Great article. It’s so easy to forget that words that are critical topics to one person are jargon to another. We can go farther, and think about how to write all of our reports in plain language – language and information design that helps people scan them quickly, find information in them, and make use of that information.
There’s lots more information at www.centerforplainlanguage.org and www.plainlanguage.gov (or on twitter @plain_language)
it’s is humongoysly shocking that business endeavors in the United States and in other parts of the world, are this deeply focused to UX, in my country, sadly, website design industry is rules by the cheapest in the room, they just want a cheap website and the get it, it doesn’t work and then they sey that website design is useles, WD culture in my country obeys a single principle, WAR, you get the prize if you are the dirtiest mercenary (therefore my name), and I’m glad that I can learn some tools from you guys to make WD culture something more serious in my country.
@whitneyq Sadly, in order to write in plain language, we sometimes need to write everything out in technical jargonese, then decode it on the page. This may take extra effort, but building that time into each deliverable can yield great reward—in hours saved not having to re-explain things that are often quite simple.
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Great article. It’s so easy to forget that words that are critical topics to one person are jargon to another. We can go farther, and think about how to write all of our reports in plain language – language and information design that helps people scan them quickly, find information in them, and make use of that information.
There’s lots more information at www.centerforplainlanguage.org and www.plainlanguage.gov (or on twitter @plain_language)
vismer
it’s is humongoysly shocking that business endeavors in the United States and in other parts of the world, are this deeply focused to UX, in my country, sadly, website design industry is rules by the cheapest in the room, they just want a cheap website and the get it, it doesn’t work and then they sey that website design is useles, WD culture in my country obeys a single principle, WAR, you get the prize if you are the dirtiest mercenary (therefore my name), and I’m glad that I can learn some tools from you guys to make WD culture something more serious in my country.
David Sherwin
@whitneyq Sadly, in order to write in plain language, we sometimes need to write everything out in technical jargonese, then decode it on the page. This may take extra effort, but building that time into each deliverable can yield great reward—in hours saved not having to re-explain things that are often quite simple.
Dena Tasarım
It’s really important to be able to speak in a “client’s language” when trying to explain something. Knowing it simply won’t do it by itself…
Nice article :)