Design principle: Consistency The most known and most fragile design by Anton Nikolov UX Collective

In using the term I do not wish to imply – or deny for that matter – the involvement of conscious processing in the detection and resolution of inconsistency. The principle of consistency states that when two or more simultaneously active cognitive structures are logically inconsistent, arousal is increased, which activates processes with the expected consequence of increasing consistency and decreasing arousal. The function of a state of consistency is often assumed to be the avoidance of conflict in the production of behaviour and an increase in effectiveness of that behaviour (Berlyne, 1960; Collins, 1968; Gerard, 1968; Harmon-Jones, 2012; Ramachandran, 1996). A consistent cognitive system is a prerequisite to be able to accurately anticipate what is coming and to be able to adequately react to challenges and opportunities in the environment.

• The sole purpose of the consistency principle, or consistency concept, is to ensure that transactions or events are recorded in the same way, from one accounting year to the next.
• Once these goals have been entered, they act as a commitment and are displayed on the user’s dashboard, together with the user’s progress toward the goals.
• Using the consistency principle, a company will have a similar structure for its financial statements each period.
• The importance of the consistency principle is in its ability to ensure comparability of financial reporting.

Accounting policies and assumptions should be followed continuously from year to year in order for accountants and users of the financial statements to have clarity and avoid confusion. The Consistency Principle is important from both the accounting and auditing perspectives. For accountants, it provides a solid framework to record business transactions easily. For auditors, it assists in comparing financial statements with the previous year.

What is the consistency principle?

Products like Adobe Photoshop, originally released in the 1990s, and Google Gmail, released in the mid-2000s, are just a few of the widely popular products that exhibit this important rule of thumb. This article will teach you how to recognize consistency and standards and explain why they’re important in user interface design. One of the key principles of these standards is the GAAP consistency principle. The GAAP consistency principle states that when a business has fixed a method for the accounting treatment of an item, it will enter all similar items in the exact same way in the future. My father always reminds me that I am my own product, and not only do I get to design the way that I am and the way that I live my life, but I get to market to the world that version of myself I create.

A second comparison would be between the First-In, First Out (FIFO) method and the Last-in, First-out (LIFO) methods of reporting inventory. A bad example of consistency in the choice of UI elements appears in the comments section that BBC’s news website used to have in the past. The highest rated user comments are denoted by a south-facing arrow, yet users must click on the north-facing arrow to increase a comments rating. Using a south-facing arrow to represent the highest rated comments is also unintuitive; increasing numbers go up, not down.

According to the book, consistency is “the usability of a system is improved when similar parts are expressed in similar ways.” After reading much about the principle of consistency, a light switch in my head clicked. I realized that there is so much overlap between design and how we live our lives. Using a principle of design such as consistency, we can ultimately design not only better products, but also a better way of living for ourselves. The simplest way to what is posting in accounting impose the principle of self-consistency in quantum mechanics (in a classical space-time) is by a sum-over-histories formulation in which one includes all those, and only those, histories that are self-consistent. Most auditors will not provide their opinion on the reliability of the company’s financial statements if they find that the company has violated the consistency principle and have not provided enough disclosures or a good enough rationale to do so.

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This is where we begin to see the overlap of consistency in design and one’s life. You have to be consistent in the work that you do, so that it is always at the same level, even regardless of what that level that is to a certain person. If you do great work consistently, or even bad work consistently, being consistent is an achievement in itself.

The Novikov self-consistency principle, also known as the Novikov self-consistency conjecture and Larry Niven’s law of conservation of history, is a principle developed by Russian physicist Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov in the mid-1980s. Novikov intended it to solve the problem of paradoxes in time travel, which is theoretically permitted in certain solutions of general relativity that contain what are known as closed timelike curves. The principle asserts that if an event exists that would cause a paradox or any “change” to the past whatsoever, then the probability of that event is zero.

Internal consistency employs both functional and aesthetic consistency in order to create trust with people by suggesting that thought was put into the design, and it wasn’t just randomly thrown together. It shows professionalism and in turn, elicits a positive response from people. The Novikov consistency principle assumes certain conditions about what sort of time travel is possible. Specifically, it assumes either that there is only one timeline, or that any alternative timelines (such as those postulated by the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics) are not accessible. We shall embody this viewpoint in a principle of self-consistency, which states that the only solutions to the laws of physics that can occur locally in the real Universe are those which are globally self-consistent. This principle allows one to build a local solution to the equations of physics only if that local solution can be extended to a part of a (not necessarily unique) global solution, which is well defined throughout the nonsingular regions of the space-time.

