Screencast: Avoiding Content-specific Context
Once again, a request from Twitter creates an opportunity to review a design.
In this installment, Fran Pérez sends me an example mockup with some selected naming convention. I review the naming convention and suggest alternatives that should lead to a more flexible system.
Naming things is hard and I hope this screencast highlights ways in which a better naming convention makes things easier in the end—even if coming up with the names is hard.
Avoiding Content-specific Context
Playtime: 18m37s
The source files:
- Low resolution MPEG-4 (33MB)
- Low resolution OGG (40MB)
- High resolution MPEG-4 (156MB)
- High resolution OGG (94MB)