Release Log

New pages3

• Cognitive Models of Information Retrieval
• Decision Fatigue
• Principle of Least Privilege

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• Alarm Fatigue
• Ambiguity Effect
• Anchoring Effect
• Aspect Ratio
• Banner Blindness
• Change Blindness
• Chartjunk
• Choice Architecture
• Curb Cut Effect
• Dark Patterns
• Default Effect
• Denomination Effect
• Explainability
• Lindy Effect
• Line Length
• Müller-Lyer Illusion
• Negative Space
• Nudge Theory
• Picture Superiority Effect
• Principle of Least Astonishment
• Processing Fluency
• Satisficing
• Silver Ratio
• Social Proof
• Visual Search

Improvements

• A Release Log page, linked from the footer, and the RSS feed in all six languages.
• The home page now lists 70 references, and item titles are slightly bolder.
• Ten new entries in People, from Herbert A. Simon to Harry Brignull.

Improvements

• An Other group on the home page for references that aren’t about a kind of page.
• Every footer now carries the copyright line.

New pages2

• Ebbinghaus Illusion
• Survivorship Bias

Improvements

• Copy any illustration as a PNG image, not just as SVG.

New pages2

• Microsoft’s 18 AI Guidelines
• UI Tenets and Traps

Improvements

• Phones use one consistent side margin, with tighter spacing around card groups.

Improvements

• Home page illustrations assemble as you scroll.
• Placeholders stand in while a translation loads, and every font size sits on one type scale.

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• Zipf’s Law

Improvements

• A not-found page that matches the rest of the site.
• Accessibility: visible focus rings, search results you can move through by keyboard, and closed panels hidden from screen readers.
• A sticky bar on phones keeps the page title, bookmark, and share in reach.

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• Canons of Page Construction
• Golden Ratio
• Human-in-the-Loop
• Out-of-the-Loop Problem
• Rule of Odds
• Rule of Thirds
• Stroop Effect

Improvements

• When to Use and How to Use sections on every reference page.
• Portraits of the people behind the laws, and an RSS feed of new pages.

Improvements

• A fact check corrected 24 pages, People, and the Glossary in all six languages.

Improvements

• Search opens as a full-width results sheet, and bookmarks open in a sheet with a count and Clear all.
• On phones, theme and language become two dropdowns side by side.

Improvements

• Search on phones drops in as a second row instead of hiding the top bar.

Improvements

• French, German, and Spanish pages get web addresses in their own language.
• A Help panel with keyboard shortcuts: press ? for help and / to search.

Improvements

• Universal Icons illustrations now use real Lucide icons.

Improvements

• An accuracy audit applied 21 corrections across pages, People, and By Year.
• Related links rechecked so that every one is on topic.

Improvements

• Section pills jump between home page groups, and a back-to-top button appears on every page.
• Layouts tuned for tablets and phones.

Improvements

• Page Type groups get screen illustrations, and a Chat group for conversational pages and side panels.
• A navy blue theme joins the theme options.

Improvements

• Copy any illustration as SVG from the button that appears on hover.

Improvements

• Page Type and Task Type tabs on the home page, with each reference in exactly one Page Type group.

Improvements

• A second home page view groups references by the kind of page they apply to.
• Every home page description shortened to seven words or fewer.

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• Aesthetic-Usability Effect
• Automation Bias
• Chesterton’s Fence
• Cognitive Load Theory
• Contour Bias
• Conway’s Law
• Curse of Knowledge
• Data Visualization
• Doherty Threshold
• Eye-Scanning Patterns
• Fitts’s Law
• Fogg Behavior Model
• Gall’s Law
• Gestalt Principles
• Goodhart’s Law
• Grid and Hierarchy
• Gutenberg Principle
• Hick’s Law
• Hofstadter’s Law
• Hook Model
• IKEA Effect
• Jakob’s Law
• Miller’s Law
• Navigation Patterns
• Nielsen’s 10 Heuristics
• Norman’s Principles
• Paradox of Choice
• Pareto Principle
• Peak-End Rule
• Postel’s Law
• Power Law of Practice
• Progressive Disclosure
• Rams’ 10 Principles
• Serial Position Effect
• Shneiderman’s Eight Golden Rules
• Steering Law
• Tesler’s Law
• Tognazzini’s First Principles
• Uncanny Valley
• Universal Icons
• Von Restorff Effect
• WCAG and POUR
• Weber-Fechner Law
• Yerkes-Dodson Law
• Zeigarnik Effect

Improvements

• UX Guidelines launches in six languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese.
• Glossary, People, By Year, and Site Map pages, plus bookmarks, sharing, and a share image for every page in every language.