[KLUG Members] Non-Technical Usability Question

Adam Tauno Williams adam at morrison-ind.com
Tue Jan 11 16:46:21 EST 2005


I've got an application that in one view shows information about a
person contact.  The view contains a tabbed 'notebook' (the app looks
suprisingly like ACT for those who have seen recent version of that) in
the bottom third of the window.  These tabs are names "Addresses",
"Phone Numbers", "Enterprises", "Projects", "Relations", and
"Permissions",

My question is with the name for tab #3 (Enterprises) & #5 (Relations).
Tab #3 lists organizations the user is considered a
member/employee/representative of.  Is there a better name for this tab?
The name "enterprises" makes sense to me, but I spend all kinds of time
buried in the guts of the server-side of this thing (OpenGroupware) and
it thinks in terms of "People" & "Enterprises".  Tab #5 shows links to
other 'objects' (people, enterprises, etc...) of types defined by the
site administrator and express a different (potentially) set of meaning
from each different server the client connects to.  Does the name
"Relations" make sense,  I can't think of anything better, but
"relations" make me think 'family'.

In another view the application shows 'enterprises' and has tabs named:
"Addresses", "Phone Numbers", "People", "Projects", "Relations", and
"Permissions" with pretty much the same questions; although "People"
seems a straight forward name in this case.

I've already been told the tab names 'suck' by someone who offered no
constructive advice. :)  So I figured it was worth tossing out to all
you bright people.



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