Yovav (Jay) Meydad's Personal Blog » Jakob Nielsen http://www.meydad.com Thoughts on social applications, usability, search, mobile, music and sports Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:46:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Missing Label http://www.meydad.com/2007/10/25/the-missing-label/ http://www.meydad.com/2007/10/25/the-missing-label/#comments Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:46:39 +0000 JayMeydad http://www.meydad.com/2007/10/25/the-missing-label/ Since June ’07, a MyBlogLog user can add services to his profile. These are the user’s online identities on over 30 popular social services (Digg, Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, del.icio.us and others). This is very useful and creates a richer profile.

But viewing someone’s profile and figuring out which username belongs to which service is a frustrating process that involves trial and error. Labels (text or favicons) would greatly help here.

Make labels for data fields distinctive, so that they will not be readily confused with data entries, labeled control options, guidance messages, or other displayed material.” (Jakob Nielsen, Sixty Guidelines)

No labels on MyBlogLog user profile pages

 

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