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Mental Model

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Use when the design will be used by people who bring prior expectations — which is essentially every design. Trigger when designing onboarding, when picking metaphors (folders, channels, projects), when reviewing why users keep getting confused, when migrating from one product convention to another, or when the user mentions "users don''t understand," "they keep doing X wrong," or "we''re inventing something new." Mental Model is one of the foundational principles in ''Universal Principles of Design'' (Lidwell, Holden, Butler 2003) and grounds most modern user-experience design.

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Claude CodeCodexCursorGitHub CopilotGemini CLI

Supported by the Atlas install prompt. Skill-specific requirements vary.

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Use when the design will be used by people who bring prior expectations — which is essentially every design. Trigger when designing onboarding, when picking metaphors (folders, channels, projects), when reviewing why users keep getting confused, when migrating from one product convention to another, or when the user mentions "users don''t understand," "they keep doing X wrong," or "we''re inventing something new." Mental Model is one of the foundational principles in ''Universal Principles of Design'' (Lidwell, Holden, Butler 2003) and grounds most modern user-experience design.

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About this listing

Category
General
Reported license
Apache-2.0
Listing language (estimated)
English
Review status
Not individually reviewed
Agent compatibility
Atlas installation supports Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. Skill-specific dependencies and features are checked during setup.
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