Questions tagged [wording]
Questions about the way something should be written for users to read and comprehend
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Options for "Cancel this operation?" are "Cancel" and "Yes"; what would be better wording for customers in a hurry?
I tried to buy a train ticket from a vending machine yesterday in a hurry and had some difficulty navigating the English menus (Chinese is the default language). I was trying to back up one step, but ...
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Are software filters ambigous?
In the physical world filters can filter something and:
A) I'm interested in what goes through, what is not filtered out:
air/water/coffee/oil/..., signals in electronics, light in photography, etc. ...
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Asking for gender for room sharing (own and room mates)
I am co-organising a retreat in which participants will share rooms in groups of four.
I expect that some participants care about the gender of room mates, so I need to ask for participants for their ...
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"Analytics" vs "Stats"
I'm designing a dashboard for an e-commerce site. Inside it, there's a page where the store owner can see some data and charts about their sales, revenue, number of customers, etc.
What's the best ...
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Abbreviating FAQ or not
Is there any data on how widely the FAQ abbreviation is understood by users, especially those who are older, compared to the full form Frequently Asked Questions? I'm designing a web app that will ...
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Cancel Dialog Text - Is the wording here confusing?
I have a dialog that comes up when someone cancels creating a new piece of data.
They click cancel and the dialog says:
I’m worried this is confusing. What do you think?
Incase you can't see the ...
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Where can I find a singular to plural converter? [closed]
Can anyone please help me find an ONLINE singular to plural (and visa versa) converter that will convert a list of words at once? I've found plenty that do one word at a time.
There are so many online ...
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To hyphenate or not to hyphenate: Grammatically correct or aesthetically pleasing text?
Marketing is asking us (Development) to change some UI text to be grammatically incorrect. Specifically, they're basically asking to remove hyphens from compound adjectives (e.g., 'thirty-foot ...
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What is the best way to make sure all casing is uniform for all titles in our platform?
I'm working on an internal app that requires users to input very long titles that almost always includes people's names.
These titles are obtained from legal documents where many times, it would ...
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How to unify states from the macro to the detail
I'm working on a product that manage workers certificates, and so we have a table with ALL certificates where you can find cards for each one
Each card has: Certificate name, Next due date (29 days ...
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Should checkbox label with passive adjective include word "is"?
My use case is that I have a checkbox that relates to object (card) and visually it is on that card. My question is: Is it better to form a label for the checkbox like "Hidden" or like "...
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How to label resources belonging to users in a two-sided marketplace?
I read great advice on “Your” vs “My” in user interfaces and 'My Account' or 'Your Account'?
But neither deals with the special case of two-sided marketplaces.
Example - airbnb clone
Suppose a user ...
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Do you think that terms such as manicure and hair stylist fall under the umbrella term of cosmetics services?
I am building an app where my customers will be businesses like hair salons,manicure etc.
Business users will have to register of course.
The (business) user when registering must say what type of ...
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How to name shops, cafes, entertainment centers in one word for good UX?
I'm not sure whether this is the right place to ask this kind of question.
We are launching a website for selling coupons. And there user can search coupons and companies(brands), like in google ...
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Referring to the position of an element in modern (responsive) design
This is such a common and basic issue that there must be an answer somewhere already, but I can't see it, so I'm wondering if I'm missing something. Should we avoid referring to the position of an ...
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"Go back home" or "Home" as CTA label in 404 page?
I'm working on a 404-page design, and after the title and description there is a CTA button
not sure to use which one?
is it better to use "Go back home" or just "Home" as button label for CTA
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"Images" or "Pictures" as a user term?
UX Writing question - which makes most sense to average app users: Images or Pictures as a user term?
Touchgram has a Picture Background on a page but I'm opening up the document type to be able to ...
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Valid to / Expiration date inclusive or exclusive
I have a form with a "Valid to" date field. This field represents the date in which something will expire.
Should the "Valid to" date be inclusive or exclusive?
E.g. Valid to = 04.02.2020. Should it ...
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Generic terms for currencies and cents
I am building a website which calculates the cost of owning a vehicle.
Among other fields, I need to ask the user to enter:
Cost of the vehicle
Fuel price per litre
The application should be ...
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Is the numeronym a11y accessible?
I joined a new company and I learned that I essentially got the job due to my past experience working with the British gov making some of their forms more accessible. This was a few years ago. I was ...
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Continue or Resume?
When presenting an opportunity for a user to continue an application process (the words are in a navbar) is 'resume...' considered worse than 'continue...' because 'resume' can be momentarily ...
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How can I unambiguously ask for a new user's "Display Name"?
At a U.S.-based company, I run an intranet system where all new users have to be requested by managers. The "Request New User" form has a single-field Display Name in which I'm hoping for an answer ...
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What's the difference between "Short URL", "Short Link", "Tiny URL" and "Tiny Link "?
What is a good way to get the wording that most resonates with the user through user testing?
Context:
We're working on developing an URL shortener product, but we're not sure which of the 4 names ...
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How to inform user that value of form field was removed?
We have some background processing on form and in the result, some of the form fields can become null.
So how should information message about this action look like?
The best option we have "The value ...
