On 12/11/2012 04:35 PM, Munaf Assaf wrote:
- Let's not overdo it (e.g. a search button shouldn't say "/Search the
largest knowledge base on the planet/").
It is more radical than this: use always the shortest strings possible. English tends to be pretty efficient in computer UIs but many other languages will struggle with longer words, more articles, prepositions, etc.
Two obvious real examples I found yesterday by using Mobile Beta in Catalan:
"Mobile settings" is better than "Mobile site settings" http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Thread:Support/About_MediaWiki:Mobile-frontend...
"Save" is better than "Save settings" http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Thread:Support/About_MediaWiki:Mobile-frontend...