Questions tagged [confirmation]
Use this tag for confirmation and acknowledgement, usually on digital systems
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Is having a delete confirmation built into the button itself an appropriate UX?
This is for desktop and mobile, basically when you click the button once it changes to "Confirm" with a cancel button next to it. I got some feedback that it's not clear you have to press ...
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Why does the "Thank you for contacting us" page still include the contact form?
After submitting a subscription or contact page, the user is typically presented with the same form with one change: an often small statement saying "Thank you for your response." Why would ...
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Complex forms that have no confirmation on exit are everywhere. Why?
I'm working on a SaaS product for 4 years and am going through a phase of re-evaluating my old decisions. One of them is the following rule:
When the user is leaving a complex form, and at least one ...
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Confirming an email on a e-commerce site, complete strategy
We are designing a e-commerce site, that requires email verification to create an account.
The account is useful only for
the check out (where name, phone, email are needed) and viewing the
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Should confirming an irreversible action require definite user input?
I had a situation on an auction website recently where I clicked an action button to investigate what the consequences of it were, but an accidental double click ended up committing the action (with ...
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Why don't Wifi router UI's use confirmation password boxes?
Consider the scenario of trying to update the Wifi password for a router. Pulling up two sources I have access to, both OpenWRT and Google's Home/Wifi app only have a single input box for changing the ...
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Confirmation messages
For a newsletters management page, when the user subscribes to a newsletter and clicks on the relative icon to subscribe (in this case an empty circle), is it necessary to push a pop up message ...
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Confirmation of delete triggered by Delete key shortcut
My webapp has a list of notes. Deleting a note is comparable to deleting a file. The underlying storage does not currently allow a trash-can paradigm (undoable delete). So, deleting a note is a two-...
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Revoking an invite - should confirmation banner be red or green?
I'm working on a feature where a user can send/invite other people to their organization:
The user can opt to revoke the invite. Once this action has been done, I'd like to display a confirmation ...
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Grades of confirm actions
I am currently working on a standard for confirming destructive actions, which I have to split into four levels:
no confirmation necessary
???
a simple dialog that explains what the dangers are
a ...
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How to ask users to confirm an item as True Positive or False Positive
I have an ML system which classifies a series of objects. These objects have a possible status X assigned by the system.
This information is displayed on a dashboard table to users.
An example output ...
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Delete confirmation for items within a modal
I have a modal that contains a table of items. Each item is in a row and a user should be able to edit/delete each item.
When deleting an item, there needs to be a confirmation dialog asking the user ...
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What to do when a seemingly final action is not the final action
I'm trying to solve this simple workflow. For context:
A user accesses a page to read a document
The user can suggest changes on that document, or not
In either case, the user has to click a button ...
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Why does MS Word 'Update index' ask for confirmation? [closed]
Why does Microsoft Word keeps asking before executing the "update index" command from the context menu?
Even worse, the default is "Update page numbers only", and I have to ...
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Position of alert message in confirmation page
I have a page that displays a transaction summary where the user can perform a final check before clicking the confirmation button.
I am not sure on where to place this alert message:
"Please ...
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