Oh, Word. Why must “Comment” be the only noun here that has an adjective before it? I keep staring at this menu looking for “Comment” only to give up and go to the Review tab of the ribbon.
Of course, I wouldn’t have to worry about digging through these menus if adding a comment was in right-click context menu.
The Rise of the Zuckerverb: The New Language of Facebook
Stitching together these simple declarative statements into an autobiographical timeline creates a pale simulacrum of personal story-telling, no matter how much Facebook presents it as a way to “tell your story.”
This is what happens when language is optimized for social data-mining rather than natural communication.
Ideally it’d be the other way around - we’d be optimizing social data-mining to conform to natural communication, right? This is the kind of stuff I would love to do a PhD on someday…
52 Weeks of UX: Words are the soul of UX
Words are the soul of user experience. More than any other design element, words communicate the bulk of the messages we communicate to others. Whether they are spoken or written, there’s a fine line between lazily sending generic, expected messages and taking a few minutes to say something…
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Love the copy in Zappos’ emails. Particularly #5.
Makes me feel warm and fuzzy about ordering these. Hopefully they will make my feet and knees feel just as nice! Or at least better than my intense Old Navy flip-flop collection.
From 52 Weeks of UX: Is the term "UX" being marginalized?
The term “UX” is becoming like duct tape. People are sticking it everywhere. Take, for example, the UX-related jobs titles people are using these days, essentially a concatenation of UX on the front of an existing thing: UX designer (a term I’ve used), UX architect, UX consultant, UX…
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