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What should the default selected action be for destructive actions in a dialog?
When a user is about to perform a destructive action that cannot be undone, what should the default selected option be on the confirmation/warning dialog box?
In this example, the user is about to ...
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How to properly guide a user not to cause an error?
We're developing a web application which has a feature to upload local files to a server. The application is developed using a rich web application framework called Vaadin
The framework is very ...
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Should we try and avoid fail states at all cost or allow users to recover from fail states?
Today, I came across a site where the submit button to a login form was disabled unless you have filled in the username and password. Unfortunately, I could not reall the URL, but it looked like this:
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Is it good practice to warn users that capslock is enabled when entering passwords?
Most websites that I have seen don't warn users when they type their passwords with capslock on. Given that it is possible to implement that function, why is this not a common practice?
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When the user is inputting large numbers what can I do to reduce errors?
I am making a online-survey. One of the questions is :
How much do you want to invest next year ?
The numbers can vary between 1000 - 100000€.
I provide a normal input textfield, but the ...
