Conceptual Model
How the designers wish you would think the product works.
Definition
The model of a system that a designer intends users to form, communicated only through the system image.
Craft convention. True because the industry converged on it. Breaking it costs familiarity, not correctness.
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In plain language
How the designers wish you would think the product works.
Example
A tool designed around documents and folders is offering a conceptual model that users already hold from file systems.
Local chart
TERM·010 · Region X · Grid C6
This entry and the entries it is stated to connect with. Each line is labelled with what the connection means.
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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.
- Match Between System and the Real WorldHEUR·002 · Heuristic
- Mental ModelsMOD·001 · Mental model
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Adjacent territory, found through shared tags rather than a stated link.