How many times did you complete a form only to push the “Clear” button instead of “Submit”? What about “OK” vs. “Cancel” on a popup window? (Raises both hands — one for each.) Why does this happen? Do we expect one button on the left and the other on the right? Are they too close together? Jakob [...]
As if the daylight savings time change wasn’t enough to contend with, Microsoft picked a bad page to have a typo. A page that many people have been accessing. What’s verion? What happens when you get two verions? Also found this typo on a kids sports program information page. Do we get to take two classes [...]
The Microsoft Office Team reports that Microsoft has added 58,000 words to the US English dictionary including the following: Possessives, i.e. the possessive form of words that already were in the lexicon The most frequent male, female and last names from the 2000 Census data and other sources. Examples: Brianne, Britta, Carissa, Carolyn, Carmela Company names, such as [...]