Too often I’m communicating with someone or reading some documentation and it comes time to point me elsewhere. Maybe it’s a JIRA. Maybe I’m being directed to another page in the docs. Or maybe I’m being directed to a source for some bold claim being made.
More on that subject here
Check out So-and-So’s article over here
If you look at this JIRA you can follow the test plan
“Here?” I ask myself. Where is here?
I scan the sentence until I find where they want me to look. A small link, barely visible, placed at the end of the sentence. Aaah… its right there.
Why is it so undiscoverable? Why do I have to point my cursor over this one singular word in order to click on the link?
There’s nothing wrong with telling me to look here for more information, or to check out this story for more details.
Lets stop being terse in our links. Just make the whole damn sentence a hyperlink for all I care. But enough of this. I’ve had it up to here.