Personally, my own worst experience using a product was a touch panel design platform. Once you had created the interface on your PC or Laptop, connected to the remote touchpanel, the system would prompt you with:
"Download to Device?" yes / no If, however, you wanted to grab the existing touchpanel file off of the device and save it on your PC, the prompt was: "Upload from Device?" yes / no (I was never entirely sure what direction the file transfer was about to go) As for Import/Export vs. Upload/Download; Import / Export makes sense if one is 'taking and putting' locally in the same area (two files on one laptop for example) whereas Upload / Download would refer to working locally and connecting to something more remote. On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Ari Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > if this were 20 yrs ago when computing was still voodoo for a great many > (c. > 8% penetration in the home), i'd say go for it but terms like > upload/download and import/export are more or less part of modern > vernacular > - for ex: upload and download are now found in many dictionaries. > > > because of this, you should avoid trying to define or create new metaphors > for terms that the vast majority of people actually understand. > > > just my 2 cents... > > On 3/18/08, Mona Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Has anyone done any user studies on the use of terminology like > > import-export or upload-download. Is one of the options more natural for > > users? > > > > Thanks, > > Mona > > ________________________________________________________________ > > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > > > > > > -- > -------------------------------------------------- > www.flyingyogi.com > -------------------------------------------------- > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
