Principlev1
Design transition behaviors that connect the terminal link
Design transition behaviors that connect the terminal link of one chain to the first link of the next chain to eliminate cognitive dead zones between contexts.
Why This Is a Principle
This principle derives from The completion of one action can serve as a discriminative (completion of one action as cue for next), When a habit forms, neural activity spikes at the cue and (neural activity drops during routine execution), Open-Loop Cognitive Cost (Zeigarnik) (unresolved commitments consume working memory), Exponential Information Decay (information decay without rehearsal), and Directed Attention as Depletable Resource (executive function as finite resource). The principle prescribes how to connect chains across contexts to prevent cognitive resource depletion during transitions. It is general enough to apply across domains, actionable (design specific bridge behaviors), and not an axiom itself.