6. Benefits of a conforming to a mental model
The benefits of conforming to the user's mental model are:
- Makes the interface predictable
- Easy to learn
- Easy to use
- Simple to guess where controls are likely to be
- Transferable skills, so another application using the same ideas will be equally easy.
The problems with an non-conforming interface
- Difficult to learn quickly
- Harder for the user to guess where things are
- Mistakes more likely
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