UsabilityDesignPatterns
Template for New Patterns
Ideals
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/DontInterruptMe
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/HabitFormingness
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/Modelessness
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/Monotony
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/SelfTeachingInterface
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/EducatingUsers
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/InternalConsistency
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/ExternalConsistency
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/MyTrainOfThoughtIsSacred
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/NothingLeftToTakeAway
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/KnowYourAudience
Patterns
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/UndoNotConfirmation
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/InfiniteUndo
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/AutoSave
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/IllusionaryInstantLoad
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/NounThenVerb
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/WeightedAutocomplete
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/NaturalMapping
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/MultiTouchGestures
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/OneHandedToolKeys
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/BigFittsLawTarget
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/Quasimode
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/PluginArchitecture
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/SimpleToolsThatWorkTogether
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/IncrementalSearch
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/HubPlusTools
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/Indication
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/InstantFeedback
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/FirstLevelMario
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/FreeformDateEntry
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/SensibleDefaults
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/AutomaticConfiguration
Concepts
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/FittsLaw
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/GOMSmodeling
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/Consistency
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/Efficiency
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/Learnability
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/MentalModel
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/Affordance
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/LocusOfAttention
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/HicksLaw
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/RecognitionVsRecall
Antipatterns
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/ConfirmationDialog
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/AskingMeQuestionsIDontCareAbout
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/StealingFocus
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/ModalDialogBox
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/LosingData
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/TeachingUnsafeHabits
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/CantFormHabits
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/ModeError
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/HiddenMode
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/KeyboardMouseSwitching
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/PrefDialogFromHell
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/OverCustomizability
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/MalAdaptiveInterface
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/CrypticIcon
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/Jargonosity
- UsabilityDesignPatterns/TimeSensitiveInterface