Yours vs. Mine
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Yours vs. Mine
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Re: Yours vs. Mine
#2in some cases couldn't you design the app not to mention "your" vs "mine" and just say "user profile" or profile?
just a thought. very interesting commentary on the connotations of the usage of "your profile" "my profile' nonetheless.
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#3in some cases couldn't you design the app not to mention "your" vs "mine" and just say "user profile" or profile? just a thought. very interesting commentary on the connotations of the usage of "your profile" "my profile' nonetheless.
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#4This is really the kind of thing where A/B testing is both necessary and straightforward. Decently intuitive arguments can be made for both sides and there isn't really overwhelming strength on either of them.
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#5in some cases couldn't you design the app not to mention "your" vs "mine" and just say "user profile" or profile? just a thought. very interesting commentary on the connotations of the usage of "your profile" "my profile' nonetheless.
That seems strictly worse than the first two options.
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#6I personally think this is a matter of personal preference, but the critical thing is to ensure you always use the same terminology throughout the entire application. Mixing them up is horrendous.
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#7My stuff is what runs locally. Your stuff runs on a server, which also hosts other people's stuff.
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#8"your profile" sounds odd. Either "profile" or "my profile".
May it should be an action such as "edit profile" or "view profile".
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#9I mostly agree.
I also think that physical vs. digital is a big determinant of whether Yours or Mine is appropriate. When using a physical object, you are at the very least spatially aware of all of the components. Your pencil, car, hammer are all items that operate due to mechanisms easily understandable at a very basic level simply by observation. There's no mystery. It is purely an object, and it is my object.
Digitally, however, you cannot understand the mechanism by which a mobile app works simply by observing it. There is a level of obscurity, a veil of mystery, as if someone, something were behind the scenes pulling the strings. Unlike looking at an engine and observing all of the gears and rods involved in making an axle spin, one cannot observe bytes of data travelling between microprocessors. I think it's that layer of obscurity that gives digital products a degree of personality that a car or hammer or pencil or knife cannot have. There's something at play that you're not seeing with digital interfaces, and perhaps we most comfortably assume that another human is involved in the process.
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#10This is really the kind of thing where A/B testing is both necessary and straightforward. Decently intuitive arguments can be made for both sides and there isn't really overwhelming strength on either of them.
It seems like this would also change per application, in which case A/B testing could really help you understand how users are thinking about and interacting with your program / tool / application. I think both of the paradigms that Dustin brings up in his article are good and there are applications I use that fall into both camps. Just as an example, SimpleDNS is a tool where I work on my stuff. Facebook is a social network where I got to interact with lots of stuff and the Your feels more appropriate there*
* Interestingly enough, it seems like most of the major platforms have moved away from using either "my" or "your" altogether, eg Facebook and Twitter both just have Friends, Followers, Tweets, Photos, etc.