Questions tagged [confirmation]
Use this tag for confirmation and acknowledgement, usually on digital systems
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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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Doubled form validation button (iOS)
I have asked myself this question a few times lately.
Should I put a validation button at the right-hand corner of the header and another at the bottom of the form ?
The right-hand button is useful ...
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How to ask users to confirm/verify customer contact details
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Our application holds data about customers, including their addresses and phone numbers. Our users are employees who need to find information about our customers.
The customer database is ...
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Should an operation pause while a "Confirm Cancel" dialog is on the screen?
We have a long sync operation in our program that shows a progress bar and gives the user an option to cancel. When they click they cancel button, they get a confirm dialog saying "Are you sure you ...
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How can web interface for resetting programmatic access keys protect users from accidentally repeating the action?
There's a web service for data processing. It has two interfaces. One of them is a web interface for users registering, paying with PayPal, etc, it uses regular username plus password authentication. ...
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Designing warning/confirmation dialogue box
Currently working on a design which will prompt a dialogue box with confirmation message. Just some background on the design, when user attempt to add or delete data from a grid, a dialogue box will ...
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Tradeoff between immediate changes and confirmations
I am developing a system that helps auditors complete a security review using a checklist. Here's a snippet of the UI:
The current UI only saves the changes to the server when the user clicks save. ...
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Is it ok to show confirmation dialog on pressing Cancel?
There is a page, which can be edited by the user, and there are two actions - Save and Cancel.
Would it be appropriate to show some kind of alert, once the user accidentally pressed Cancel after ...
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Language alt for "Are you sure?", when you can't provide an undo/"don't show again"? Success rate of alts?
Are there other, more common ways of phrasing this? I know its better to have undo, but in this case we can't (yet) have undo, or "don't show this again".
Does anyone have experience with results for ...
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example of customer survey in the confirmation page
i am looking for some examples of customer survey in confirmation/thank you page in ecommerce website, Where customers asked to fill a survey after the purchase compilation.
Example : Apple thank you ...
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"Complete" indication that doesn't insinuate "correct"?
I have something like a multistep wizard plugin, except that you can freely switch between any step in the wizard, once a selection is made from the bottom choices an overlay appears to signify a ...
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Confirm cancellation
I have a window, where the user will have to chose to cancel or save.
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I have some people in my office saying that when you click on save the window will not close, but you will get a ...
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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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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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What is the max limit of acceptable characters/words in a confirmation box button?
For example, if I ask a user
Would you like to send an email instead of print to save paper?
Yes, send email and save paper
No, take a print
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Confirmation dialog button wording
I have an iOS app sign-up process that is very, very lengthy. I implemented a button to cancel the process (there are reason why this might be necessary, for example to go back to the login screen).
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How to describe what UX Developer does?
UX is often related to designing so it is more acceptable when people mention UX Designer to deliver wireframes, prototypes user research and more. What about UX Developer? How does both of it differs ...
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Asking for Password After Email Validation?
I do not want to discuss the pros and cons of email validation, but want to know if there are potential downsides (security and otherwise) to user entering his password only after he has already ...
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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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Do they need to confirm their email... twice?
My site sends reminder emails to users 2-5 years in the future. Users log in via a 3rd party API. The third party gives me the name, email, phone, etc. of the user when they log into my site. What I ...
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Showing order confirmation after online food ordering
I am developing an online food ordering platform. It has the following steps.
1. 1st Screen: Menu from where user add food to cart
2. Second Screen: Give payment info
3. 3rd Screen: Review and submit ...
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Yes/No button placement on confirmation dialog boxes
I have seen various takes on the yes/no button placement on dialog boxes or confirmation messages over the years. For a long time, it seemed like I was almost always witnessing the "Yes" option being ...
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Alert dialog to confirm a Cancel action
I have an application from which you can run different step by step wizards. It has a Cancel button at the top, which allows the user to quit the current wizard.
I have a dialog that appears on ...
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Showing confirmation "added to shopping cart" in the "add to cart/shopping cart" button
I'm designing an e-commerce website and I was thinking of a way of showing to a user that the item has been added to the shopping cart.
I'm not sure if my idea is correct but I was thinking of ...
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Saving changes on Back key on Android 5 : how to deal with cases that need confirmation?
Some Android system apps, such as the official Contacts edit screen, have introduced a behavior which is that exiting an edit screen using the back or up buttons is equivalent of saying "OK" and ...
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When is inline confirmation necessary and when is it not?
I have a scenario where the user is asked to select one of two or more options and then accordingly enter into another page. After selecting the desired option, should there be a secondary section ...
