Timeline for What is the clearest way to display "less than"?
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| May 19, 2020 at 21:05 | comment | added | Izhaki | @WPWPWP DRY does have its origin in programming and is normally seen as you have described. But concepts like "Single Source of Truth" are not unique to programming. There is also the "Multiple Representation Problem" and many other names to describe the same thing - whether it is process or state being duplicated, updates require more work hence higher maintenance and cost. The DRY you know is just a special case often applied in programming to a much more generic concept. Lastly, remember that redundancy is sometimes desired - like with DNA or CRC etc. | |
| May 19, 2020 at 19:55 | comment | added | WPWPWP | I think of "DRY" - Don't Repeat Yourself - as a much more of a programming concept rather than a UX concept, and have understood it to mean that if you are repeating a task, write one function for the task and call that function rather than writing the same function again and again and again and.... | |
| May 16, 2020 at 0:34 | comment | added | Stephen P | I disagree only on the DRY part - you want the screen reader to say "less than two point one miles", not just "less than two point one". Also, although it is technically redundant, I've seen actual user confusion over this kind of thing... they may not be looking at the units as stated under the slider, they're looking at the current value. There are other less-charitable reasons why some users won't "get it" without the otherwise redundant repetition of the units. | |
| May 14, 2020 at 19:11 | comment | added | bob | Yeah coming from a programming/math background, the less-than symbol is much easier for me to parse than the sentence form. So it very much depends on the target audience. | |
| May 14, 2020 at 15:19 | comment | added | Carsten S | @CarlKevinson, indeed, but it makes me not trust anything that is being said on that subject in this answer. | |
| May 14, 2020 at 13:28 | comment | added | Carl Kevinson | @CarstenS It took me a while to parse that too, but that's because "<" isn't a word, so it fits weird in a sentence. In the context of "< 2.1 miles", it's easy to parse. | |
| May 14, 2020 at 9:01 | comment | added | Ruslan | Your example with 60 is no good. First, the 60 appears inside a kind of arrow used on the maps, so it's not immediately obvious that this point is 60 °C, rather than e.g. "60 km from the point of temperature measurement" (yes, I'm exaggerating). Second, the scale already repeats "°C" in each tick, so 60 looks even more unrelated to the scale. In this example it should really be 60 °C, not simply 60. | |
| May 14, 2020 at 6:14 | comment | added | Carsten S | It took me a while to parse “is < clear than”. Same for “< ≠ <=”. | |
| May 13, 2020 at 23:41 | history | edited | Izhaki | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 13, 2020 at 14:54 | comment | added | Blackhole | "If you want sex just say it" also implies some conciseness (according to your own words). I guess it depends on the target audience, but for me "less than 5 milliseconds" is definitely less clear than "< 5 ms". | |
| May 13, 2020 at 14:48 | comment | added | chepner | DRY is in contradiction with the advice to say what you mean. Also, it might be redundant for someone who can see the scale and the label simultaneously, but it would not be for someone using a screen reader. | |
| May 13, 2020 at 11:30 | history | edited | Izhaki | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 12, 2020 at 22:43 | history | answered | Izhaki | CC BY-SA 4.0 |