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Design characteristics are the properties and attributes of a design. These can be used as a checklist to develop requirements for a design. Design characteristics can also be used by designers to improve the quality and professionalism of work outputs. The following are common design characteristics.Accessibility | Cohesion – elements fit together | Color scheme | Compliance | Configurability | Consistency | Contrast & emphasis | Cost | Customization options | Ease of maintenance | Ease of use | Emotional appeal | Environmental impact | Error handling | Explorability & navigability | Features | Flexibility and versatility | Functionality | Gamification elements | Health & safety | Human error prevention | Iconography | Illustrations, photographs & other media | Information architecture | Information density – amount of information per screen | Interoperability | Languages | Layout & composition | Learnability | Look & feel | Materials | Narrative | Negative space | Performance | Personalization | Productive to use | Quality | Readability | Reliability | Repairability | Responsiveness | Reusability | Scalability | Scale and proportion | Security | | Shape & form | Style | Typography | Unity – sense that elements belong together | Usability | User engagement | Variety | Visual appeal | Visual balance | Visual cues |
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