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By: UX Designer’s Quick Reference | butlerhouse

UX Designer’s Quick Reference | butlerhouse — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 00:21:52 +0000

[...] Dialog Boxes – Making Simple Things Simple… – Leisa Reichelt [...]

By: victor

victor — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:46:20 +0000

I personally think it solves one little situation I have found myself in for ages: If you don’t read the text (many people don’t read it) it still gives you an actable button with a message that *might* be understood. Not making it a political case, but I think it, in some cases, is still better than Yes or No, and if you read it, well, you might know better. (Actually, after an application upgrade, while I’m filling some website or application data form, I really “like” when it appears, letting me know he can handle a password I might have already forgotten!)

If you make it “Don’t add all keychains” and “Add all keychains” could improve, though.

I think.

(About the “Details” I don’t personally find them that instructive after the first time, but then it is just me, not a pleaded case)

By: Donna

Donna — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:25:13 +0000

I’ve really messed up my keychain at different times, as I keep forgetting which is the “right answer” to DON’T CHANGE or CHANGE ALL. Such a sophisticated OS, you’d think this would not be an issue.

By: 90 Percent of Everything » Blog Archive » A great example of bad dialog box design - Part 2.

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:22:27 +0000

[...] I’ve also just realised that this has been blogged about elsewhere, with some great comment discussions. Read more here, here and here. [...]

By: UIE Brain Sparks » Blog Archive » Error Messages: Paying Attention to the Little Things

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:09:31 +0000

[...] You can read Leisa’s entire post here: Dialog Boxes — Making simple things simple… [...]

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:08:15 +0000

It seems to me that buttons should be labelled with actions – because you click them to do something – and “yes” and “no” are clearly not actions. It might be better if the buttons were labelled “Allow access” and “Disallow access” and the text changed accordingly.

By: disambiguity - » The Halo Effect - Why Apple gets away with rubbish interaction design

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:30:17 +0000

[...] This is not a post about the things that Apple does badly though (although, seriously – can we get past the one button mouse already? and I do think that dialog box is pretty shocking, and those little triangles that so often hide much of the information I’m looking for in Mac applications…. please!). This is a post about what Apple does well, and how this helps them get away with doing some things not so well. [...]

By: alessandra

alessandra — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 23:07:12 +0000

As a new Mac user, I spent minutes trying to figure out what I should answer, the first time I was faced with that. I’m so happy somebody else got puzzled ;)

By: Andreas Lechner

Andreas Lechner — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:27:46 +0000

We are using wireframes to specify the text of dialogue boxes – sometimes also wording lists (including error messages).
Here’s my blog post on this: http://requirements.blogger.de/stories/807523/

By: Pauric

Pauric — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:42:14 +0000

Headline: Shock Horror!!! Macs are developed by humans who make mistakes!!!

Leisa, seriously, for every stupid dialog box on os X there’s got to be 5 on XP. For every engineering centric app on a Mac there might be 5 on Linux.

Nothings perfect, but if you’re having such a hard time then dump the Mac, get back on the XP pony and get back to writing great posts!!! Dialog box usability reports is sooo beneath you. (o;