On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 09:41 -0300, Daniel Drake wrote: > Argh! > > Another country, another core team confused by the Keep button. > The Argentinian in-house generated teaching materials say: (translated > from Spanish) > > To save the work that you did in the activity, go to the toolbar at > the top of the screen and click the Keep button. > > > Same story every single time. > Pretty please can someone please pick up the project of improving this > situation? Even if it's just killing this button for the time being. > I've seen this confusion in all 6 of the countries that I've visited. > And in most of those cases, it's written in the teacher training > materials, so the trainers pass this misinformation onto the teachers > who pass it onto the children.
I've seen users and teachers fooled by the Keep key here too. I remember reading in an old book on human interface design called "The Psychology of Everyday Object" that testers are never going to report usability annoyances of this kind, attributing the mistake to themselves rather than to the UI designer. > For now I am going to update the Spanish translation to say "Guardia > copia" (Keep a copy) but this is not the solution... Jorge is going to work on this. -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel