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Human-interface design principles from decades ago remain valid because human cognition hasn't changed.

Drawn from what Nikita Prokopov said

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design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

Affordances and signifiers

Which mental models should a designer think with?under our view: An interface must show what can be done: affordances, signifiers and a conceptual model

What Nikita Prokopov actually said

  1. Nikita Prokopov Programmer and designer who writes at tonsky.me
    But the principles-as long as they are good principles-still apply, because they are based on how humans work, not how computers work.

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