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The Akismet plugin for WordPress wins today’s Most Ambiguous Button award. After subconsciously struggling with the meaning of the “Update options \u00bb”\u00a0button, I realized why I was having such trouble: “update” could be either a noun or a verb, and both words can mean a variety of things in different user interfaces. Moral: \u00a0always choose a label for a button that makes its meaning intuitive, or familiar to users, rather than labeling it according to what it does on the back end. “Save changes” would be a good choice here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Akismet plugin for WordPress wins today’s Most Ambiguous Button award. After subconsciously struggling with the meaning of the “Update options \u00bb”\u00a0button, I realized why I was having such trouble: “update” could be either a noun or a verb, and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,1,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/guywyant.info\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/guywyant.info\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/guywyant.info\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guywyant.info\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guywyant.info\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/guywyant.info\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"http:\/\/guywyant.info\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/guywyant.info\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guywyant.info\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guywyant.info\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}