Alternate titles: Options, Preferences.
The user needs a central place to indicate preferences for how the application should behave
▲ Pinterest has grouped its settings into manageable chunks, which lets the user customize the experience to his specifications.
A collection of 60 User Interface design patterns, presented in a manner easily referenced and used as a brainstorming tool.
Get your deck!Let users indicate their preferences for how your product should behave. Provide a central place for users to customize your product to their specifications. Keep configurable options well-organized, predictable, and manageable in number. Group and move less important settings to their own screens.
Let the user be able to quickly understand all available settings and their current values. If there are many settings to comprehend, prioritize the ones most likely to interest users. Group and move less important settings to seperate screens.
Consider good initial values for preferences – choose the default most users would choose and be neutral and pose little risk.
To avoid in-comprehensive lists of preferences, consider clustering settings into multiple shorter lists. Good heuristics are (you might change numbers):