Basic UI Principles

Basic UI Principles

1. 1. Place users in control of the interface: make actions reversible and forgiving, create an easy to use interface, provide informative feedback by acknowledgement, show visibility of system status, accommodate users from different skill levels

2. 2. Make it comfortable for a user to interact with a product: Eliminate all elements that are not helping your users, don’t ask users for data they’ve already entered, avoid jargon and system-oriented terms, apply Fitts’s Law to interactive elements, design accessible interfaces, use real-world metaphors, engineer for errors, protect a user’s work

3. 3. Reduce cognitive load: Reduce the number of actions required to complete a task, recognition over recall, promote visual clarity

4. 4. Make user interfaces consistent: Visual consistency (style), functional consistency (behavior), consistent with user expectations,