Optimize for the end-user experience unless the cost violates an explicit constraint. Use when product, UX, API design, or feature-scope tradeoffs arise.
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name: principle-experience-first
description: Optimize for the end-user experience unless the cost violates an explicit constraint. Use when product, UX, API design, or feature-scope tradeoffs arise.
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# Experience First
## Trigger
When product, UX, API design, or feature-scope tradeoffs arise.
## Rule
Optimize for the end-user experience unless the cost violates an explicit constraint.
## Application
1. Name the concrete decision this principle changes.
2. Apply the rule to that decision, not as a decorative citation.
3. Prefer evidence from the current repository/runtime over generic preference.
4. If the principle conflicts with an explicit user constraint, keep the constraint and state the tradeoff.
