document title usability

Subject: document title usability
From: Becca Price <becca_price -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 13:24:25 -0700 (PDT)

Can anyone cite usability studies about document titles for me?

I'm a tech writer working on three documents: and
Administrator's Guide, Installation Guide, and release notes for
the same product.

Word has come down from On High that we're standardizing our
titles, so I'm being asked to rename my documents as follows:

* Comshare (R) MPC(TM) 4.2 Administrator's Guide
* Comshare (R) MPC(TM) 4.2 Administration Installation Guide
* Comshare (R) MPC(TM) 4.2 Administration Release Notes


I have a vague feeling that this violates some usability
guideline or another, that the more standard stuff you put at
the beginning of titles the harder it is to differentiate
bettween the documents.

it seems to me that a better renaming would be

* Administrator's Guide for Comshare (R) MPC(TM) 4.2
* Installation Guide for Comshare (R) MPC(TM) 4.2
Administration
* Release Notes for Comshare (R) MPC(TM) 4.2 Administration

Does my alternate suggestion make any sense?

-Becca


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