Re: [Usability]HIG should advise against Yes/No in confirmation alerts

[John Levon <levon movementarian org>]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 06:07:05AM -0500, Gregory Merchan wrote:

> It's here:
>   http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/draft_hig/windows.html#alert-button-order

Ooops, so it is, looking closer. Apologies.

> 1) Some alerts have only an OK button and it should be labelled "OK".
>    No imperative verb is appropriate. Especially inappropriate is Close,

Right.

> There's another thing that should not be done which the HIG doesn't admonish
> against. The phrase "Are you sure?" should not be used. Actually, I can't
> think of any kind of alert that should be phrased as a question.

Not sure what you mean by this. What would your preferred "unsaved
changes" on close dialog look like ?

regards
john