.com\/truiall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.agratri.com\/truiall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.agratri.com\/truiall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.agratri.com\/truiall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.agratri.com\/truiall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}