Re: need a word - "don't bury it in the display and make it hard to find"

Subject: Re: need a word - "don't bury it in the display and make it hard to find"
From: jimmy -at- breck-mckye -dot- com
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:34:23 +0000



On 24.01.2012 22:48, Monique Semp wrote:

In short, the concept I want is, âmake sure that you make this big
enough and in a visible enough area that people donât overlook it!â
But Iâd like a less wordy word :-).

If your audience know your field, the word you are looking for is 'discoverable'. If not, it's still probably self-explanatory.

In a Best Practices doc, I want to emphasize that a certain component
of the Web page display should not be too far below the fold, not be
in a tabbed part of the display, not be in in the general navigation
area, etc...

Just a tangent - the fold probably doesn't matter as much as you worry it does. Users *do* discover page content below the fold so long as your design doesn't suggest the page ends higher up (eg horizontal bars), and so long as the above-fold content makes clear the value and relevance of the page.

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