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We had some remote desktop software that asked "are you sure" about all kinds of things. If you hit logoff/restart/shutdown on a group with nothing selected it'
by Already__Taken 9y ago
We had some remote desktop software that asked "are you sure" about all kinds of things. If you hit logoff/restart/shutdown on a group with nothing selected it'd ask "Are you sure" yes/no and select everything in the group and perform said action. I pushed for ages to get that "default do everything" behaviour removed entirely.
If you think "are you sure" is a good solution, you may have problems much further back in the applications flow, any it may not be helping even if you do add it.
- Mtinie 9y agoYou bring up a fair point. Excessive prompts are equally dangerous. “Click fatigue” is a real thing and you can quickly shift from a state of “let me know when something differs from the expectations” to “why are you making me agree to everything?”, which means more often than not the user just clicks blindly instead of reading the prompt for context of why this time the prompt is different. I’m a proponent of appropriately prompting the user when their submissions, if processed, would result in ambiguous / destructive and not-easily-reversible outcomes.
- nkrisc 9y agoRequiring confirmation for an action should be something a user very rarely, if ever, sees. That ensures when it does occur it 1) is serious and 2) surprises the user, gaining their full attention. Another approach here would have been implementing sane defaults. Blank field as wildcard is not a sane default. Default to that which has the least impact.