The correct way to safely drive a car is intuition – not a "mental model" of anything. That's why experienced drivers drive so much more safely than novice one

The correct way to safely drive a car is intuition – not a "mental model" of anything. That's why experienced drivers drive so much more safely than novice ones. It's certainly not because in the meantime, they somehow learned how the throttle works internally. The same basic lesson applies to software. The best design is the one that lends itself most to human intuition. Because when saving a photo from an image editor, users sure as hell aren't thinking "now an inode is created with this and that metadata".