Website Design Analysis: Clear dialog box options

 

Edit Note: This article is reprinted from Desiring Clicks. The article discusses the importance of making the dialog box clear.

A Dialog box (Dialog) is an easy-to-use and convenient tool. It is usually used to repeatedly confirm users' operation actions and decisions, so as to avoid temporary mistakes or misunderstanding of the meaning of operation actions, it is often used for confirmation of important actions. For example, are you sure you want to delete this contact? 」, However, if the dialog box is matched with an inappropriate response option text, it may cause user troubles and misunderstandings, and sometimes make incorrect decisions.

　　

 

The most common improper design of the dialog box is the option text: "YES" or "NO". In retrospect, O and X are the only two answers to the non-question, and the question author will tell the students whether they are really clear or not by describing the positive and negative information in the text, no matter whether such a test method is helpful for learning and building knowledge, users do not want to use your programs or services happily, you need to carefully understand the content of your dialog box.

Of course, we can carefully design the text in the dialog box so that users can clearly understand the message of the dialog box, but in most cases, we will hardly read the content of the message by word.

You must assume that the user does not read any message (the title or content of the dialog box) except the buttons in the dialog box ).

-John Gruber of Daring Fireball

　　

Therefore, we should pay attention to the text expression of the option and replace the option with a clear action vocabulary. For example, in the Logout dialog box in Mac OS, we can use "Logout) "Replace" Yes "," Cancel ", and" No ". This is a simple replacement, even if you do not need to read the content of the dialog box, you can also clearly know whether to cancel or cancel the action I just performed.

 

　　

 

The Delete message dialog box on Facebook also replaces "yes" with "Delete, in fact, we have never paid attention to the content of these dialogs, but we can always make the right decisions easily.

　　

 

In another situation, we may also apply this concept to our daily lives, such as the ordering response of fast food restaurants, to reduce the number of mistakes made by shop assistants due to their preferences (laughs ):

Clerk: "Do you want to increase the number of Chinese potatoes ?」 「 Do You Want To match four McNuggets ?」

We can change the answer "yes, no, yes, or no" into clear actions such as "increase, replace with salad, and match, so we can have less trouble in our lives!