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Death of the lame Recycle Bin confirmation dialog in Windows?

Posted Tuesday May 16, 2006, 9:57 pm, Over one day old
On the Mac, when you move something to the Trash, it moves to the Trash. The Windows dialog says like, "Are you sure you want to delete these <number> items?" The Mac dialog says: "Are you sure you want to remove the items in the Trash permanently?

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Some basic UI patterns for preventing accidental deletion

Posted Tuesday May 16, 2006, 9:57 pm, Over one day old
The classic example here is the Mac Trash can, but most email clients follow this model as well. Any time an "Are you sure?" dialog is about to be added to a UI should force you to at least briefly consider whether an alternative pattern might better suit the context.

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Crack in the Memory Stick facade

Posted Tuesday May 16, 2006, 9:57 pm, Over one day old


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Streamline dialog tasks with careful setting of the default button

Posted Tuesday May 16, 2006, 9:57 pm, Over one day old
The default button is generally the button the user is most likely to press next, often a button like OK that closes the dialog. The user can type any key but Enter (or Escape, etc.) to start entering a new name, in which case the "To ->" button becomes the default button again.

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Front-loading user interaction before long operations

Posted Tuesday May 16, 2006, 9:57 pm, Over one day old
Each phase of the sync process provided an estimate of how long that phase would take, but as far as I could determine, that estimate was meaningless because I had no idea how many other phases were yet to come or long those phases would take.

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