Good UI sighting

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.

This entry was written by Hans, posted on May 22, 2006 at 7:05 pm, filed under geek, uncategorized and tagged , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

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  1. Hans
    Posted May 25, 2006 at 9:37 am | Permalink
    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.

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  1. By Labnotes » Blog Archive » Better Web apps: add an Undo button on May 25, 2006 at 4:42 pm
    […] 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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