Sovereign Posture

This is a term invented by Alan Cooper in his seminal work The Essentials of Interaction Design (buy it; it's brilliant). A program that runs in sovereign posture takes over the user's screen, and provides a launch site for all the functions they require to complete a domain-specific task. The TWiki "view" screen is SovereignPosture, because it acts as a launchpad for other more TransientPosture applications, such as the "more settings" and "edit" screens.

See this article by Cooper describing the main application postures.

See also: TransientPosture, DaemonicPosture

-- Contributors: CrawfordCurrie - 22 Jul 2007

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