{"id":18835,"date":"2017-09-06T15:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T19:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=18835"},"modified":"2017-09-06T15:00:03","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T19:00:03","slug":"is-this-my-interface-or-yours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/06\/is-this-my-interface-or-yours\/","title":{"rendered":"Is This My Interface or Yours?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@jsaito\/is-this-my-interface-or-yours-b09a7a795256\">John Saito<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/olebegemann\/status\/903973696582365189\">Ole Begemann<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@jsaito\/is-this-my-interface-or-yours-b09a7a795256\"><p>In later versions of Windows, Microsoft changed the label of this [My Computer] icon to <strong>Computer<\/strong>, then changed it again to <strong>This PC<\/strong>. Did they change it because &ldquo;my&rdquo; was misleading? Inconsistent? Unnecessary?<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Unfortunately, cutting out &ldquo;my&rdquo; or &ldquo;your&rdquo; doesn&rsquo;t work 100% of the time. Sometimes you really do need to differentiate the user&rsquo;s stuff from someone else&rsquo;s stuff. For example, in YouTube, you can&rsquo;t just say &ldquo;Channel,&rdquo; because it&rsquo;s not clear whether that&rsquo;s referring to your channel, channels that you&rsquo;ve subscribed to, or channels that YouTube is recommending to you.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p><strong>When to use <em>me<\/em>: <\/strong>Use <em>I<\/em>, <em>me<\/em>, <em>my<\/em>, or <em>mine<\/em> when the user is interacting with the product, like clicking a button or selecting a checkbox. But only add these words if you absolutely need to for clarity.<\/p><p><strong>When to use <em>you<\/em>:<\/strong> Use <em>you<\/em> or <em>your<\/em> when your product is asking questions, giving instructions, or describing things to the user. Just imagine what a personal assistant might say.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Saito (via Ole Begemann): In later versions of Windows, Microsoft changed the label of this [My Computer] icon to Computer, then changed it again to This PC. Did they change it because &ldquo;my&rdquo; was misleading? Inconsistent? Unnecessary?[&#8230;]Unfortunately, cutting out &ldquo;my&rdquo; or &ldquo;your&rdquo; doesn&rsquo;t work 100% of the time. Sometimes you really do need to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[77,31,30,96,219,555],"class_list":["post-18835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-design","tag-ios","tag-mac","tag-web","tag-windows","tag-youtube"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18836,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18835\/revisions\/18836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}