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mimicry-behavioral

Apply behavioral mimicry — making an interface element behave like a familiar physical object so the user's physical-world intuitions transfer to the digital interaction. Use when designing gestures, animations, transitions, drag-and-drop, scroll behaviors, or any interaction where physical-world analogies could clarify the experience. Behavioral mimicry is more durable than visual skeuomorphism — physics-mimicking behaviors age well — but it requires deliberate calibration: too much physical fidelity slows the interaction down without communicating anything new.

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