Writing

Too many help widgets

Just a quick one today, from ApexSQL Refactor:

Every item has a lightbulb-shaped help widget

There is no way all those options need help widgets. I actually think their option text is reasonably clear, so they can just leave it at that. What more is there to say about, I don’t know, “Add spaces after commas”?

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Skype for Business: part 1

At work I used Lync, Microsoft’s instant messenger, until it upgraded itself to Skype for Business yesterday. Not only is the introduction terribly overwritten, but the online content is dreadful too. So this is the first in a series of blog post about what Skype and Skype for Business are doing wrong.

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Gmail Inbox's tour

I’m trying out Inbox by Gmail, and I like the simplicity of it so far. The popups are a nice use of example content to make the the introduction to the UI make much more sense.

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