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What's My Name
Brian Teeman discusses the complexities and considerations of capturing personal names in digital forms, highlighting variances in naming conventions across cultures. He provides recommendations for form input, such as allowing flexibility in name entry, avoiding assumptions about name formats, and ensuring inclusivity for diverse names. The document emphasizes the importance of understanding why names are collected and how they will be used.
What's My Name
- 1. WHAT’S MY NAME? BRIANTEEMAN PHP USERGROUP LEEDS
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- 3. BRIAN TEEMAN ‣ CO-FOUNDER JOOMLA! ‣HERE FOR THE BEER ‣ ALWAYS A GEEK ‣ IN THE 90’S I MADE CD-ROMS ‣ @BRIANTEEMAN
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- 22. WHY DO YOUNEED MY NAME?
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- 26. Björk Guðmundsdóttir Given name& patronymic Given name You call her: • Björk • Björk Guðmundsdóttir First name Last name Father’s name B
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- 28. Different order ofparts First name Last name You call him: • Mr Hung • Mr Dinh • Hung • Dinh Hung Dinh Given name Family Name
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- 30. María-Jose Carreño Quiñones Multiplefamily names Given name Family name from Mother You call her: • Señorita Carreño Family name from Father Antonio Carreño Rodríguez María Quiñones Marqués de First name Last name Spanish family names would have the order paternal+maternal, Portuguese names in Brazil would be maternal+paternal C
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- 32. Non Latin Characters Firstname Last name Nicholas Διονυσόπουλος The'ohneeso'poolosh Dionissopoulos Dionysopoulos ELOT standardisation
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- 34. Middle Initials First nameLast name First name Last nameInitial Brian TeemanBrian G. J. Teeman
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- 36. Only Initials First nameLast name Initial Last nameInitial J.R. Ewing
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- 38. First Initial First nameLast name First name Last nameInitial J. Edgar Hoover
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- 40. tussenvoegsels First name Lastname Robin van Persie First name Last nameInsertion You call him: • meneer Van Persie • Robin van Persie P All different in Belgium
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- 43. Edison Arantes doNascimento Nicknames and such First name Last name You call him: • Pelé
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- 45. Capitalisations and Case Firstname Last name Don’t assume all names are capitalized French often use all caps for family name Napoleon BonaparteNapoleon BONAPARTE
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- 47. Capitalisations and Case Firstname Last name Ewan MacgegorEwan MacGregorEwan MCregorEwan McgregorEwan McGregor Don’t assume all names are capitalized French often use all caps for family name
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- 49. Single name First nameLast name Wookey Last name
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- 52. Recommendations… • Ask yourselfwhether you really need to have separate fields for given name and family name • Let the user decide how to write their name • Make input fields long enough to enter long names. TO SPLIT OR NOT
- 53. Recommendations… • Make thefields optional not everyone has both • Avoid using the labels ‘first name’ and ‘last name’. HOW TO SPLIT
- 54. Recommendations… • Let theuser decide. SORTING
- 55. Recommendations… • Make thefields optional not everyone uses a title • Only use it if you need it and it is relevant • Maybe you need to have a pre and post name. TITLES
- 57. Recommendations… • Ask separatelyhow that person would like to be called • Separate formal name and common name (nickname) • Don’t assume the parts of the name • Varying expectations of formality around the world. WHAT’S YOUR NAME
- 58. Recommendations… • Don’t capitalisea name leave it as entered • Don’t restrict to Alpha - allow space and dash • Don’t restrict to ASCII 128 - allow extended • Don’t make all fields required • Don’t have a minimum or maximum character count. INPUT RULES
- 59. Recommendations… • If youhope to get Latin or ASCII-only, you need to say so. LANGUAGE
- 60. Recommendations… • Are youcollecting the person’s name just to have an identifier in your system? • Do you plan to call them by name in their language but track them in your back-office in a language such as English • You may want to ask for a Latin transcription. LANGUAGE 2
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- 62. LET ME ENTERMY CORRECT NAME NOT SOMETHING THAT PASSES YOUR CHECKS. Brian Teeman 2017 PHP LEEDSUSERGROUP
- 63. WHY DO YOUNEED IT?
- 64. IF YOU DONEED IT THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO DO WITH IT. Brian Teeman 2017 PHP SERGROUPU LEEDS
- 65. MORE INFO Falsehoods Programmers BelieveAbout Names http://goo.gl/AJuNW1 Personal names around the world http://goo.gl/3GTZeA
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