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anti-patterns
behavioural economics
hurdles
interface design
Nielsen and Molich's 10 User Interface Design Guidelines
project management
proverbs
psychology
software development
statistics
5S/6S
A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.
ACID references: 
Actor–observer asymmetry
All models are wrong, but some are usefull.
Alterior Motive
Amara’s law
Barnum effect
Betteridges’s law
Bike shed effect
Brandolini’s law
Brewer’s theorem (CAP theorem)
Brooks’s law references: 
Buridan’s ass references: 
Buzzword
Catch 22
Claasen’s law references: 
Clarke’s First Law
Clarke’s Second Law
Clarke’s Third Law
Conflict of Interest
Conway’s law
CRUD references: 
Cunningham’s law
Dark Pattern
Delmore effect
Demeter’s law references: 
Dilbert principle references: 
Don't be afraid of growing slowly, be afraid of standing still.
Dunning–Kruger effect
Eating your own dog food
Eventual consistency references: 
Feature creep references: 
Finagle’s law
Fitts’s law
Fredkin’s paradox references: 
Fundamental attribution error
Gall’s law
Gaslighting
GDPR-compliance
Goodhart’s law
GRASP
Hanlon’s razor
Hard-easy effect
Hick’s law
Hidden Agenda
Hitchens’s razor
Hobson’s choice
Hofstadter’s law
Hostile attribution bias
Hotelling’s law
Humphrey’s law
Hutber’s law
Hyperbolic discounting
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
IKEA effect
Illegal
Insanity
Irrational escalation
ISO 9000
ISO/IEC 25000
ISO/IEC 27000
It’s not the whistle that pulls the train.
Jakob’s law
Jevons paradox
Joy’s law
Kernighan’s Law
KISS principle
Kranzberg’s laws
Law of Proximity
Law of Prägnanz
Le Chatelier’s principle
Linus’s law
Low Morale
Lubarsky’s law
Malicious Intent
Maslow’s hammer
Math class is tough! Want to go shopping?
Metcalfe’s law
Miller’s article
Modality effect
Mooers’s law
Moore’s law
Muphry’s law
Murphy’s law
Naïve realism
No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney.
Norvig’s Law
Not invented here
Occam’s razor
Palimpsest
Pareto principle
Parkinson’s law references: 
Paxos references: 
Peltzman effect
Perfect is the enemy of good. references: 
Peter principle
Pollyanna principle
Postel’s law
Prestige Project
PRINCE2
Procrastination
Proverbs run in pairs.
Putt’s law
Reinventing the wheel
Rosy retrospection
Rules are made to be broken.
Sayre’s law
Seagal’s Law
Second-system effect references: 
Segal’s law
Self-serving bias
Semmelweis reflex
Serial position effect
SMART criteria
SNAFU principle references: 
Snowclone
Sod’s law
SOLID
Sowa’s law of standards
Spotlight effect
Status quo bias
Stein’s law
Sturgeon’s revelation
Survivorship bias
SWOT analysis
Tesler’s law
The customer is always right.
The law is tough, but it is the law. references: 
To err is human.
To make an omelet, one has to break eggs.
Tragedy of the commons
Trust everybody, but always cut the cards.
Tufte’s Rule "1+1=3"
Tunnel vision
Unrealistic Expectations
Van Loon’s law
von Restorff effect
We’ll be crying all the way to the bank.
Why keep a dog and bark yourself?
Wiio’s laws
Wirth’s law references: 
Wittgenstein’s ladder references: 
Wittgenstein’s maxim
Worse is Better references: 
Yerkes–Dodson law
Yesterday is gone.
Yhprum’s law
You aren’t gonna need it
Zawinski’s law references: 
Zero-One-Infinity rule
Visibility of system status
Match between system and the real world references: 
User control and freedom
Consistency and standards
Error prevention
Recognition rather than recall references: 
Flexibility and efficiency of use
Aesthetic and minimalist design
Help users recognize, diagnose and recover from errors
Help and documentation
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