Comments on: Bad Email UI http://almaer.com/blog/bad-email-ui blogging about life, the universe, and everything tech Sat, 08 Sep 2012 07:06:53 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Mark http://almaer.com/blog/bad-email-ui/comment-page-1#comment-48736 Mark Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:15:15 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/?p=2989#comment-48736 I agree that "click here" should not be something that the user ever sees it was much more prevalent in the early days and I'm talking some. Personally I think it should always be the true target action. In the case above as Sri says change it to "episodes, to edit your [u]Account preferences[u]." For the former, the action is "download" so hyperlink it and remove "click here" and adjust the verbage to suit - surely people have grasped the concept of clicking on hyperlinks by now! ;-) I agree that “click here” should not be something that the user ever sees it was much more prevalent in the early days and I’m talking some. Personally I think it should always be the true target action. In the case above as Sri says change it to “episodes, to edit your [u]Account preferences[u].” For the former, the action is “download” so hyperlink it and remove “click here” and adjust the verbage to suit – surely people have grasped the concept of clicking on hyperlinks by now! ;-)

]]> By: Sri Sankaran http://almaer.com/blog/bad-email-ui/comment-page-1#comment-48342 Sri Sankaran Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:06:05 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/?p=2989#comment-48342 Dion: I don't think there is anything wrong with making the same phrase in a document clickable but leading to different place. It is all contextual. The second instance clearly states what clicking here would do. That said hyperlinking the phrase "click here" is a pet peeve of mine. Text should read the same in electronic and hard copy format. If you had a printout of the email what good would the hyperlink on "click here" do for you? My preference would be to hyperlink the phrase "Account preferences" in the latter case. Sri Dion:
I don’t think there is anything wrong with making the same phrase in a document clickable but leading to different place. It is all contextual. The second instance clearly states what clicking here would do.

That said hyperlinking the phrase “click here” is a pet peeve of mine. Text should read the same in electronic and hard copy format. If you had a printout of the email what good would the hyperlink on “click here” do for you? My preference would be to hyperlink the phrase “Account preferences” in the latter case.

Sri

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