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Deletion Confirmations - Making clear what you will lose?
I am currently working on an error prevention concept for a Windows Forms application.
When the user is going to delete an object, how important is it to tell what the exact consequences are? In my ...
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Position of a delete prompt?
In our software, we have a delete prompt where the user has to confirm a deletion. What is the better approach to show the prompt?
Centered in the window:
In the near of the pressed button:
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Post Action Confirmation / Next Steps Page
In the application I am working on, a user would create a new entity (e.g. a topic) which will remain hidden until it is checked by a moderator. once approved, child entities can then be added to that ...
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Are there established patterns for delete confirmations other than the typical modal?
I'm trying to find out if there are some semi-standard ways of handling the "are you sure?" confirmation logic when a person deletes a record or item.
The typical options are:
Show a "Are you sure ...
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Indicate that a button doesn't take immediate action
Using a social network as an example, say I have a button called connect that ultimately sends out a friend request to another user. Clicking on this button then opens up a modal that asks for ...
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Placement of components in a "Confirmation with a textarea" pop-up dialog box
I really have an aim to get better at UX-design. As a part of a new feature I have come up with the following dialog box which prompts the user if he/she is sure that they want to delete followed by a ...
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Loss conversions due to email misspelling?
I'm wondering if there are any stats related to how important it is to have an "Confirm Email" field. For something like newsletter signups, I regularly see a single email input field.
I'm sure it ...
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Deletion: Confirm or Undo? Which is the better option and why?
Which one is the better option and why?
Delete with Confirmation [The action cannot be undone]
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Delete with one click [And provide option to Undo]
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Any suggestions for letting user Activation by clicking link OR typing in confirmation code?
Sometimes, our users do not have access to their email on the same device they are using our web app on, for example, they can check their email on their iphone, but the iphone is too small to use ...
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What's the best approach to confirm user email address: sending an email confirmation link or sending a verification code in email?
I see there are number of questions available there about approach for confirming email address with pretty good answers. I have a similar question I can think of two approaches for confirming email ...
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Any guidelines / ideas for UX requiring LOTS of user input (applications)?
I'm working on designing an app that's essentially a lengthy application process that requires a user to provide and verify a lot of information about themselves. A lot is already imported through ...
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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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Yes and No buttons are both positive. Is it okay for these to both be green, implying 'success'?
This is similar to Should "Yes, delete it" be red, or green?, but I feel it isn't quite a duplicate as my situation is different.
I have a form which looks like this:
When a user enters ...
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What would be the best way to display "Content submitted" confirmation message after an user posts a question / answer / comment?
Usually it is displayed similarly to this:
[Your content has been submitted - System message]
[Content - Copy of the content that will be visible]
[Edit | Remove]
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Email: to confirm or not to confirm....that is the question.
I am toying with the sign up process on my website. User email addresses are not critical in the sense that there is no e-commerce on the site. Its a social networking type site for my colleagues. ...
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Native Confirmation Dialog, JS or something else?
I'm writing a page where I'm going to need to use a confirmation dialog.
Should I use Window.confirm() which opens a confirmation dialog in the browser using whatever settings are native to the ...
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Confirmation modal for sensitive actions
I would like to know which of these practices is considered as the best.
A user of my website has the possibility of emptying its shopping basket.
Should I :
ask for confirmation with a modal ?
let ...
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Should I change the text on the save button when confirming the save?
When a user is clicking a button to save some data, in special situations we want to confirm with them that they know the data doesn't match, so the user has to click "Save" and then click "Save" ...
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Which approach is better for Delete confirmation when the operation may fail?
I'm developing an Android application where I have entities A and sub-entities B.
An A can have multiple Bs associated with it. (There's a database check for referential integrity).
I'm planning to ...
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When is it appropriate to require the user to type out the entire word "yes" rather than simply accept "y" at a command-line yes/no prompt?
I've seen several command-line applications, including OpenSSH, which require the user to type the entire word yes or no at a yes/no prompt, rejecting single-letter inputs like y. Here's an example:
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It is possible that a user confirms an email and then tries to come back later and has problem?
Well my situation is that the user signs up, then the used goes to the a page which shows this.
Confirm that this address really belongs to you by clicking a link in
the email. After that you'll ...
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Making user recognise they are writing a public note / message rather than a private note / message
We're building a custom business application which internal staff have access to and also clients have limited access to.
There is an option for the staff to leave a comment / message to each other, ...
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How far in the past should an online order history display orders
An average user of our online store places an order every week. Is it reasonable to drop items out of the order history after 6 months or should these transactions always be accessible from their ...
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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 ...
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