The principles that make a design defensible and the definitions of success it will eventually be judged against.
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Listed inUsability Heuristics & Laws of UXPrinciples & Successon
The ten Nielsen heuristics, each with examples — still the vocabulary most design critique is conducted in.
Listed inUsability Heuristics & Laws of UXPrinciples & Successon
Fitts, Hick, Jakob, Miller, and the rest — each stated in a sentence, with the research behind it and the caveats attached.
Listed inUsability Heuristics & Laws of UXPrinciples & Successon
Nielsen's ten heuristics plus Fitts, Hick, and Jakob — the shorthand most design critique is conducted in.
Listed inProduct-Market FitPrinciples & Successon
What it actually looks like in the data, and why designing before you have it is a different job.
Listed inIteration over PerfectionPrinciples & Successon
Shipping the version that teaches you something, and knowing which details genuinely cannot wait.
Listed inDesign PrinciplesPrinciples & Successon
Written commitments a team can hold each other to, and the difference between a principle and a platitude.
Listed inValue PropositionPrinciples & Successon
The claim about who this is for and why they would switch — stated tightly enough to be wrong.
Listed inCollaboration by DesignPrinciples & Successon
Building the process so engineering and product are in the work early rather than reviewing it late.
Listed inProduct VisionPrinciples & Successon
The medium-term picture that keeps a roadmap from becoming a list of whatever was asked for last.
Listed inConsistency & CoherencePrinciples & Successon
When to reuse the existing pattern and when consistency is just an excuse not to solve the problem.
Listed inGoal SettingPrinciples & Successon
Turning a vague ambition into a goal specific enough that you could tell whether you missed it.
Listed inSuccess MetricsPrinciples & Successon
Choosing the number the work is accountable to, and the counter-metric that stops you gaming it.