Discoverability
The ease with which users can find new features or content within a product.
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“user efficiency”
Scent Trail
The path or sequence of actions users follow based on information scent to find their desired information.
Fitts’s Law
A predictive model of human movement that describes the time required to move to a target area, used to design user interfaces that enhance usability.
Wizard
A step-by-step guide that helps users complete a complex task by breaking it down into manageable steps.
Sludge
Any process or administrative barrier that unnecessarily complicates transactions and creates friction, discouraging beneficial behaviors.
Continuous Discovery
An ongoing process of learning about user needs and validating assumptions through continuous research and experimentation.
Friction
Elements in a process that cause resistance or slow down user actions, which can lead to frustration or be used intentionally to prevent errors and encourage deliberate actions.
HCI
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is the study of designing interfaces and interactions between humans and computers.
Pogo Sticking
A behavior where users repeatedly bounce back and forth between a search engine results page and individual search results.