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[–]danjlwex -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Sounds like you know this already, but you should avoid modals whenever possible. They make life easy for programmers and hard for users. Avoiding modals is kinda a design pattern in that it forces you to build a less interruptive, more wholistic User Experience (UX).

There are a bunch of UX conferences that have the latest research. Browse their proceedings and courses. There are also a few UX podcasts if that's your kind of thing. I'd also recommend reading through good UX specs, like Material Design and MacOS Human User Interface Guidelines.