Re: Making the correct button the default button?
Re: Making the correct button the default button?
- Subject: Re: Making the correct button the default button?
- From: Chris Hanson <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 22:23:53 -0500
On Feb 10, 2004, at 5:55 AM, Graham Lee wrote:
But anyhoo, that is entirely subjective.
No, it's not. Apple has had clear guidelines on this for years that
were based on their human interface research.
(1) If an operation can be undone via the standard Undo mechanism, it
doesn't need a confirmation dialog.
(2) If an operation can't be undone, it may have one.
(3) If an operation is destructive, it needs one and the default should
be the safest option for the user's data.
(4) Buttons should be verbs answering a question posed by the dialogue
in its primary text. (For example, "Don't Save," "Cancel," and "Save"
in response to "Do you want to save your changes to the document
"Untitled"?")
That's been the Macintosh standard for over a decade.
-- Chris
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