TermCraft conventionFoundational
Empty State
What you see when there is nothing there yet.
Definition
The presentation of a container that has no content, distinguished by cause: first use, no results, cleared or error.
Craft convention. True because the industry converged on it. Breaking it costs familiarity, not correctness.
In plain language
What you see when there is nothing there yet.
Example
A new workspace showing what projects are for and one action to create the first.
Continue from here
Each link says what the connection is, so you can tell a principle from an alternative from a thing people mix this up with.
Deeper reading
The full entry behind this definition.
- Empty StatesPattern
- Loading StatesPattern
- OnboardingPattern
Nearby in the Atlas
Adjacent territory, found through shared tags rather than a stated link.