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Originally Posted by jeremy
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OK, Jeremy thanks for those.
There are two additional suggestions I want to add to the list I created.
6. Alphabetic order of products. They sit in those lists quite randomly now. Here's a short example from the Creative Labs audio device list:
- ...
- Creative Lab Audigy 2 ZS Notebook
- Creative Labs X-Fi Xtreme Audio
- Creative Labs Audigy2 ZS
- Creative SB Live! 24 Bit
- ...
It is obvious that after letter A not X what comes, and after X not A again. Adding an alphabetic order policy to the lists can greatly improve searching during browsing of the lists. Of course, the best result of this policy will come after standardizing the naming schemes. And here comes suggestion #7.
7. I'd recommend a more user friendly naming scheme.
Here's what we have now:
"Creative Labs X-Fi Xtreme Audio"
Of course it is readable and all, but the following would be better I think:
"
Creative Labs - X-Fi Xtreme Audio" or
"Creative Labs -
X-Fi Xtreme Audio" or
"[Creative Labs] - X-Fi Xtreme Audio" or
"[Creative Labs] -
X-Fi Xtreme Audio"
So why is this better?
It's because it might be easier to apply that alphabetic order policy on the real names of the products (text before " - " can be omitted) and can be more easily applied any policy on either the brand or product name, since the " - " can function as a border between them.
The other thing is that putting the brand name in
italic or in [brackets] or otherwise making it clearly distinguishable can improve the list visually.
Of course others might not agree with these and have other opinions, which I'll be happy to read if they share them.
Now, after applying both suggestions (#6 & #7), the above mentioned HCL list would look like this:
- ...
- [Creative Labs] -
Audigy 2 ZS
- [Creative Labs] -
Audigy 2 ZS Notebook
- [Creative Labs] -
SoundBlaster Live! 24 Bit
- [Creative Labs] -
X-Fi Xtreme Audio
- ...
instead of
- ...
- Creative Lab Audigy 2 ZS Notebook
- Creative Labs X-Fi Xtreme Audio
- Creative Labs Audigy2 ZS
- Creative SB Live! 24 Bit
- ...
Looks better I think...