Naming TransformAble2

Michael S Elledge elledge at msu.edu
Mon Oct 6 19:17:51 UTC 2008


I'm a little confused. Are we talking about the name for Transformable as a 
widget, or the link that would appear on a web page? 

Mike 

Daphne Ogle writes: 

> +1 for "User Interface Options" or  "User Interface Preferences" 
> 
> I was going to respond with only the latter but Anastasia's comment  
> convinced me that brevity and ease of rolling off the tongue are  
> pretty important too.  I like preferences because it is more personal  
> and we want to transform the interface to the user's personal needs. 
> 
> -Daphne 
> 
> On Oct 3, 2008, at 1:25 PM, Anastasia Cheetham wrote: 
> 
>>
>>> Interface Options
>>> Interface Preferences
>>> User Interface Options
>>> User Interface Preferences
>>> Personal Interface Options
>>> Personal Interface Preferences 
>>>
>>
>> +1 for "User Interface Options" 
>>
>> Interface alone, without anything in front of it, sounds more
>> technical than user interface, which is a very commonly used phrase.
>> User interface rolls off the tongue more easily than 'personal
>> interface', and 'options' rolls more easily than 'preferences' 
>>
>> My second choice would be Interface Options, for simplicity and  
>> brevity. 
>>
>> -- 
>> Anastasia Cheetham                   a.cheetham at utoronto.ca
>> Software Designer, Fluid Project    http://fluidproject.org
>> Adaptive Technology Resource Centre / University of Toronto 
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> Daphne Ogle
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> University of California, Berkeley
> Educational Technology Services
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