The Eight Golden Rules of Dialog Design
These rules are due to Ben Schneiderman
- Strive for Consistency
- Enable Frequent Users to use shortcuts
- Offer Informative Feedback
- Design Dialogs to yield closure
- Offer simple error handling
- Permit easy reversal of actions
- Support internal locus of control
- Reduce Short term memory load
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