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Re: How to avoid a Windows interface on OS X?
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Re: How to avoid a Windows interface on OS X?


  • Subject: Re: How to avoid a Windows interface on OS X?
  • From: Andreas Mayer <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 14:56:08 +0200

Am Dienstag, 15.10.02 um 09:13 Uhr schrieb email@hidden:

The excerpt goes on with: "If there is a Cancel button, it should be to the left of the default button".

I looked at the old HIG - the printed one - and when Cancel was a default button it was still on the left of the OK button.

Looks like the best idea is to avoid having to put Cancel as the default button.

I think the point is: If you have to make Cancel the default, there's probably something wrong with the UI before that point.

If it is clear to the user, that what she is going to do is dangerous/destructive then she will most likely not select it by error. Maybe she will try it once and cancel. But the default, i.e. what she will use most of the time, will still be 'OK'.

Even in case of a warning dialog it should be fine to make 'OK' the default. Remember: It's a warning, so the user has already selected that function. There's no point in making her work more difficult. You already put up the safety net; if the user still insists not to use it, she most likely knows what she's doing. :)

So instead of making 'cancel' the default I would recommend to make it very clear in the UI that the function that leads to said warning/dialog is dangerous/destructive and choose a clear description for the warnings ("This will destroy all your data."). In the worst case (formatting the drive or something) you may want to not make any button default at all.


bye. Andreas.
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