Forum .LRN Q&A: Re: Improving Language Style and Usability

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Posted by Matthias Melcher on
" Later on in the listing of the documents, the 'Title' is called 'Name'"

Name or title is not easy to decide. "TITLE" may confuse users who have been asked for "version fileNAME"s and therefore think that versions are related to names rather than to titles. If they finally learnt that versions were distinguished by titles, they are again wrong and have to learn about descriptions. Furthermore, "title" may confuse those who store HTML files where title is something completely different. I believe that the big usability study being conducted for filestore at Sloan(?) will eventually just reaffirm what translators find out: that terminology is unclear and therefore usability suffers.