You haven't used windows long enough then. :P
The only reason to confirm, is because you can't undo.
If you can undo the deletion easily, you don't need to confirm.
The only reason not to make something undo-able is that you don't
know how to. Not a very good reason. Go figure out how to make it
I also like the undo idea.
Another suggestion could be a trash can icon for immediate deletion,
and a "Delete?" button for the delete requiring confirmation.
I can't recall ever having to have confirmed a drag into a trash can
or a click on a trash can, but the ? after Delete could indicate the
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Undo FTW. Always. No exceptions. Infinite if possible.
If I put it in the trash, the trash should take itself out when space
is needed. Like Tivo, only not slow and otherwise clunky.
Undo is the new delete. Anything else is laze.
Peace!
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Though, I like t
Though, I like the idea of using ellipsis to differentiate the two.
But if I think from a normal user perspective it should be more
intuitive and obvious.
Color coding the "Immediate delete" as red can make the system more
confusing as it will become more prominent and attract user as
compared to
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I support Dev in suggesting the ellipsis "..." to differentiate related
control
I support Dev in suggesting the ellipsis "..." to differentiate
related controls where the difference is that one acts immediately
and the other requires confirmation. A confirmation of a delete is
technically a dialog box, although a lightweight one, and the
ellipses is a convention here. "Delete"
There are also two flavors of Deletion: true delete and "move to
trash" (from which the user can retrieve it later). A third flavor as
well, for some products: Hide. Remove from library (other other view)
but don't do anything with the file on disk. (And I think Adobe Bride
has a "flag"
I like Dev Yamakawa's approach by putting an ellipsis after the word
"Delete..."
You could also do something like "Delete now" and "Delete?" and
ask for confirmation after clicking the "Delete?" button. Just a
suggestion.
Though I do believe the best thing to do is to have an "undo"
button after
On email web apps (like Gmail), we have delete option which deletes
the emails immediately and places them in the Trash folder. This
seems to be a very normal practice for using 'Delete'
functionality.
Normally, no application does 'Instant Delete' as that is not a
common interface practice. Howev
Don't know what technology you're working with, but the Windows
distinction between Delete and SHIFT-Delete comes to mind. It's not
the same becuase they're both mediated, but it's an exmple of the
user selecting one of two different actions to perform, which might
work in your case.
In a sense i
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> > Has anyone here seen a label that provides the users some sort of
> clue as to which action will take place?
I can't think of an example at the moment specific to Delete functionality
but it is pretty common to append an ellipsis (...) to a label to indicate
that further input is needed fro
On Apr 15, 2009, at 9:58 AM, Daniel wrote:
Has anyone here seen a label that provides the users some sort of
clue as to which action will take place?
I have distinguished between these two patterns before by making the
"immediate deletion" buttons red, while leaving the "mediated
deletion
There's also a third pattern - deletion with undo (as used on gmail). This
combines immediacy with safety...
http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/googles_gmail_undo.php
Perhaps that's your solution right there, and it avoids futzing around with
a new term or icon for "instant-delete" which lets fac
There are two "Delete" patterns I have noticed out there:
1. - Immediate Deletion: As the name implies, the delete action takes
place immediately. There are no confirmation steps of any kind.
2. - Mediated Deletion: This type usually includes an intermediate
"page" or dialogue box that asks the
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