To all GUI designers and those who aspire to such lofty heights:
What is wrong with this dialog box?
never could get the hang of thursdays
never could get the hang of thursdays
To all GUI designers and those who aspire to such lofty heights:
What is wrong with this dialog box?
This is why I love Apple’s HIG recommendation to avoid Yes / No and actually label the buttons according to the action.
In this case, an example would be:
– Send
– Send without comments
– Cancel
You can fiddle with the words a bit but the basic idea is that you don’t give your users a fucking headache. Also, the red X button should never be there when users need to make a choice. Too ambiguous.
That would certainly help avoid the awkward set of instructions, but there’s still something wrong here, something missing which a simple use-case could reveal, and that’s “cancel-and-really-cancel”.
This dialog pops up when you choose “Respond with Comments” to a meeting invitation. More often than not, choosing this option is the result of a mistake. The message window only has a “Send” button and a ‘x’ in terms of actions. Clicking on the ‘x’ gives you the dialog above – there’s no option to discard the response altogether.