[IxDA Discuss] Confirmation dialogs - the devil himself, or a necessary evil?

[Billie Mandel]

Tanya said: 

> To greatly generalize, use whenever there's no undo, and on the whole
> an undo is preferable. (Necessary evil when dev balks at your request
> for an undo.)

I agree - and therein lies the rub.  We're a mobile company, and "undo"
is not always something one can pull off on mobile devices -- especially
when we're talking about "delete thing X from my handset" types of
actions, of which there are many required variations.  

So I think that using them "whenever" there's no undo, sadly, won't fly
as an axiom in this context.

The devil, as usual, is in the details....  

Cheers,
- Billie


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Billie Mandel
Manager, User Experience Design & Research
OPENWAVE
billie.mandel at openwave.com