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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:Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> To:Monique Semp <monique -dot- semp -at- earthlink -dot- net> Date:Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:39:34 -0500
Make one up. "Deobfuscate" would catch their attention. ;)
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Monique Semp
<monique -dot- semp -at- earthlink -dot- net> wrote:
> 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...
>
> In short, the concept I want is, “make sure that you make this big enough and in a visible enough area that people don’t overlook it!” But I’d like a less wordy word :-).
>
> But the thesaurus and antonym list is failing me. The related words I’ve found (along the lines of: reveal, display, show, highlight, divulge, reveal, flaunt, expose) don’t get at the main point I’m trying to make, which is simply, “make it easy for people to find.”
>
> If the audience were UX designers, I’d go with the concept of affordance, but that won’t work because the audience is a general one.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> TIA,
> -Monique
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