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Thursday, August 9, 2007

Question of a Dialog Box..

Buttons, Are they always intuitive?

standard windows buttons which are known are "Yes" "No" "Ok" "Cancel"

I recently came across Jakob Neilson's post on a dialog box

He talks about how using universal dialog boxes can help users understand and use the interface better..
Here I have an interesting example to quote.

I recently came across the NEW Indesign CS3.While making a document, I found that the three buttons "YES", "NO", and "CANCEL" have been explained in words..
Just see the images for reference:

I would like to know how Jakob Neilson would explain this.

As far as my thinking takes me,Not all questions can be answered in a Yes and a No.
In such a case, how should the user be asked about his choices?