Design Principles 101

Summary: Design principles are value statements that guide designers in making the right tradeoff-type decisions in UX design contexts.

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Maria Rosala is the Director of Research at Nielsen Norman Group. She leads and oversees research at NN/g, trains teams around the world on UX topics, and works with clients to help them improve the user experience of their products and services.

 

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