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

[Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Clicked send too quickly...

While it's widely used as a synonym for "reverse-engineer" it will
take them by surprise a bit and make them think. "Why would I need to
deobfuscate the UI? There's nothing here that needs clarific... Oh, I
see now..."

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> 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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