I'm designing a form-based UI and the user can choose to leave things part-way through and resume later, or he can carry on to completion (in which case certain validation takes place). It's a little like filling your shopping cart on Amazon.
I need wording for the buttons which conveys those two situations to the user, but my user tests indicate that 'Save' and 'Finish' don't unambiguously do this.
So I can test the rest of the design, I've resorted to these:
but they do seem a trifle long-winded ;-)
I've seen the discussion about 'Done' and 'Save' but IMHO that doesn't really resolve the issue.
Save
andSubmit
are self-explanatory enough to me, but I can see how the former is vague enough that some people might think that's all they need to do, and be incredulous when they click it, get a 'Thanks!' message that they don't really read, and later come back to find that it only saved a draft. So, I'd be inclined to call the left oneSave Draft
and the right one (I'm not so sure about this) something likeSubmit Completed Form