software-laws

Reference guide for 56 canonical laws, principles, and heuristics of software engineering — Conway's Law, Brooks's Law, Hyrum's Law, YAGNI, DRY, SOLID, CAP theorem, and more. Triggers when discussing architectural trade-offs, team scaling, process design, code quality principles, or decision-making heuristics, to provide succinct historically-grounded guidance.

Reference guide for 30 canonical laws, principles, and effects of user experience design — Hick's Law, Fitts's Law, Jakob's Law, Miller's Law, Peak-End Rule, the Gestalt principles, and more. Triggers when discussing interface trade-offs, usability decisions, information architecture, attention and memory constraints, or persuasive design heuristics, to provide succinct evidence-grounded guidance.