Timeline for Will users misunderstand "Last week", "Last year", "Last month" etc?
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| Jun 30, 2016 at 7:04 | comment | added | Sweeper | @VerenaHaunschmid I am targeting just normal users. The Google AdSense app seems to use "Last 30 days" in a dropdown menu. But I'm too lazy to implement such a thing, so I stuck with the accepted answer | |
| Jun 28, 2016 at 11:31 | comment | added | Verena Praher | @Sweeper For me it would not be confusing then but I am a technically advanced user. It probably depends on what kind of users you are targeting. So probably you should stick with the solution in the accepted answer. Have you checked how other apps are handling it? | |
| Jun 28, 2016 at 11:15 | comment | added | Sweeper | @VerenaHaunschmid each result will have a date associated with it. The user can select how the results are sorted: whether earlier results appear first or last, or whether to sort alphabetically. So I guess if the user wants to sort the results alphabetically, they might need a little deduction to figure this out. | |
| Jun 28, 2016 at 11:09 | comment | added | Verena Praher | Is it visible from the result of the search what is meant? Then they will get used to it even if some might be confused at first. | |
| Jun 26, 2016 at 9:48 | comment | added | Fabian Blechschmidt | @UweKeim you are right - or at least kind of. Depending on where one is, it is the one or the other. Whatever, it seems last/previous month is definitly NOT the last 30days for me, everything else I can "accept" ;-). Whatever, it is ambigious so a bad term :) | |
| Jun 26, 2016 at 3:18 | comment | added | intcreator | There is a difference between "last 365 days" and "last year." If today is June 25, 2016, then "last 365 days" means "from June 26, 2015 to June 25, 2016" where "last year" could mean "from January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015" to some users. | |
| Jun 24, 2016 at 13:18 | comment | added | Uwe Keim | @FabianBlechschmidt I guess "previous" is a better translation than "last". "Last" seems kind of slang to me ("letzte Woche" ist eigentlich die "vorherige Woche" IMO). | |
| Jun 24, 2016 at 8:54 | history | protected | Benny Skogberg | ||
| Jun 23, 2016 at 20:20 | answer | added | flowey | timeline score: 1 | |
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| Jun 22, 2016 at 4:44 | answer | added | Stephenye | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jun 21, 2016 at 19:39 | answer | added | Crissov | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 21, 2016 at 7:46 | answer | added | EKons | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 20, 2016 at 21:12 | answer | added | st3inn | timeline score: 19 | |
| Jun 20, 2016 at 18:33 | answer | added | plainclothes | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 20, 2016 at 13:57 | answer | added | njzk2 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 20, 2016 at 13:18 | answer | added | flornquake | timeline score: 72 | |
| Jun 20, 2016 at 12:33 | answer | added | MonkeyZeus | timeline score: 28 | |
| Jun 20, 2016 at 10:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackUX/status/744832513600790528 | ||
| Jun 20, 2016 at 9:59 | comment | added | JamesRyan | If something says it will show 'last month', people will expect the range to be the last calendar month not the last 30 days. | |
| Jun 20, 2016 at 9:23 | comment | added | Nick Gammon | If this was June (any date) I would expect "Last month" to be a search in (all of) May (and excluding June completely). | |
| Jun 20, 2016 at 9:22 | comment | added | PlasmaHH | "Will users misunderstand x" the answer is always yes, the real question is how many do and if you care about them. | |
| Jun 20, 2016 at 8:44 | comment | added | edc65 | I would be confused | |
| Jun 20, 2016 at 7:57 | vote | accept | Sweeper | ||
| Jun 20, 2016 at 7:46 | comment | added | Fabian Blechschmidt | In germany we distinguish between this and last month. So if I wanna search in june, I use this month, if I want to search in may I use last month. And neither of both is like last 30 days form me. | |
| Jun 20, 2016 at 6:06 | answer | added | Roger Attrill | timeline score: 126 | |
| Jun 20, 2016 at 5:24 | history | asked | Sweeper | CC BY-SA 3.0 |