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Checkboxes on the other hand should be used only when the user is allowed more than one option. In many ways, we can see how HTML5 beat out Flash technology as of late 2014. One of the reasons is arguably the ease of application and ease of use that developers, designers, and users can enjoy as a result of HTML5’s consistency and standards in defining their UI elements. Users tend to apply rules they’ve experienced outside of your website or product, bringing in a set of their own expectations. Knowing that, we should be mindful of whether or not we’re causing confusion and alienation when we deviate from design standards and conventions. Further, users should not have to spend time wondering whether different words, interactions, or actions actually mean the same thing within the context of your product.

• Using a south-facing arrow to represent the highest rated comments is also unintuitive; increasing numbers go up, not down.
• In cases where you might need to change the accounting method or principles that you use in your business for a valid reason, then the effects of this change need to be clearly disclosed in your company’s financial statements.
• When you have several different people recording data, compiling reports, and performing other financial documentation, the Consistency Principle is seldom followed.

For example, if a business uses the straight-line method to calculate depreciation on its motor vehicles in 2015 but changes the method to the declining balance approach for the next year, the accounts for these two years will not be comparable. Sometimes, an accountant has to deal with issues that can be handled by a variety of principles (e.g., depreciation on fixed assets, valuation of stock, etc). This principle stresses that the accountant should select one approach and apply it consistently.

Importance of Consistency

The consistency principle of accounting states that once an entity has adopted a certain practice and method, it should use the same practice and method for subsequent events of the same nature unless there is a sound reason to switch. In other words, businesses should not use a certain accounting method one year, and a different accounting method the next year. This however does not mean that business are required to stick with the same accounting method forever, they are allowed to change their method, but this change will need to be accounted for. The sole purpose of the consistency principle, or consistency concept, is to ensure that transactions or events are recorded in the same way, from one accounting year to the next. We’ve given one consistency concept in accounting example above with the case of cash vs accrual methods.

But it’s one that can be tackled, says Cialdini, by using consistency — and by asking

potential donors to take small steps toward true commitment before then asking them to chip in financially. It’s

known as the “foot-in-the-door technique,” and it leverages the principle of consistency perfectly. The Commitment and Consistency principle works so well because humans view consistency as a positive social trait, so they strive to be consistent. Disastrous decision making can happen because people want to be perceived to be consistent. Consistency can be extended by adding new behaviors to design experience.

Failing to utilize commonly used visual representations will force the user to consciously engage with the user interface in a way that is uncomfortable, which reduces the speed at which they could be navigating and performing desired tasks. Scaring your user with a serious and threatening error message when they’re browsing an ecommerce site that exhibits an overall friendly tone will be sure to kill an otherwise good user experience, for instance. The language you use in both marketing copy as well as the wording used throughout the user flow can not only influence your user’s perception of your product, but also be a point of confusion when you use different terminology to represent the same thing.

Consistency allows us to keep the order in things, but that doesn’t mean that the rules of consistency can’t be bent. You should be able to do things outside of the box, and be different every once and a while because after all, that’s what makes life interesting. Consistency pushes us to keep working hard, and push our limits to be an even better version of ourselves.

Auditors are especially concerned that their clients follow the consistency principle, so that the results reported from period to period are comparable. This means that some audit activities will include discussions of consistency issues with the management team. An auditor may refuse to provide an opinion on a client’s financial statements if there are clear and unwarranted violations of the principle. The consistency principle, however, does not dictate that a company must use a certain accounting policy forever. If a company wishes to switch to another accounting method, it must provide the rationale to do so in terms of how the new methodology is better than the older one.

Quantum computation with a negative delay

The authors conclude that hence,

Deutsch’s condition is not specific to quantum physics, nor does it depend on the quantum nature of a physical system so that it can be fulfilled. In consequence, Tolksdorf and Verch argue that Deutsch’s condition is not sufficiently specific to allow statements about time travel scenarios or their hypothetical realization by quantum physics. The consistency principle means that the company should use the same accounting policies and procedures in preparing its financial reports to ensure comparability of its financial information from year to year.

In the case of our fitness resolution, it could easily have been an off-hand, seemingly inconsequential comment made over a glass of New Year’s Eve champagne. Or, in the case of my parents, it was a dismissive response to my pleas for a dog. My father would reply, “Maybe when you’re older” in hopes I would forget. The key would be to not only discuss the problem with the employee, but also get the employee to put down, in

writing, why arriving at the office at the appointed time is consistent with something he or she values at work.

­This sequence of actions takes advantage of users’ previous commitment to post the review and of their aversion to data loss (“Well, I’ve already done all this work, I might as well sign up and not lose it.”). In the world of psychology, this is a principle known as “consistency,” and according to Robert Cialdini, it’s one of the six key

principles behind the science of persuasion. Sunk cost is a term that originated in economics and describes money that has been spent and cannot be recovered.