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The Untitled Post

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A screenshot for your amusement:

Improperly capitalized untitled TextEdit document

Name a new document window “untitled”; leaving it lowercase makes it more obvious that the window doesn’t have a name and encourages people to save the document.

Apple HIG: Naming New Windows

If the user dismisses all untitled windows by saving or closing them, then the next new document should start over as “untitled,” the next should be “untitled 2,” and so on.

Apple HIG: Naming New Windows

After creating and then closing several untitled documents (untitled, untitled 2, and untitled 3), TextEdit continues with the numbering for the next new document (creating untitled 4) rather than resetting to “untitled” as is recommended.

Author: Daniel J. Wilson

Interface and interaction designer and jazz drummer based in Brooklyn, NY.

2 Comments

  1. Thanks, Gus. I’m glad Apple is aware of and apparently debating the issue.

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