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Subject:RE: What do we call this button? From:"Giordano, Connie" <Connie -dot- Giordano -at- FMR -dot- COM> To:"'Sanjay Srikonda'" <SSrikonda -at- invlink -dot- com>, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 18 Oct 2000 14:46:36 -0400
Just because lots of programs have it, doesn't mean typical end users
understand it or are comfortable with it. Why NOT call it what it is
instead of putting some mystical punctuation symbol? Ellipses buttons do
not rate high on usability scales.
MTC
Connie Giordano
-----Original Message-----
From: Sanjay Srikonda [mailto:SSrikonda -at- invlink -dot- com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 2:40 PM
To: 'Giordano, Connie'; TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: What do we call this button?
um, actually lots of programs have this "ellipsis" button, not to mention
Word and Outlook as well. I think it's a pretty common button actually.
-----Original Message-----
From: Giordano, Connie [mailto:Connie -dot- Giordano -at- FMR -dot- COM]
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 2:17 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: What do we call this button?
Tell the idiot programmers to rename the button List ... It's about 10
seconds of their time.
Nobody other than programmers EVER knows what the ellipsis by itself means.
Programs that have it usually have high annoyance factors from typical end
users.
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