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How to ThinkIn the Age of AI
Principlev1PR-789

Place materials for the next behavior at the physical…

Place materials for the next behavior at the physical location where the current behavior completes to reduce transition friction and support automatic chaining.

Why This Is a Principle

Derives from Physical proximity and visibility of objects… (physical proximity determines interaction likelihood), Action possibilities exist in the relationship between… (affordances exist in agent-environment relationship), and The completion of one action can serve as a discriminative… (completion of one action cues the next). Environmental design reduces the gap between links.