atw: Re: Terminology
- From: "Tappe, Andrea" <Andrea.Tappe@xxxxxxx>
- To: "'austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 17:58:06 -0500
I am pretty uptight about menu names, window names etc etc being EXACTLY the
same in the docco as they do on the screen - I think most users are smart
enough to work out that NEW and NEW... are the same thing, but why would I
put them to all that mental effort?
Mind you, after I've written the docco, I'll generally wander down to the
programming team and have a little chat about the Wonderful World of
Usability (i.e. short, sensible menu names and no elipses!!)
Just my take on it..
Andrea
-----Original Message-----
From: Ilana Cohney [mailto:Ilana.Cohney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, 2 December 2003 9:16 AM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Terminology
Thanks all for your suggestions for making more "user friendly" teminology.
I did quite an interesting study of some existing databases and found that
the terminology used for the same functions differed widely, some terms
actually quite surprising. Anyone heard of a Word Wheel? It is quite some
bright spark decided to call a Lookup List.
Anyway, does anyone know of the significance of using an elipses ( ...) I
have seen them at the end of menu items, tooltips, popup windows and dialog
boxes. There does not seem to be any consistency about its usage. Some
terms such as Save ... or New ... use it while others such as Sort don't.
It seems to be especially popular by programers when naming popup windows
and dialog boxes. I find that they do not add anything to the documentation
but added clutter. Did you include them when naming menu items and windows
or leave them out? Should we get rid of them altogether?
Ilana Cohney
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