Questions tagged [confirmation]
Use this tag for confirmation and acknowledgement, usually on digital systems
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Why does the "Thank you for contacting us" page still include the contact form?
After submitting a subscription or contact page, the user is typically presented with the same form with one change: an often small statement saying "Thank you for your response." Why would ...
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Position of alert message in confirmation page
I have a page that displays a transaction summary where the user can perform a final check before clicking the confirmation button.
I am not sure on where to place this alert message:
"Please ...
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Confirmation messages
For a newsletters management page, when the user subscribes to a newsletter and clicks on the relative icon to subscribe (in this case an empty circle), is it necessary to push a pop up message ...
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Complex forms that have no confirmation on exit are everywhere. Why?
I'm working on a SaaS product for 4 years and am going through a phase of re-evaluating my old decisions. One of them is the following rule:
When the user is leaving a complex form, and at least one ...
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Should confirming an irreversible action require definite user input?
I had a situation on an auction website recently where I clicked an action button to investigate what the consequences of it were, but an accidental double click ended up committing the action (with ...
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Confirming an email on a e-commerce site, complete strategy
We are designing a e-commerce site, that requires email verification to create an account.
The account is useful only for
the check out (where name, phone, email are needed) and viewing the
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Why don't Wifi router UI's use confirmation password boxes?
Consider the scenario of trying to update the Wifi password for a router. Pulling up two sources I have access to, both OpenWRT and Google's Home/Wifi app only have a single input box for changing the ...
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Verifying that a user acknowledges and understands a given message without adding excess inconvenience
Say the user wishes to perform a dangerous but necessary task, from which there is no recovery or going back (for example, erasing a hard drive, or permanently deleting an online account after ...
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Is there a reason to use this icon with a confirmation message?
This is the message Sharepoint 2010 gives as a confirmation message for requesting access to a particular site you do not have access to.
I am quite confused by the icon - to me this looks like a "...
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Confirmation of delete triggered by Delete key shortcut
My webapp has a list of notes. Deleting a note is comparable to deleting a file. The underlying storage does not currently allow a trash-can paradigm (undoable delete). So, deleting a note is a two-...
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What is the purpose of the 60-second shutdown timer in macOS?
What's the purpose of having a 60-second timer for the shutdown dialog in macOS? Why automatically shut down the user's computer if they leave the dialog box open?
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Revoking an invite - should confirmation banner be red or green?
I'm working on a feature where a user can send/invite other people to their organization:
The user can opt to revoke the invite. Once this action has been done, I'd like to display a confirmation ...
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Confirmation of user input: inline button or popup/modal?
I have a few instances, where users can cancel filling out web forms. In the current design the web site will open a modal in the center of the screen (which is mostly not, where the original cancel ...
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Grades of confirm actions
I am currently working on a standard for confirming destructive actions, which I have to split into four levels:
no confirmation necessary
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a simple dialog that explains what the dangers are
a ...
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How to ask users to confirm an item as True Positive or False Positive
I have an ML system which classifies a series of objects. These objects have a possible status X assigned by the system.
This information is displayed on a dashboard table to users.
An example output ...
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Delete confirmation for items within a modal
I have a modal that contains a table of items. Each item is in a row and a user should be able to edit/delete each item.
When deleting an item, there needs to be a confirmation dialog asking the user ...
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How to handle "forgot password" when user has not confirmed email?
If you follow the pattern of allowing users access to your application without having confirmed an email (generally considered good UX), how do handle the case where they forgot their password? Very ...
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How long should a confirmation link be valid?
How much time should we give a newly registered user to click the confirmation link sent by email? I can't find any best practise on how long a confirmation link should be valid.
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Action Sheets then Alert Box Delete Confirmation Issue (iOS)
This is regarding the user experience issue in iOS, iPhone.
User comes to the first screen, which is the action sheet with a more button on a previous page. There is only one option which is delete ...
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What to do when a seemingly final action is not the final action
I'm trying to solve this simple workflow. For context:
A user accesses a page to read a document
The user can suggest changes on that document, or not
In either case, the user has to click a button ...
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Why does MS Word 'Update index' ask for confirmation? [closed]
Why does Microsoft Word keeps asking before executing the "update index" command from the context menu?
Even worse, the default is "Update page numbers only", and I have to ...
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Should you always confirm sign-out in a mobile app?
Is this necessary as it's not a critical action but I see it in a few apps. If so, what are the reasons behind it?
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How do we stop users overpaying in financial web forms?
Submitting my online council tax payment last week, I made a mistake. Instead of specifying £X.00 in a freetext payment field, I missed the dot and accidentally entered by £X000!
I'm currently waiting ...
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Justification for adding confirmation page in transaction website userflow
I've implemented a web form for users to request a transfer or withdrawal of funds they have deposited with our service. Our financial person, who handles most finance-related customer support, is ...
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Confirmation dialog wording standards
On macOS it seems usual to ask the user a (bold written) question in a confirmation dialog and add a more detailed text (non-bold and slightly smaller font). Regarding the bold question - should it be ...
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Should the user be logged in when clicking on the verify email link?
I have a webapp with signp/signin
User does a signup with email password or a sign in via Google Twitter Facebook or GitHub
If user is new, then an email is sent to this user to verify their email ...
