Truncating where items share a prefix
- Forbidden
- "User Interface Design Fundamentals C…" repeated down a list, every row identical
- Instead
- Where truncation is unavoidable and items share a leading string, crop in the middle: "User Interface De…Chapter 2 – Typography". Truncation must preserve the part that tells items apart, which is rarely the beginning.
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Why this rule
Better still, remove the shared prefix entirely and put it in a heading (A-59).
- Kind
- Rule
- Section
- Things to avoid
- Group
- States and interaction
- Bucket
- judgment
- Severity
- note
- Since
- v0.1.0