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For critical stuff IMO there needs to be more than just a confirmation dialog. The user needs to be transitioned into a totally different state of mind from the
by PhantomGremlin 10y ago
For critical stuff IMO there needs to be more than just a confirmation dialog. The user needs to be transitioned into a totally different state of mind from the usual click, click, click, click.
E.g. forcing someone to manually type the characters D E L E T E before allowing deletion of something potentially important.
Either that or everything should have multiple levels of undo. Everything.
- andrewaylett 10y agoThere's certainly some stuff in AWS that requires you to type the name of the thing you're deleting into a text field in order to delete it, but I suspect that's purely a UI check -- there wouldn't be so much point in requiring the name twice in the underlying API. So if you've got a dud client implementation then you're going to lose the check. One way to do stuff like this is to have separate roles for read-only and read-write access. I pay a lot more attention to what I'm doing on the rare occasions I assume permissions to change things.