[drupal-docs] Information Architecture: Labelling discussion for the Drupal Documentation team

[Liza Sabater]

With advance notice, after 11am is fine



On Jul 05 2005, at 10:38, Charlie Lowe wrote:

> Afternoons and evenings are best for me.
>
> Charlie
>
> Kieran Lal wrote:
>> Hi, I have been in contact with Bob Goodman from www.*uxnet*.org.  He
>> was advising me regarding labeling for Drupal.  He has agreed to 
>> spend 1
>> hour in IRC discussing labeling for Drupal.  Bob is a new Dad so his
>> time is especially precious right now.
>>
>> Dries, Charlie et. al, please advise on your availability.
>>
>> I am attaching a note Bob sent me regarding labeling when this 
>> discussion
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Kieran
>>
>> Hi, Kieran.
>>
>> Terminology is often a hard issue since language itself is so 
>> flexible and
>> open to differnet interpretations. I have done in-person "Listening 
>> Labs"
>> one on one with users to test different terms as well as have users 
>> try and
>> "treasure hunt" through a directory with nothing more than high-level
>> categories to go on.
>>
>> I understand that CivicSpace is looking for distributed testing 
>> models. I
>> wonder if you might be able to create an online survey for some of 
>> your
>> target users (or you could send them an interactive PDF to fill out 
>> and send
>> back...) I am thinking of a question along these lines:
>>
>> You are hoping to add functionality to your CivicSpace community to 
>> let
>> users create an online calendar. Under which section name would you 
>> be most
>> likely to look?
>>
>> A. Functions
>> B. Applications
>> C. Features
>> D. Modules
>> E. Nodes
>> F. Widgets
>> D. Tools
>>
>> In the absence of specific user input, I would simply try to survey 
>> the
>> landscape to see what other external "language context" or "language
>> standards" you can leverage, in both OSS and the commercial realm.
>>
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