Terminologies and Glossaries Developer's Guide If it is a menu, dialog or error message might only appear to a handful of users, for example because it deals with a seldom-used feature, then it is low priority. A basic rule of thumb is: If you come into contact with a certain menu, dialog or error message every day when doing simple tasks with, then it is high priority. Keep the priority level in mind when revising existing text or planning time to create or review new text. 800 error messages in range from “medium-high” to “low” depending on how often they appear and how important the situation is in which they appear. In terms of terminological priority (on a scale from high to low), the main menu items are “high”, followed by submenu items and text in main dialogs that are directly opened by choosing a menu as “medium-high”.
If a dialog can be called by several different menu items or buttons, the menu or button labels and the title of the dialog should at least contain overlapping terminology and thus be obviously related.Ĭorrect: main menu “Format - Cells” or context menu “Format Cells”, dialog title “Format Cells” Think About Priority Incorrect: menu item “Printer Settings”, dialog title “Printer Setup” When choosing the text for the title bars of dialogs, the decision of how to name them is easy: Keep the dialog name the same as the menu item that is used to call the dialog.Ĭorrect: menu item “Bullets and Numbering”, dialog title “Bullets and Numbering” Any guidelines relating to German are highlighted by the colors of the German flag in the right margin, as seen to the right of this paragraph.įor the purposes of this guide, the definition of text on the user interface only includes menus and submenus, dialogs, tooltips (short ones displayed during “What's This?” mouse-over), message boxes, wizards, etc., but not Command Line Interface, Help or documentation, even though they also appear onscreen and thus constitutes, in some definitions, part of the user interface. There are also notes when special guidelines are needed for German, because is designed and implemented in German and English simultaneously. Purpose This guide describes how to design text for the user interface (UI) of the English version of. Include Variables (Placeholders) in Text.Use Quotation Marks When Quoting UI Text.Use Single Quotation Marks, Never Double.
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