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This topic has appeared in the English Wikipedia rankings 1 time. It first appeared on 2026-05-23 and was most recently seen on 2026-05-23.
In user interface design and software design,
the principle of least astonishment (POLA), also known as principle of least surprise (POLS), proposes that a component of a system should behave in a way that most users will expect it to behave, and therefore not astonish or surprise users. The following is a corollary of the principle: "If a necessary feature has a high astonishment factor, it may be necessary to redesign the feature."
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