{"id":381,"date":"2023-02-17T08:43:34","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T08:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nua-ux.design\/olivia-johnson\/blog\/?p=381"},"modified":"2023-02-17T08:47:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T08:47:06","slug":"don-normans-design-principles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nua-ux.design\/olivia-johnson\/blog\/don-normans-design-principles\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Norman&#8217;s Design Principles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Below is a copy of the seven design principles, which are used throughout User Experience Design:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li><strong>Discoverability<\/strong> &#8211; ability for something to be discoverable, users should be able to locate their own way around a system.<\/li><li><strong>Feedback<\/strong> &#8211; make it clear to the user that an action has been taken, and what has been accomplished.<\/li><li><strong>Conceptual Models<\/strong> &#8211; a useful explanation of how something works. This is used subconsciously and intuitively, in order to systemise processes.<\/li><li><strong>Affordances<\/strong> &#8211; attribute of something that allows people to know how to use it.<\/li><li><strong>Signifiers<\/strong> &#8211; aspects of visual design design that represents potential and intended use, and to also show system status.<\/li><li><strong>Mapping<\/strong> &#8211; having a clear relationship between controls and the effect they have on the World. Controls should feel as natural as possible.<\/li><li><strong>Constraints<\/strong> &#8211; Having a limited range of interaction possibilities for the user, in order to simplify the interface and guide the user to the appropriate next action.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below is a copy of the seven design principles, which are used throughout User Experience Design: Discoverability &#8211; ability for something to be discoverable, users should be able to locate their own way around a system. Feedback &#8211; make it clear to the user that an action has been taken, and what has been accomplished. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,12],"tags":[],"featured_media_urls":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nua-ux.design\/olivia-johnson\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nua-ux.design\/olivia-johnson\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nua-ux.design\/olivia-johnson\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nua-ux.design\/olivia-johnson\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nua-ux.design\/olivia-johnson\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nua-ux.design\/olivia-johnson\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386,"href":"https:\/\/www.nua-ux.design\/olivia-johnson\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nua-ux.design\/olivia-johnson\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nua-ux.design\/olivia-johnson\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nua-ux.design\/olivia-johnson\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}