Don't confirm. Offer undo. Or if you are Tivo, offer undo but confirm anyway to be pointless and even slower.
But seriously. Assume the user knows what they are doing and give them a way to reverse what they did without forcing them to confirm what they did if they meant it. iGoogle does this pretty well if you remove something from your page. Would be better if it lasted for more than one page load. Having a trash-bin where you have some amount of time to remove things (or until space requires them to be removed) is a good option too. In that case, I say don't let people empty the trash. Give an expected to stay for so-long number. Kind of like Tivo does. Only don't confirm also. Tivo is good and moronic all at the same time. If you must confirm, do like iGoogle and assume they meant to do what they did but give them an immediate way out if they didn't mean to. At least then you aren't bothering the 95% who meant to do it. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=38477 ________________________________________________________________ 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
