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I'd like to add that behavior of the control is prior to the wording:
Assuming the user first selects the file, then submits:
Do you want to support selecting several files, before submitting?
Will a user be able to edit that list?
Is the path important?
The wording you choose depends largely on the behavior design. Just a quick example:
download ...
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In my opinion 'Choose Files' or 'Choose File' (for single file upload) is the best way. as said it's clear. and it isn't large.
My experiences with long labels for upload are that people ain't going to read what's on the label.
So limit your words to like 2 instead of 4 of more. (Choose files to upload) for example.
I hope it helps.
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I'm with Apple.
"Choose file" describes what you are actually doing.
I think "uploading" and "downloading" are always a bit confusing.
...uploading to the computer or from the computer ?
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Choose or Select are equally descriptive terms. Depending on your users, you could also choose to be more elaborate with something like Select files from your computer
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I would go with Dropbox's approach.
'Choose files' is clear enough to tell you the action it performs and concise enough to fit within two words. 'Select files' also works.
When labeling buttons, try to explain what the button does. Are choosing files and uploading two steps or a single step? Since in dropbox's case, you choose the files and then press ...
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I'd not include the second option. The action is to save the session. What happens if you take the user to session management to delete sessions manually? Does their session still gets saved or not? No matter what the answer is, you don't want to confuse your users with that.
The other two options are clear: either cancel (don't save, don't quit) or delete ...
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What you are effectively doing is replacing the oldest entry with the current one, so I would label it accordingly as:
Replace oldest session with current session
OR
Save current session over oldest session
In both situations, you may be able to leave 'session' out of both if it's clear to your users, but I would want to test this first.
For ...
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In most cases buttons don't have to follow the rules of grammar. Notice they rarely have periods even when, like yours, they are complete sentences. Use the choice with the fewest words that is not ambiguous. Apply the rules of usability in preference over grammar rules.
If you want to get grammatical and talk sentence construction rules. . .
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If you need multiple words on buttons, that shows that your form is too stuffed with contexts for doing different things.
One generally accepted paradigm for a large set of commands related to one main window is a hierarchical menu system.
If numerous different kinds of objects can be created, a possible representation for that is a toolbar, where the ...
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You have to think of your site as a persona talking to the user on every level.
The detail of how you employ grammar comes down to a brand guidelines concern. Either way you have the right message in general terms. You have to decide if your brand is terse for sake of efficiency, personal and welcoming, slightly irreverent, ...?
Take MooseJaw and Zappos ...
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Grammar largely depends on the language of the viewer
I have a few websites that I maintain that are read around the world. Rather than paying a company to rewrite all of the copy on the sites, we've been using the Google Translate Widget to allow visitors to convert the text from English into their own language automatically.
One of the things to consider ...
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You should limit the label to some action word if possible. This also makes it easier if you want to replace the label with an icon.
Add
Create
Import
And if the context is ambiguous, add a descriptor.
Image
Contact
Description
There are cases where you might want to skip the action and directly use the descriptors. Eg: for login, many sites just ...
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Let's start with the human action. Think about what your user would say if you asked him what he was trying to do. If he would say, “I want to compare the price,” then “Compare the price” is what you write on the button. These are what Jared Spool calls “trigger words.”
Now by looking at buttons, they are usually designed for actions, like to “Get a quote,” ...
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If it's clear, say it in the least number of words possible. If there is no confusion, then there is no problem.
"Import image" - clear.
"Create app" - clear.
"Add description" - clear.
For further reading, I suggest the Android Writing Style.
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You problem seems to be that you're collecting a number of buttons in the same list that are completely different from each other. Being in a single drop down menu implies a relationship between them that isn't there. Viewing system messages and marking an object as read are so far removed from each other, they should never be part of the same menu.
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The following trademarked PEGI descriptors (as Peter mentions) are shown below and used for videogaming. These are Europe wide classifications but in the UK replaced the BBFC ratings when the PEGI system was given a government approval.
Note that here PEGI have used the term descriptors as opposed to warnings or anything that is attempting to be positive or ...
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Don't bother the user with information about the system unless it directly impacts her. She only needs enough of a mental model to understand how things work with regards to her. (See the Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman for more information on users' mental models.) This means that you should only make minor edits to some of the action names ...
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Reddit uses a tag labeled "NSFW" (not safe for work).
The thumbnail is also blocked, like this:
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Here are the icons that the Dutch 'Kijkwijzer' (viewer guide) uses:
(There's also PEGI, an equivalent for computer games)
These are pretty clean indicators of what the content contains without any judgmental indicators like danger colors or exclamation points. I don't think you're allowed to use these icons, but you can take some inspiration from them.
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How about Ariel View? It sounds like you're offering an overhead view because you're showing many types of relationships that could only be seen from an overhead perspective. Ariel View works better as a header than Overhead View because it's shorter. It's probably clearer as well.
By Ariel View I mean something similar to Bird's Eye View. It means you're ...
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Grid view is generally used when you're showcasing stuff in a gallery fashion.
If you want something different, you can use a terminology and define them: Card view or magazine view like the feedly news reader does (image below).
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How about List/Details or Summary/Details?
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