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Inverting established keyboard shortcuts for zooming creates user errors and slips due to muscle memory.
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- Waqas Younas Software engineer and essayist who writes about programming
Established shortcuts turn into procedural memory, or muscle memory. When you invert them, you create slips: the user performs a well-learned action and gets the opposite result. In practice, this means more errors, and more time spent correcting them.
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