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Customer confusion with jargon
I am working with customers in an app that helps them visualize where their products are in the order management process. Recently with some testing I discovered that the users were confused by the ...
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Best phrase to invite user to choose one item
Users can create galleries and choose one to add to their profile. What's the best phrasing for this?
Below image shows item #1 has been selected (hence the color and the heart) and the mouse is ...
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using different tenses in different parts of the system
in one part of the system where the user creates forecast legend of the graph displays "forecast".
In another section of the system where a user uses the forecasting graph (but essentially it's the ...
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Ask for donations vs ask for investments
I have created this site: https://crypto4ngo.org
Project pages at the site ask to buy tokens (our own new cryptocurrency) by sending Ether (a kind of cryptocurrency) to a certain Ethereum address.
I ...
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User instruction wording - refresh browser / reload page?
In the event of an API error in our web app, we display some informational text as follows:
[error icon]
Something went wrong
<Instructions here>
For the instructions, we are ...
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Alternative Words for Show, Hide, Done, or Collapse?
I am working on a computer application and from a design aspect, I would like my application to be as intuitive as possible. I currently have a panel that is displayed via a menu strip and that panel ...
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Emailing users to request an updated mailing address
I work for a government organization that sends monthly payments to our users/clients. One of our security practices is to suspend a user's payment if we receive three pieces of returned mail (...
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Proper wording for purchase button on mixed service/product acquisition process
I need to create a button that will actually finish a purchase process. Like "Buy Now" , or "Create Membership", or simply "Submit" (eeeew!)
Now, my problem is that in this process you won't actually ...
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Word choice for a health-monitoring app: patients, clients, dependents, other? [closed]
I'm designing the UX for a healthcare app, to help carers remotely monitor elderly patients.
The word currently being used (in the prototype) to describe the elderly is "dependents" but it has ...
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Tech Writing: What to call list columns?
I'm currently re-writing some software documentation for users, and I'm stuck on how to label the columns on this page, which lists files that you've recently exported from the system, with various ...
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Technical Term for 'Annoyances' [closed]
Is there a technical UX term for an asset/object/function etc that may causes an annoyance to the user?
I'm writing up a summary of a test and really don't want to use the word 'annoyances' as it ...
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How to deny the usage of my product to a user?
I am building an microcredit application that is checking for the user's eligibility.
Unfortunately not everyone is eligible, I have to announce it and it can generate some frustration. I would like ...
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What is the best wording for an admin setting that changes a users view?
Background:
I am working with a team on an application where there is an admin user who can edit websites. In this, there is are preconfigured widgets an admin can add to their page. One of them is ...
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"Months" vs. "Years" wording in the loan industry
Do you know about a study or research regarding the wordings “months” vs. “years” in the lent term context?
Why and when do you suggest to use months/years instead of the other one and why?
Loans ...
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Word to describe a set of financial actions (send, withdraw, deposit, receive money)
I am working on a mobile wallet application.
What would be a better word to use to describe the following page and correlating set of financial actions.
"Transact" sounds weird...
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Which taxonomy or grouping name to use?
Working on an IoT interface, we have a section where users will edit projects. The current editing page is very long and has a lot of information, most of it clearly does not belong to the same ...
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Better word for contributing content
I'm working on website that heavily features user-contributed content.
I currently have a link titled "Contribute" that leads to a page explaining how a user can help, in the form of adding new ...
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Changing password - 'Old password' vs 'Current password'
When changing password we usually see these fields:
Old Password
New Password
Confirm New Password
But personally I think "Current Password" is clearer in telling the user that we need their current ...
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What's the best wording for a notification with multiple actions?
I'm developing an application where users can add charts and graphs to a workspace. Every time they add a chart to their workspace, I want to provide them with a banner notification that says ...
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How to have a better wording for the meaning of "confirm column to show up"
I'm designing data table project, here is pop-up confirm window. Any suggestions on a better wording for the meaning of "confirm column to show up"?
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A word which contains the concept of both Tags and Category?
I have a page which represents all posts based on filtering in category and tag(s).
As you know, each post has one category and multiple (or one) tag(s). Now I'm talking about a page which lists all ...
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Short word or phrase meaning "Border and Fill"
Is there a word or short phrase for "change the border color and fill color of a polygon in a single step"? I would prefer that the word or phrase not contain any conjunctions.
This word or phrase ...
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What is the best way to conduct English word-recall exercises with people who have just been exposed to English via GUI elements?
I'm working on an App for Indian languages and the users in context have heard English very little. Only for things like 'Tables', 'Order', etc. I wanted to understand what's a good way to conduct ...
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Another way for saying "Importing and Exporting"
This is perhaps very simple; we have a process which allows people to both import data into and export data from an application. Previously we were going to have two separate links for importing and ...
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Terminology: Keep screen at full brightness—and opposite
Background: By default, Android will dim the screen after some time, then after another few minutes switch it off completely.
I’m working on an Android app which allows the user to disable and ...
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"Visual clues" vs "Visual cues"?
I stumbled upon UX mentioning "Visual clue" (with "l") . I always thought it was "Visual cue" (without "l").
This question and other definitions on the web distinct clue and cue.
Googling both term ...
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