# Mutable General Design Guidelines

## Goals

### 1. Consistency

Since the user is expected to use a combination of the dashboard and the local app and cannot stick to a single interface, it is very important that the interfaces be consistent with each other so as to provide the user with a consistent, unified and all-around engaging experience using the platform.

### 2. [?] Internationalization

Since we want users across regions and cultures to use the platform, it becomes important that the interfaces are internationalized properly to fit the context of the user as opposed to the user having to fit to the context of the app.

### 3. Simplicity

We want the interfaces to be simple, non-cluttered and obvious to use. The user shouldn't have to be trained to use the platform and should need minimal exposure to the documentation. As a rule of thumb, dwell on the principle of least astonishment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment).

## Non-Goals

`write some non-goals here`