hans.gerwitz

Good UI sighting

Posted on May 22nd, 2006

Technorati has a wonderful solution for shielding users from acci­dental destructive action: offer an undo link along with the response message:
technorati_undo.gif
This is much less disruptive than an “are you sure?” dialog, which are often ignored by confir­mation fatigued users. It may seem too subtle, but designers are already tasked with taste­fully drawing attention to response messages, and a user that’s just made a mistake will be willing to invest a few seconds of attention.

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  1. Hans Says:
    May 25th, 2006 at 09:37
    And the very next day, Assaf posted a Rails plugin for undos and even supports a stack of multiple actions. Hopefully this will become a staple of modern web apps.
  2. Labnotes » Blog Archive » Better Web apps: add an Undo button Says:
    May 25th, 2006 at 16:42
    […] Update: I forgot to mention that GMail has had undo for a while, although only for the last action. Hans posted a screen shot of undo on Technorati. Tagged: plugin, rails, ruby, ui, undo […]

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