Re: [Usability] Re: Term: assistant

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Shaun McCance wrote:

> Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 13:08:17 -0500
> From: Shaun McCance <shaunm wolfram com>
> To: Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>
> Cc: Eugene Oconnor Sun COM, desktop-devel-list gnome org, usability gnome org
> Subject: Re: [Usability] Re: Term: assistant
>
> On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 08:58, Alan Horkan wrote:
> > On 4 Sep 2003, Murray Cumming wrote:
> >
> > > Date: 04 Sep 2003 09:11:52 +0200
> > > From: Murray Cumming <murrayc usa net>
> > > To: Eugene Oconnor Sun COM
> > > Cc: "desktop-devel-list gnome org" <desktop-devel-list gnome org>,
> > >      "usability gnome org" <usability gnome org>
> > > Subject: [Usability] Re: Term: assistant
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 17:31, Eugene O'Connor wrote:
> > > > I think "assistant" is the best term to use.
> > >
> > > I agree.
> >
> > I agree that Assistant is a better term to use than Druid.
> >
> > However I think Wizard, as used by both Apple and Microsoft and KDE* (and
> > I suspect user interface designers in general?) is the _best_ term to use.
>
> Apple uses Assistant.  And they use tuxedo icons for their Assistants
> all the time, which I think is a bit silly.

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AquaHIGuidelines/AHIGHelp/chapter_14_section_6.html

oops wishful thinking on my part, but even if they do officially use the
term Assistant the term Wizard does show up plenty of times in my albeit
limited search of their website.

http://developer.apple.com/cgi-bin/search.pl?&q=Wizard&num=10&ie=utf8&oe=utf8&lr=lang_en&simp=1

- AlanH