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Account or Settings

May 11, 12:09 PM | written by John Peele

Hey crew… Just a quick opinion from you on something we are working on.

For the area of a web app that contains the application settings, account information, system wide configuration, etc, what do you think is the most intuitive label for that area?

Account
Settings

We are working through the wireframes for our new web app and this issue keeps coming up every time I sketch a new screen. So, not that we will listen to you or anything (just kidding), we were interested in what YOU had to say.

Carry on…

4 Comment(s)

Yannick
Fri May 12, 2006

Hehe John, guess I better just shutdown my computer now since you aren’t going to listen to me. :)

I’m just kidding, based on what you listed as things that will be under this area, you could probably do one of two things.

# Make two sections one for Account and put account information there. And another for Settings and have application and system wide settings under there.

# Call it Account Settings and have everything under there.

That’s just my take on it though. I hope that helps.

Kumar
Sun Jun 11, 2006

hmmm…what about options? thats something I am used to and always look for be it desktop apps or web apps. Many of the email services (Y!) use that too i think along with “settings” (Google). but account settings sounds good…

Sean Sperte
Sun Jun 11, 2006

DMMT (Don’t Make Me Think) would suggest “Settings” is more appropriate since the area requires user feedback (beyond simple navigation). I immediately know that “Settings” will take me to somewhere where I need to interact.

“Account” could be static, could be informational, could be another users’ information, etc. Plus it’s a tad bit redundant (if it’s to be a navigational label) since a user is already IN the account. Pickin’ up what I’m layin’ down? :)

Sean Sperte
Sun Jun 11, 2006

(Yikes! Didn’t see that this was a month-old entry! You’re probably WAY beyond this stage now, sorry!)

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