Ever wonder what goes into adding an “easy” new feature?
Case Study: Our thumbnails truncate the file names if they’re too long to display, like this:
That’s not very useful if you store important information at the end of the file name. Umm?
EASY! Just reverse it, so we get “…end.jpg” instead of “start…”
Nope. Maybe having the end without the start isn’t so useful either. Hmm?
EASY! I’ve seen other awesome apps do this. Let’s put ‘etc’ marks in the middle, like this: “star..end.jpg”
Nope. Turns out we’re using the smallest font and still it’s not quite right when the thumbnails are small. Hmm?
EASY! Let’s strip the file extension if there isn’t room for it! “start..end”
So the final result is…
After so much debate, let’s hope we got it right.
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