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TermCraft conventionFoundational

Benchmark

A starting measurement so you can tell whether things improved.

Definition

A measurement taken to establish a baseline against which future change is compared.

Craft convention. True because the industry converged on it. Breaking it costs familiarity, not correctness.

In plain language

A starting measurement so you can tell whether things improved.

Example

Measuring task success and time before a redesign, so the after figures mean something.

Each link says what the connection is, so you can tell a principle from an alternative from a thing people mix this up with.

Deeper reading

The full entry behind this definition.

Nearby in the Atlas

Adjacent territory, found through shared tags rather than a stated link.