The author, who has years of experience in user interface design, presents “The Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design.” These rules are derived from decades of experience and have been expanded upon by other designers in the field. The rules include striving for consistency in design, ensuring universal usability for diverse users, offering informative feedback for user actions, designing dialogs that give users a sense of closure, preventing errors and providing clear instructions for recovery, allowing for easy reversal of actions, keeping users in control of the interface, and reducing short-term memory load. These principles serve as a starting point for designers and should be interpreted and adapted for specific design environments.
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