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Naming fundamentals

Naming fundamentals

From the course: Practical UX Weekly: Season Two

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Naming fundamentals

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- As a designer, naming is something that we do everyday. For projects, folders, assets and products. It's the foundation for how we share content, find a way back to information and organize and structure our work systems. Needless to say it's incredibly important and difficult to get right. In this video, I'm not going to give you a magical recipe that will make your name sing and sparkle but I will give you methods to make sure your names are thought about in a methodical way and have some form and systematic thinking associated to them. Imagine you are a product. Each and every decision you make is affecting the performance, the clarity and the efficiency of how you will operate. When you first were boot up in the morning and were given tasks and responsibilities to execute, you had to make decisions. Some were big, and some small but you were given a constraint that each name and decision you made required you to have to take five extra minutes before you were allowed to complete…

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