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Why should "cancel" and "confirm" button have the same size?
A lot of UI Frameworks provide 2 different types of buttons:
a sort of confirmation button
a "cancel" button
The UI of the two buttons could be different: different colors, background, borders, etc. ...
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"Are you sure?" Request for confirmation modal usability research
A user is about to delete a crucial object with no undo.
The designer puts an "Are you sure?" modal confirmation.
The user says "Yeah yeah yeah do it"
Immediately the user regrets his/her decision ...
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What would be a good reason to ask for confirmation to create a new save in a game?
I just got the PS4 of a friend and noticed that many games use the builtin save manager.
What bugs me is, that the manager asks you if you are really sure you want to save the game, even when you ...
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"Missile launch" button pattern name and implementation?
I am curious about a specific confirmation pattern. The best way I could describe it is the "missile launch" pattern, where the user has to "arm" the button by removing some sort of cover before ...
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How can I avoid triple confirmation modals
While at the supermarket a while back, one of the actions the clerk performed on the POS had a triplet of confirm modals on it, literally:
Are you sure you want to <action>?
Again, are you sure ...
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Why would one use "enter the name of the project to confirm"?
If you're a long-time GitHub user, you probably have seen something like this:
This happens every time you do a potentially destructive thing to a repository, like switching its public / private ...
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Closing app via keyboard shortcut — should there be a confirmation dialogue? [duplicate]
There are many ways to close apps: mouse-and-click on an 'x' somewhere, choose "Quit" as a menu option, keyboard shortcuts (ctrl-w, cmd-q, alt-f4 etc.)
I notice some apps I use ask me "Are you sure ...
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Best place to show a confirmation modal in a purchase flow
So, I'm working on an insurance ecommerce and would like to get input on where to show a confirmation modal. Let's say I am in the summary page, and there's a "Change Plan" button to choose another ...
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Are "Thank You for Unsubscribing to our Newsletter" emails necessary?
I am about to disable the "Send a Thank You for Unsubscribing to our Newsletter" message for some of our clients as I think it's superfluous and unnecessary.
My suggestion was to have an Unsubscribe ...
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Should alert boxes be avoided at any cost?
Thanks to Gabriel Svennerberg and Sam K for this one - raised in a comment here.
I was fairly casual about alert boxes until a run of user tests where an alert box was put up to warn learners that ...
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Popups default focus on button - best practice
Do we need to auto focus on any one of the buttons inside a popup? Since, some users prefer keyboard to interact with the application.
For example: Confirmation popups in destructive actions like ...
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Is there a need for a confirmation button on a multi-select comboboxes?
Is there any reason we should include a confirmation button on our multi-select comboboxes? What are best practices for the design of these controls?
Mouse Functionality:
Clicking outside of the ...
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Why can't you turn off your iPhone with Siri?
With the help of Siri (voice interface), people can have a call, add tasks, have a search. I give a command for turning off my phone but Siri said that "It is beyond my skills". I tried again and Siri ...
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Is this cancel button needed?
In this UI it is possible to type in text in an input box, press Enter and the text would get converted into a tag visually (and in JSON). After the tag is typed, the cursor would be ready for the ...
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Default values for text-based confirmation prompt
In text-based environments, I've sometimes seen confirmation prompts in the form of
Are you sure you want to _______? (Y/n)
Generally, I've understood this to mean that Y is the default, and if I ...
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When is it appropriate to ask User confirmation?
A couple of times I archived some of my emails accidentally ( touch screen you know ) . They don't usually ask for confirmation while archiving messages or emails. But they do while deleting . So in ...
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Survey Confirmation - Emphasize the question or the answer?
I am putting together an online survey, and am designing the confirmation screen that appears just before the respondent submits their answers.
I have limited formatting options, but feel that ...
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Confirmation message for a batch operation that has been stopped
When the user performs a batch operation, an overlay appears with a progress bar and a 'stop' button, that allows him to stop the operation before it ends.
If the user stopped the operation when 10 ...
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Confirm vs. Verify: Is there a difference?
I'm wondering if there is any distinction between using the word confirm versus the word verify.
For example, when sending an email to confirm (or verify) a user's account, is it better to call it "...
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How to encourage the user to check details before submission
I'm upgrading a legacy financial application which requires users to re-enter their password before a transaction is submitted. I need to remove the password check since I'm migrating users to a new ...
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Is confirming an action using a second click on the same button a good idea?
I'm working on my first (mildly) significant web app, which comprises multiple pages and a modal dialog for entering/editing/deleting information. One view displays a tabular list of objects and ...
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Sending confirmation email to survey participant [closed]
When a participant finishes their survey, I would like to send them an email confirmation that they responses to the survey was successfully saved.
I'm kind of stuck at the write-up of this ...
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How to Handle User Email Confirmation After User Becomes a Paying Customer And Doesn't Confirm Email
I'm rebuilding my "confirm email" system when a user signs up or changes their email. Websites like Facebook require an email be confirmed each time it is changed, so I have implemented the same. ...
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Double opt-in confirmation link or confirmation code?
I read everything about double opt-in on this site and I saw on Sign up: Double opt-in still best practice? What about mobile? answers someone speaking about sending a confirmation code instead of a ...
