Improve the Silence: Creating Effective Interface Language
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Slides from a workshop on interface language. Also, Louis CK is the best interface writer out there.
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Improve the Silence: Creating Effective Interface Language
- 1. Improve the Silence Creating Effective Interface Language
- 2. Our Agenda Part 1 Intro to Interface Language Don’t Call it Microcopy Role and Voice Words and Pictures Break Part 2 Recapitulation The Functions of Words Working Across Devices Trainwrecks Conclusion
- 3. Text
- 4. Introduction
- 5. Orality knits persons together into community. Walter Ong, 1982
- 7. “Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.”
- 8. “MY DEAR AND HONORED FRIEND: I have often been desirous of writing to thee, but could not be reconciled to the thought that the letter might fall into the hands of the British, lest some printer or busy-body should publish some part of the contents, and give our friend pain, and myself censure.
- 11. Secondary orality allows allows for the preservation of information as texts.
- 13. Secondary orality facilitates the development of community.
- 16. “Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.” “MY DEAR AND HONORED FRIEND: I have often been desirous of writing to thee, but could not be reconciled to the thought that the letter might fall into the hands of the British, lest some printer or busy-body should publish some part of the contents, and give our friend pain, and myself censure. “Darth Badger Don’t Care.”
- 17. “Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.” “MY DEAR AND HONORED FRIEND: I have often been desirous of writing to thee, but could not be reconciled to the thought that the letter might fall into the hands of the British, lest some printer or busy-body should publish some part of the contents, and give our friend pain, and myself censure. “Sign up now.”
- 18. We aren’t writing, we are speaking in text
- 19. An interface is a conversation.
- 20. An interface is a conversation that takes place between a person and a machine.
- 21. You are the soul of that machine.
- 22. Text
- 26. Don’t Call it Microcopy
- 29. Let’s get small: App.net post: 256 chars Twitter card summary text: 200 chars Facebook og:description text: 160 chars Google page description: 155 chars Tweet: 140 chars Tweet with link: 116 chars Subject line in iOS Mail.app: 45 chars Jeff Eaton | LullaBot
- 30. Role and Voice
- 31. What role?
- 40. Everything follows from the role
- 44. Your vs My
- 53. How Would You Fix It?
- 56. When to use a word? When to use a picture?
- 62. Type a Word Touch a Word Touch a Picture
- 64. Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.” — Winston Churchill
- 65. Take a Break
- 66. Improve the Silence Creating Effective Interface Language (Continued)
- 67. So far... Language is an interface Interfaces are conversations Understand the role Use verbal and visual cues
- 68. Part 2 The Functions of Language Working Across Devices Trainwrecks Conclusion
- 69. The Function of Language
- 71. Salutation
- 85. Action
- 94. Instruction
- 103. Service
- 111. Nouns are information architecture Verbs are interaction design
- 112. Devices and Contexts
- 127. Trainwrecks
- 128. 8 Kinds of Bad Oblivious Inconsistent Presumptuous Unnatural Vague Passive (Too) Clever Rude
- 129. Oblivious
- 136. Inconsistent
- 145. Unnatural
- 148. Vague/Passive
- 154. Don’t be too clever.
- 159. Rude
- 163. Conclusion
- 164. Interface is a Conversation Sometimes Words, Sometimes Pictures Think Big System, Not Tiny Copy Know Your Role Be Polite Above All
- 165. Text
- 166. Thanks!