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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Kcontrol proposal - screenshot
From:       "Nathaniel W. Turner" <nturner-kde-usability () houseofnate ! net>
Date:       2002-09-18 1:28:23
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Je Lundo, la 16a de Septembro 2002 04:56 pm, Aaron J. Seigo skribis:
> fewer words is good, and we probably don't have to change _all_ of them to
> single words, right?

I think the rule of "fewer words = more usable" applies until you get down 
into the range of a very small number of words, at which point the loss of 
meaning from removing words outweighs the benefits of having less to read.

Or perhaps:  I think I read [1] once that people don't read 
one-word-at-a-time, but rather your eye grabs "chunks" of text at a time, 
which leads me to think that two medium-length words are no harder to scan 
than a single word.


[1] However, this was in regard to reading prose (that is, line by line), 
rather than scanning a vertical list of items.  I think the concept is still 
valid, though.  Sorry I don't have a source for this... it was a while ago...

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Nathaniel W. Turner
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