Re: Question on Naming

[Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>]

Generally, if a UI has been around for a while, or is similar to
something that has, you should not need to make up terms to describe
it.

"Screen" pretty universally means the display as a whole, so would be
ambiguous. "Pane," "panel," "dialog," or "menu," among other terms,
might be standard depending on exactly what's happening.

Could you be a little more specific about the architecture? Is the UI
created with a toolkit or framework such as Visual Studio, Swing,
NetBeans, Eclipse, or Oracle Forms? Browser-based or executable?
OS-specific? When you choose one of these "action items" does the
"screen" that appears replace it or appear in some other part of the
workspace, and if the latter is the "screen" in a separate overlapping
window or in a different area of the same window?

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Robert Courtney <bobsc1 -at- earthlink -dot- net> wrote:
>  From the one screen you can do several things. It is dynamic in the
> things you do you. You can lock records, you can approve records
> (multiple from a list), submit records for processing, or export records
> to external programs. That's why I call them "Action Items." You can do
> several action from them. But, they are screens. And I wonder if using
> screen is better to describe the area they are going to because they
> understand that better or can I create a definition and the user accept
> it willingly. They do many actions from the screen.
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