For this one it really depends on the context. Many apps are super pushy and don’t give you notice they are even trying to do anything. If I was minding my own business and just happend to open amazon music on my phone to listen to music, I would get super confused about time my watch decided to try and pair itself to the account. Like first off, why are you messaging me, second why are you trying to do something i didn’t ask you to do.
Granted I could tell right off what that message was likely indicating it wanted to do, but thats because I’ve used tech for years now and I understand how code based pairing works. I could defo see someone who wasn’t used to code based account pairing looking at that and saying “what does this mean, why do I need to go to a website and put a code in”
Yeah, even just the assumption that amazon.com/code should automatically parse as a URL for everyone – without even dropping the word “website” – is a bit brave. It could be read as amazon.com / code or even as amazon. com/code.
I also feel like not everyone is going to know what a “code” really is, especially if they’re a non-native speaker, like this person presumably is. And there isn’t even a colon to make it clear that the blue text is the code.
I could definitely see this being interpreted as an error description, because error displays also generally have such weird letters or numbers on them (a.k.a. an error code).
Well, and if I’m already nitpicking, the title is confusing, too. Start listening to what? Or even for what? Is the watch just telling you “pay attention”?
The title is also not really visually distinct from the body text, so it looks like a run-on sentence when it’s two sentences. They could’ve totally just made that one sentence and resolved both of those problems: “To start listening, enter the following code…”
It may be a simple process, but if your communication of this process isn’t watertight, then you don’t need a fool for it to be misunderstood.
For this one it really depends on the context. Many apps are super pushy and don’t give you notice they are even trying to do anything. If I was minding my own business and just happend to open amazon music on my phone to listen to music, I would get super confused about time my watch decided to try and pair itself to the account. Like first off, why are you messaging me, second why are you trying to do something i didn’t ask you to do.
Granted I could tell right off what that message was likely indicating it wanted to do, but thats because I’ve used tech for years now and I understand how code based pairing works. I could defo see someone who wasn’t used to code based account pairing looking at that and saying “what does this mean, why do I need to go to a website and put a code in”
Yeah, even just the assumption that
amazon.com/codeshould automatically parse as a URL for everyone – without even dropping the word “website” – is a bit brave. It could be read asamazon.com / codeor even asamazon. com/code.I also feel like not everyone is going to know what a “code” really is, especially if they’re a non-native speaker, like this person presumably is. And there isn’t even a colon to make it clear that the blue text is the code.
I could definitely see this being interpreted as an error description, because error displays also generally have such weird letters or numbers on them (a.k.a. an error code).
Well, and if I’m already nitpicking, the title is confusing, too. Start listening to what? Or even for what? Is the watch just telling you “pay attention”?
The title is also not really visually distinct from the body text, so it looks like a run-on sentence when it’s two sentences. They could’ve totally just made that one sentence and resolved both of those problems: “To start listening, enter the following code…”
It may be a simple process, but if your communication of this process isn’t watertight, then you don’t need a fool for it to be misunderstood.