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The Wake Blog. Read what makes us tick. Yes/No Dialogs Are Confusing Copywriting is the most important part of user interface design. Yes/No dialog boxes are a perfect example of poor UI design. The buttons on these should instead be words that verify the action. John Gruber links to a series of yes/no dialog boxes (one, two, three) written by Microsoft. He states his rule of thumb; “assume the user won’t read anything other than the buttons.” Yes or No provides no information about the action you’re about to...