Nielsen and Spolsky on Vista and Office 2007
Monday, 17 September 2007
Jakob Nielsen’s latest Alertbox column has a brief discussion (Tab usability guidelines, point 9) of upper vs title vs sentence case, and I’m pleased to see that:
“Microsoft’s Vista User Experience guidelines recommend sentence case (in which you capitalize only the first character of the first word)…
In fact, Microsoft’s UE guidelines aren’t half bad (shame about the OS). And, of course, Microsoft should make it easier for Joel Spolsky to open their boxes:
“A box that many people can’t figure out how to open without a Google search is an unusually pathetic failure of design. As the line goes from Billy Madison: ‘I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.’”
Maybe then the future will turn out OK. Believe.
