Mental models/Jakob's Law
Cognitive Load & Information Processing

Jakob's Law

Jakob Nielsen's principle that users prefer products that work the same way as other products they already know.

In plain language

Users spend most of their time on other products. They expect yours to work the way those do. Deviation has a cost.

In the wild

Implementations of this model aren’t wired to this view yet — they live in the implementations table.

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