Undo beats “Are you sure?”
A confirmation dialog asks people to predict their own mistakes. Undo lets them make one and recover. One of these respects how people actually work.
ON — UNDO VS. CONFIRMATION DIALOGS(02) PERSPECTIVEA JOURNAL — PHOTOGRAPHS · TAKES · THOUGHTS · READING
Things Inotice.(OPEN NOTEBOOK)
Photographs I’ve taken, takes on interfaces and product ideas, thoughts I keep coming back to, and writing worth reading. Less a blog, more a notebook I leave open. DRAFT COPY
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4 ENTRIES[Place] — [What made you stop here?]
[Place] — [A detail you noticed]
[Place] — [A visual experiment]
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Design takes
3 ENTRIESMinimal isn’t the same as clear.
Hiding labels behind icons makes a screen look calm and makes people work harder. Sometimes clarity needs more words on the screen, not fewer.
ON — ICON-ONLY INTERFACESA skeleton is a promise.
It tells you the shape of what’s coming. When the real content looks nothing like it, the promise breaks — and the wait feels longer than a plain spinner would have.
ON — SKELETON SCREENSThoughts
3 ENTRIESComplexity itself isn’t the enemy. The interesting part is figuring out what actually needs to be complicated — and what doesn’t.
Good design isn’t only about making something look right. It’s about making it make sense.
The mess is usually where the good questions are.
On the reading table
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