Within about five years the user interface will be generated afresh each time a user opens an app, so different users will get drastically different designs.

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  Obviousness comes from conforming to people's existing mental models: do not reinvent a common UI pattern unless the new one is at least twice as good.

  Zhuo says obviousness comes from conforming to the mental models people already have, and that a common pattern should not be reinvented unless the replacement is twice as good. Nielsen expects the interface to be generated afresh on every open, so that different users get drastically different designs. A design regenerated each session gives a user no pattern to have learned.

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