Rules From a User to Software Developers
7th April 2011
Here’s a cause we can ALL get behind.
- Blue makes for a great icon color and everyone else uses it — be the exception, not the rule.
- Make the name of your app/service something that a normal person can pronounce, on first try, without help.
- Spell the name like a normal person. Twitter works because it makes logical sense, spelled as it sounds. Tumblr is hard to explain to a non-tech user — tell your Mom to go to Tumblr.com and see what she types in. I don’t want to remember which consonant you doubled or which vowel you dropped. Things like Digg work because you can tell people: “it has a double g” — stray from the basics too far and your service/app will confuse people.
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