TRAPS

There is a large body of accumulated research knowledge on UI design, but it is hard to remember it all and even harder to use. UI Tenets & Traps is a tool attempting to synthesize this accumulated knowledge and put it in a form which practitioners can take action on. They are a general purpose UI evaluation tool, meant to be used to improve the quality of UI design early in the product life cycle... describe common design problems that degrade this goodness. Reduce Traps and the experience improves... They are distilled from a large body of existing UI heuristic tools and research.