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# Why a design language?
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Humans have an innate understanding for common, predictable and repeatable concepts. Our brains are, in fact, hardwired
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to take advantage of such phenomena, which is sometimes taken to great effects in optical illusions for example.
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Patterns emerge when concepts and actions, interlinked, construct a predictable outcome. With a common design language,
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we hope to achieve such predictability, and supply an innate understanding of user interaction.
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The goal isn't to have one and only design language, but to encourage new interfaces to take similar steps on their
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design processes.
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## Predictability and user experience
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A good book implies meaning, perhaps through environmental storytelling, or any other thought exercise that assumes
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a conscious, and rational reader capable of processing information. Not just present it.
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The same is true for a good UI, it shouldn't be explained, there should be an innate understanding.
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### User Interface Universal Language
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Web technologies as a whole contain a set of constraints for organizing web pages. This implies that all web pages have
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a common structural basis.
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Users accustomed to one social platform know which user interactions are acceptable in that platform and which aren't.
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The key puzzle is how users come to know these restrictions of their Web UI.
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