B3.14
Match with the Real World
Cards in this group · 4
- B3.14.1The match targets users’ world, not the designer’s or the engineering implementation’s world
- B3.14.2Metaphors necessarily break where they exceed the original object’s properties; define their boundary in advance
- B3.14.3Terminology consistency outranks terminology accuracy; synonym rotation is read as different concepts
- B3.14.4Numbers, dates, and units should follow users’ local conventions