Laws of UX Design
Law stating that items or elements that are positioned close together are perceived as belonging to the same group.
What is the Law of Proximity?
Design style characterized by unadorned large blocks and squared shapes.
What is Brutalism?
Seven universal principles of design to maximize usability for as many types of users as possible.
What is Universal Design?
What is a focus group?
Document that describes the purposes, procedures, risks and benefits of a study and which must be signed by research participants.
What is an Informed Consent Form (ICF)?
Law stating that you should be flexible in terms of what you accept from your users while limiting what you ask of them.
What is Postel's Law?
Psychological principles to optimize the user's ability to perceive and make sense of visual information.
What are Gestalt Principles?
The set of characteristics that individuals must meet to participate in a study.
What are inclusion criteria?
Children, prisoners, pregnant women and people with cognitive difficulties.
Law stating that the average person can hold only 7 items in their working memory, plus or minus 2.
What is Miller's Law?
Perceivable, operable, understandable and robust (POUR).
What are the four principles of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)?
Data values that have a natural order or sequence (e.g., easy, hard, very hard).
The time required to make selections rises with the number of choices on a user interface.
What is Hick's Law?
Question types that do not provide a list of specific responses, but provide an open field for text responses.
What are open-ended questions?