Unforgiven: user-interface labels
A tricky issue in application design is the need to name everything in the user-interface, leading to new words and new usages for old words. Problems arise when a new meaning displaces the old, but only for the software developer and not, crucially, for the user. As a developer, can you put yourself in the mind of the user? Perhaps - developers usually like to think so. So what does ‘format’ mean? (more…)
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