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design
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Software your staff can actually read
The storekeeper, the guard and the munshi have to use it too. What Hindi support usually turns out to mean, and how to find out before you buy.
Capitals are a contrast, not a volume
One line of styling put a whole application into capital letters. It read as deliberate for about a week, and after that it just read as shouting.
Tamper-evident, not tamper-proof
You cannot stop somebody altering a copy of a document. You can make any alteration detectable, and that is a much more useful property than it sounds.
A default is a decision somebody made once
Defaults are set in the abstract, by somebody not thinking about your case, and then apply for years without ever looking like a choice again.
Name it what the site already calls it
Our software recognised a delivery photo only if the caption said one of four words. Against four hundred real captions, those four words matched exactly two.
An alert that rings for everything is an alert nobody hears
Priority is the wrong axis, because everybody's work is important. Sort by what the message asks the reader to do, and there are only three answers.