Well-known User-Interface Design Rules
Here is a sampling of user-interface design guidelines that have been published.
Norman (1983a)
Inferences from research
• Mode errors suggest the need for better feedback.
• Description errors suggest the need for better system configuration.
• Lack of consistency leads to errors.
• Capture errors imply the need to avoid overlapping command sequences.
• Activation issues suggest the importance of memory reminders.
• People will make errors, so make the system insensitive to them.
Lessons
• Feedback. The state of the system should be clearly available to the user, ideally in a form that is unambiguous and that makes the set of options readily available so as to avoid mode errors.
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