Timeline for Convey the meaning of "any" without using words
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| May 22, 2020 at 0:52 | answer | added | Artelius | timeline score: -2 | |
| May 21, 2020 at 20:18 | answer | added | Naz | timeline score: 5 | |
| May 21, 2020 at 16:50 | comment | added | jamesqf | @vals: Exploring cheaper solutions is great, just make sure that it's a solution that actually WORKS for your user. Say your default language is English (and why shouldn't it be?). Then a quick visit through online dictionaries give Spanish "todas", French "toute/tout", Finnish "kaikki", Japanese "subete", Latin "omnis, Gaelic "ar fad", and so on for about a hundred different languages. | |
| May 21, 2020 at 13:49 | comment | added | vals | @James Yes, I could. But this an expensive solution, and I am exploring cheaper ones. The items in the dropdown come from a "select distinct * from *" in the SQL, I would need to add a layer that knows what is the correct label from every select, and I am trying to avoid it. | |
| May 21, 2020 at 13:00 | comment | added | James | You could expand the wording to be "All Ratings" or "All Grades" or "All Elephants", it wouldn't be confusing for the user, and the translator would get the gender right. | |
| May 21, 2020 at 5:02 | comment | added | vals | @jamesqf Let's say that the default language is Spanish. Then, some of the dropdowns have the word "Todos" and others have the word "Todas". Now, lets translate it to french. "Tous" or "Toutes". But in some cases, an option is masculine in spanish and feminine in french . And your dictionary is not working anymore | |
| May 21, 2020 at 4:15 | comment | added | jamesqf | @Mark: So instead of asking your users to do something relatively simple, like consult a "your language" <-> "their language" dictionary, you instead send them off on the frustrating task of trying to figure out what your symbols mean. | |
| May 21, 2020 at 3:21 | answer | added | neonglow | timeline score: -1 | |
| May 20, 2020 at 22:50 | answer | added | EmmiitBrown | timeline score: -3 | |
| May 20, 2020 at 21:53 | answer | added | Kenster999 | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 20, 2020 at 20:10 | comment | added | Mark | @jamesqf, the problem with using words is that if you do so, you'll need to translate each dropdown individually. Some languages inflect the word for "all" based on the thing it's referring to, while others don't have a standalone word for "all" -- you need to say "all colors" or "all times" or "all whatever". | |
| May 20, 2020 at 17:00 | comment | added | jamesqf | Use words. Why do you assume that a star would convey the meaning "all"? Unless you're thinking that the user is familiar with the language of regular expressions, and somehow realizes that your star is really supposed to be an asterisk? | |
| May 20, 2020 at 16:45 | comment | added | vals | @lucidbrot In general, all and any have different meanings. But here they have the same meaning, but applied to different things. This is a filter , filtering a data set of results with the value of one of the properties. Not applying the filter can be thought as "any" value of the property, or "all" the records. (This was at least but I was thinking when I post the question) | |
| May 20, 2020 at 16:41 | comment | added | vals | @dionyziz Yes, it would be universally understanble..... and yes, I won't do that | |
| May 20, 2020 at 15:41 | comment | added | dionyziz |
This is universally understandable: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (I'm kidding, don't really do that)
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| May 20, 2020 at 14:55 | comment | added | lucidbrot | I'm confused by the mismatch between title and question body. I think there's a difference between "any" and "all" | |
| S May 20, 2020 at 14:27 | history | suggested | Sophie Swett | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Gender, not genre
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| May 20, 2020 at 13:34 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| May 20, 2020 at 10:22 | comment | added | RickN | Others' suggestion convey "absence of choice" is probably for the best. A symbol to convey "don't care", 🤷 U+1F937 Person Shrugging is not formal nor truly universal! | |
| May 20, 2020 at 9:45 | vote | accept | vals | ||
| May 20, 2020 at 8:58 | answer | added | Dante | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 20, 2020 at 8:51 | answer | added | dgstranz | timeline score: 7 | |
| S May 20, 2020 at 7:11 | history | suggested | Laurel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
grammar fixes
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| May 20, 2020 at 4:34 | answer | added | Codesigner | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 20, 2020 at 3:42 | comment | added | onosecond | The best way of solving this problem would be A/B Testing. Considering the current situation, have some remote interviews with some of your potential users. They would easily be able to help you out here, I would say. We here can only guess since you didn't even provide any information related to your user base and all; hence, we might not be able to provide the best solution. | |
| May 19, 2020 at 23:57 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| May 19, 2020 at 23:21 | comment | added | C'est Moi | What would be the aria label for the symbols? | |
| May 19, 2020 at 22:07 | answer | added | Matt | timeline score: -2 | |
| May 19, 2020 at 21:05 | answer | added | PhillipW | timeline score: -3 | |
| May 19, 2020 at 21:04 | answer | added | Joe_P | timeline score: 25 | |
| May 19, 2020 at 21:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackUX/status/1262850526070308864 | ||
| May 19, 2020 at 20:54 | answer | added | Mark | timeline score: 49 | |
| May 19, 2020 at 19:13 | history | became hot network question | |||
| May 19, 2020 at 14:22 | history | edited | Michael Lai♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 23 characters in body; edited tags
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| May 19, 2020 at 11:43 | answer | added | Chris | timeline score: 9 | |
| May 19, 2020 at 11:12 | history | asked | vals | CC BY-SA 4.0 |