Confirmation questions themselves have the problem of not really being read. Meaning people click Yes / OK / Delete etc... and then ask themselves what they just clicked. It becomes an automatism. I personally like the undo option after I performed an action, like Gmail does, more. That way it's less obtrusive. The "Save"-scenario is a little different offcourse, you can do multiple (preemptive) things, but I can't say because I don't know what your application does.
But I do agree with you that you should label buttons with the task they perform / explicitly state the call to action. On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Nonie <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm in the process of creating the "Delete" and "Save" > confirmations for a web app. In most cases, I prefer to label > buttons according to the action being performed. But in this case, in > order to answer the question being posed, it seems as though I should > be using "Yes" and "No" buttons. > > DELETE: "Are you sure you want to permanently delete your > selection?" > - [Yes] = delete and return to page > - [No] = skip deletion and return to page > > SAVE: "You are navigating away from the page. Would you like to save > your changes before proceeding?" > - [Yes] = save changes and proceed to selected page > - [No] = won't save changes and proceed to selected page > - [Cancel] = won't save changes and return to original page > > Would it make sense to replace "Yes" with "Delete" and "Save" > respectively so that the user knows exactly what action will occur, > even though it's not correctly answering the question? > > Does anyone know of any reference/s discussing proper verbiage for > dialog boxes? > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [email protected] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
