I am developing a ERP software inhouse and one of the requests is to have the the username of the person creating any document to appear on the window title when that document is opened.
It will be something like [USR] – Transport Order 123456
Are there any usability rules that I am not adhering to by doing this? It just looks a bit unprofessional to have [] in the window title.
Any ideas?
There’s nothing wrong with that at all. As a matter of fact, many of the biggest ERP applications do similar things.
In my opinion, though, the first part of the title should either be the name of the application or the name of the window. Anything else should go after that. It just makes it easier to read.
Something like this, maybe: