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Please get to know how comprehensively the heuristics have been condensed into that short list from a much longer list of ovservations and decades of research.

To take into account the remaining subjectivity, there is usability testing. Most findings start to repeat themselves after 5 representative test subjects. But if you don’t test at all, you’re just shooting in the dark, as may have been with this gnome design.



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