Individual skill

hicks-law

Use this skill whenever a design has many options the user must choose among — menus, navigation, pickers, plan tiers, settings panels, action toolbars, lists of templates, anything that asks "which one?" Trigger when the user is laying out a navigation menu, designing a settings page, picking the structure of a wizard, building a country/timezone/currency picker, designing a pricing table, or reviewing a UI where users hesitate over which control to use. Trigger when there's debate about "should we add another option?" — Hick's Law is the principle that costs the option a price. Routes to sub-aspect skills for menus, defaults, and pricing.

plugins/cognition-and-learnability-principles/skills/hicks-law/SKILL.md

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Yes

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Yes

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Yes

Observed behavior

Instructions only

Last checked

Nov 6, 2026

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