[IxDA Discuss] Meaningful labels

[Tori Egherman]

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>
> Tori,
> Were you frustrated that
> A) they clicked a particular button without considering its implications
> or


B) they couldn't comprehend a language of which they had insufficient
> knowledge
> or
> C) there is some imagined expectation that a powerful machine could be
> used
> without reading words? (This third item is not meant to be facetious.) Or
> maybe it's not a deliberately imagined thing... maybe it's just an
> undeniable practice and the consequences are what they are? Sort of makes
> me
> think of Homer Simpson at that nuclear reactor control panel.
>
> Thanks, Jack
>
> Jack, All of the above. The point being that "ok" usually means that
things will be fine. That is the way most people interpret "ok". Most people
don't associate "ok" with an action that will delete files or alter
something.

The other point being that normal actions are so often broken up with
meaningless dialog boxes that many people get into the habit of clicking ok
without reading the message. Not a good design principle to begine with.

Hey, and most of us are more like Homer Simpson than we would like to admit.


Time for beer and donuts,

Tori