Clear First, Clever Second — Wording your UI (with slidedeck)

Re:Clear First, Clever Second — Wording your UI (with slide... by typicalrunt on Friday September 16, 2011 @12:13PM (#3005046)

There are some good examples in this slide deck, but it seems to be lacking a deeper explanation of "why" the author came to each conclusion.

There is a reason companies choose abstract words for their products. If the Wii was still "Nintendo Revolution", it would quickly become un-revolutionary. If Twitter was called "Status" or "Update", they would be narrowly defining their intent for the product. Abstract names don't carry the baggage of a definition.

As an aside: I am coming to hate these slide decks filled with one-liners and little context. Why can't we get a transcript of what the speaker was saying for each slide?

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Re:Clear First, Clever Second — Wording your UI (with slide... by destraynor on Friday September 16, 2011 @01:29PM (#3005389)

You sure can. But I have to go write that up too.

The Why was explained in the talk itself , naturally. The video will be posted

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Re:Clear First, Clever Second — Wording your UI (with slide... by dirtyaura on Friday September 16, 2011 @02:20PM (#3005614)

destraynor, thanks for the presentation, a lot of good thinking there. Subtle differences between "verbs" and "nouns" of interfaces and cultures they create inside social networking services is one of the reasons that I don't believe in the idea of federated social networks, i.e. sharing superficially similar content "nouns" and "verbs" between social networks.

Waiting for the video of the talk!

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