For inexperienced editors described in this profile some usability principles count the most:
- Suitability for learning
- Self descriptiveness
- Error tolerance
- Conformity with user expectations
- Suitability for the task
The user interface should be "intuitive" and provide enough help information so that the user gets along with his task without having to consult the end user documentation each and every time he wants to perform a new task or spend hours with "trial and error" to figure out how he did the same thing some while ago. Further, since the user does not know the pitfalls of the system yet or can't remember them since he's not oftenly using the system, the software should pay special attention on error tolerance, e.g. by avoiding errors with constraining the possible input for a text field or by providing meaningful messages once an error occured.