I am planning to add a tooltip to our app's Undo and Redo buttons that will describe what action will be undone or redone when it is clicked. How should they be worded?
Here are some examples:
- Undo set color to black
- Undo change color to black
- Undo changing color to black
Or another situation:
- Undo underline text
- Undo underlining text
- Undo set underline
And another:
- Undo resize (2 objects)
- Undo resizing 2 objects
- Undo multiple object resize
Are there any existing policy guides for how these actions should be worded?
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", etc, etc. You could use a separator between Undo and the action if you're worried that the wording may confuse users (for instance if certain actions prefixed with Undo have an ambiguous dual meaning, or if you have many non-native speakers in your user base and can't localise).