Principle of least astonishment

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title: Principle of least astonishment
text: In user interface design and software design, the principle of least astonishment (POLA), also known as principle of least surprise, proposes that a component of a system should behave in a way that most users will expect it to behave, and therefore not astonish or surprise users. The following is a corollary of the principle: "If a necessary feature has a high astonishment factor, it may be necessary to redesign the feature." The principle has been in use in relation to computer interaction sin
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date created: 2002-07-18T11:29:43Z
date modified: 2024-09-07T02:43:32Z
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