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But the author gave a perfectly reasonable alternative solution: put destructive actions reasonably far from common non-destructive ones. There are many other v
by lhorie 6y ago
But the author gave a perfectly reasonable alternative solution: put destructive actions reasonably far from common non-destructive ones. There are many other valid approaches: e.g. Chrome prompts "Hold cmd+q to quit" if you fat-finger it. Github asks you to type out the name of repo if you press the delete repo button. Just make the odd-one-out action different in some significant way.
- Arainach 6y agoDestructive actions should be suppressed when they are rare. This is the case for "Reset" or "Close Application". For a video chat, however, "Hang Up" is one of the most common actions, and one that is urgent to be able to find rapidly. As an example, Discord puts hang up nowhere near the mute/video buttons - and every time I want to leave a call I have to search for 15 seconds to find it because it's over in a corner near nothing else currently in use.
- lhorie 6y agoZoom puts the "end meeting" button on the right bottom corner (and volume/video toggles on the left bottom corner). The buttons look different and they are labeled in plain text (no guessing what an icon means). Cmd+w prompts before closing. It's clean, it's intuitive, it's not rocket science.