# Object-Oriented UI Design and Its Role in User-Centered Interfaces

DevFeed: [Object-Oriented UI Design and Its Role in User-Centered Interfaces](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/7-reasons-object-oriented-ui-design-will-grow-your-career-31382.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://ixdf.org/literature/article/7-reasons-object-oriented-ui-design-will-grow-your-career>)

Author: William Hudson

Published: 2026-09-16T07:42:01Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [UX Daily - User Experience Daily](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ux-daily-user-experience-daily.md>)

Topics: [User interface design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ui-design.md>), [User Experience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/user-experience.md>), [ui](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ui.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>)

Tags: [app](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/app.md>), [design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/design.md>), [object](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/object.md>), [ui](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ui.md>), [ui-design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ui-design.md>), [user-experience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/user-experience.md>)

## AI overview

The video explains object-oriented UI design through an airline reservation example. It argues that users think in terms of meaningful objects, such as reservations, rather than isolated features and screens, and introduces conceptual models as a way to structure interfaces around those objects.

## Source excerpt

Vacation time! You book your flight. You have a reservation. It's real. You paid for it. And yet, when you open the airline's app to look at it, it's surprisingly elusive. You don't want to check in, you don't want to change it, you just want to find it and check the details. It's not on the home screen. The home screen wants to sell you another flight. You try your profile. Only personal details. You try "My Trips." There it is! Except "My Trips" only shows the flight. Your seat is somewhere else. Your meal preference is somewhere else. Your upgrade option is somewhere else. The one thing that should hold all of this together, your reservation, has been chopped into pieces and scattered acr...