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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 take. It forces you to parse the the words in the question to interpret meaningless buttons. We face physical dialog boxes every day, could you imagine if those were designed to be Yes/No? Here are a couple tongue-in-cheek examples of what that could look like.
The Elevator
The Road Signs
Posted on Jun 18th, 2010 by Damien Huze
This is really great and always gives us a laugh when this comes up.
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I normally ramble about food, tech, photography and tennis (they're the things i love).
Who am I? I'm a Software developer who loves to cook and play tennis. I also spend way too much absorbing the internet...i really should step away.
Where else can you find me?
Our Wedding Site
Twitter
Facebook
Flickr Photos
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