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Principles for Considerate Products

  1. Considerate products take an interest

  2. Considerate products are deferential

  3. Considerate products are forthcoming

  4. Considerate products use common sense

  5. Considerate products use discretion

  6. Considerate products anticipate people’s needs

  7. Considerate products are conscientious

  8. Considerate products don’t burden you with their personal problems

  9. Considerate products keep you informed

  10. Considerate products are perceptive

  11. Considerate products are self-confident

  12. Considerate products don’t ask a lot of questions

  13. Considerate products fail gracefully

  14. Considerate products know when to bend the rules

  15. Considerate products take responsibility

  16. Considerate products help you avoid awkward mistakes

Help needed for "Principles for Considerate Products"!

The following is missing from this set of principles:

Source:A link to the principles or an article about them e.g. 

source: http://example.com

Summary: Each design principle can have a brief summary, these could be a couple of lines or a detailed paragraph outlining how this principle is used or measured, e.g.

- principle: Strive to be universal
summary: Our aim is to be a resource that is helpful to everyone. We do this by strictly adhering to principles of progressive enhancement…

It would be great if you could contribute and update this set of principles with anything that's missing!

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