Wu patterns in numerical order

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1. ESTABLISH THE BUSINESS OBJECTIVES
2. BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL
3. ESTABLISH THE USE CASES>
4. TIMEBOXES
5. GRADUAL STIFFENING
6. AUTOMATED TESTING
7. USABILITY TESTING
8. GET-IT?
9. RETEST WHEN CONTENT UPDATED
10. TWO-YEAR-OLD BROWSER
11. CLASSIFY YOUR SITE
12. SITE MAP
13. USER-CENTRED SITE STRUCTURE
14. SEARCH BOX
15. SENSE OF LOCATION
16. AESTHETICS
17. CONTEXT SENSITIVE HELP
18. PRIMING AND INTERFERENCE
19. STRUCTURED MENUS
20. THE RHETORIC OF ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE
21. CANONICAL LOCATION
22. SYMMETRY AND IDEMPOTENCY
23. BREADCRUMBS
24. SITE LOGO AT TOP LEFT
25. NAVIGATION BAR
26. THREE-REGION LAYOUT
27. NO FRAMES ON PUBLIC SITES
28. HOME PAGE
29. TRITE FOUNTS
30. THE HUMAN TOUCH
31. LINKS TO MANY SITES
32. AVATAR
33. CONTEXT-SENSITIVE CONTACT LINK
34. GO BACK TO A SAFE PLACE
35. BACK BUTTON
36. FOLLOW STANDARDS
37. PRISONER OF WAR
38. KISS
39. EXPLOIT CLOSURE
40. NO MODES
41. FEEDBACK
42. DOWNLOAD TIME
43. DESIGN PAGES FOR SCANNING
44. SHORT TEXTS
45. ANCHORS AWAY
46. NO UNPLEASANT SURPRISES
47. SEPARATE PRINT PAGES
48. SENSE OF PROGRESS
49. FINAL SLASH ON URLS
50. ACCEPTABLE WORDING
51. THE HALT AND THE LAME AND THE STRANGER AT THE DOOR
52. INTERNATIONALIZATION
53. USE OF COLOUR
54. TESSELATE GRAPHICS
55. CONTENT BEFORE GRAPHICS
56. NATURAL METAPHORS
57. WORDS BEFORE ICONS
58. WHITE SPACE SEPARATES CONTENT
59. BROKEN BUTTONS
60. MAGIC MARGINS
61. TRACK MULTIPLE IDENTICAL REQUESTS
62. UNIQUE NAMES FOR PAGES, TITLES AND META-TAGS
63. CONTEXT-DEPENDENT SEARCH CATEGORIES
64. STORE CONTENT IN A DATABASE
65. EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
66. AVOID PRE-EMPTION
67. CACHE TRANSACTIONS
68. RETURN VISITORS
69. SUPPORT COLOUR WITH SPATIAL METAPHOR
70. WYSIWYCU
71. MANDATORY FIELDS
72. SECURITY AND ENCRYPTION
73. OBLIQUE LANDMARKS
74. PARANOID SECURITY
75. SENSE OF LOCATION IN WORKFLOW
76. CONTENT IS LINKED TO NAVIGATION
77. BUTTON GRAVITY
78. PIPELINE INTERACTION
79. DISPLAY THE OPTIONS