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Golden Rules and Principles of Design

Respond to each of Shneiderman's Eight Golden Rules and each of Norman's Seven Principles as to whether the original designer met the 'golden rule' or 'principle' in the original creation of the 'product' you selected for your individual research topic.

Thinking about your individual research topic, provide a short description of how this Rule or Principle was Met or NOT MET for following points shown below :-

Strive for consistency.

Enable frequent users to use shortcuts.

Offer informative feedback.

Design dialogs to yield closure.

Offer error prevention and simple error handling.

Permit easy reversal of actions.

Support internal locus of control.

Reduce short-term memory load.

Use both knowledge in the world and knowledge in the head.

Exploit the power of constraints, both natural and artificial.

Make things visible: bridge the gulfs of Execution and Evaluation.

Get the mappings right.

Design for error.

When all else fails, standardize.

Simplify the structure of tasks.