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Why is it that all caps text looks like SHOUTING, but all caps handwriting is easier to read?

by UXStackExchange on February 17, 2013 in Devices, E-Commerce, Forms, General, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, Interfaces, JavaScript, LA UX Jobs, Marketing, Material Design, Mobile, Personas, Product Strategy, Prototyping, Resources, Responsive Web Design, Stakeholder interviews, Testing, tone-of-voice, typography, UI, Usability, User Experience, User Interaction, User Research, User testing, user-behavior, UX Design, UX Rockstars, UX Toolbox, Visual Design

Specifically for UI -- handwritten mockups, comics, etc are always better all-caps, but the same is never true for printed text. Why is that?

Visual Studio 2012's all-caps menus are generally despised. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/06/05/a-design-with-all-caps.aspx

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Why is it that all caps text looks like SHOUTING, but all caps handwriting is easier to read?

by UXStackExchange on February 17, 2013 in Devices, E-Commerce, Forms, General, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, Interfaces, JavaScript, LA UX Jobs, Marketing, Material Design, Mobile, Personas, Product Strategy, Prototyping, Resources, Responsive Web Design, Stakeholder interviews, Testing, tone-of-voice, typography, UI, Usability, User Experience, User Interaction, User Research, User testing, user-behavior, UX Design, UX Rockstars, UX Toolbox, Visual Design

Specifically for UI -- handwritten mockups, comics, etc are always better all-caps, but the same is never true for printed text. Why is that?

Visual Studio 2012's all-caps menus are generally despised. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/06/05/a-design-with-all-caps.aspx

Tags: ux stack

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