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Quote: design a user interface with standard, defined objects; the appearance and behavior of such objects should always be the same

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Topic:
mental models, consistency, and interface metaphors
Topic:
identifying the user interface with the system

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GUIDELINE An interface system destined to produce consistent … objects. For example, the file folder object … [has a standard appearance and behaviors such as:] opening with a double-click, displaying contents in … Neither the programmer nor the user can (easily) … any other standard object in the interface. This …   Google-1   Google-2

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