Comments on: Cancel Canceling… http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/05/08/cancel-canceling/ I bake games. Indie style. Thu, 16 May 2013 13:23:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: swordfish http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/05/08/cancel-canceling/comment-page-1/#comment-81127 swordfish Sun, 13 May 2007 01:02:18 +0000 http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/05/08/cancel-canceling/#comment-81127 Ahh yes! Thanks for the link. I was looking everywhere for it, and it was literally right under my nose ;-) Ahh yes! Thanks for the link. I was looking everywhere for it, and it was literally right under my nose ;-)

]]> By: Juuso - Game Producer http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/05/08/cancel-canceling/comment-page-1/#comment-80982 Juuso - Game Producer Sat, 12 May 2007 06:21:33 +0000 http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/05/08/cancel-canceling/#comment-80982 swordfish, could it been <a href='http://www.gameproducer.net/2006/12/31/tip-for-better-usability/' rel="nofollow">this</a>? swordfish, could it been this?

]]> By: swordfish http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/05/08/cancel-canceling/comment-page-1/#comment-80970 swordfish Sat, 12 May 2007 05:14:46 +0000 http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/05/08/cancel-canceling/#comment-80970 Not sure where I found this little tip, but it's a good rule to live by... Use <i>positive</i> labeling of options and actions. e.g., "Enable Sound" instead of "Disable Sound". Not sure what the logic is behind this, but it would seem that "negative" wording tends to lead the user astray. Not sure where I found this little tip, but it’s a good rule to live by…

Use positive labeling of options and actions.
e.g., “Enable Sound” instead of “Disable Sound”.

Not sure what the logic is behind this, but it would seem that “negative” wording tends to lead the user astray.

]]> By: HoboBen http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/05/08/cancel-canceling/comment-page-1/#comment-80950 HoboBen Sat, 12 May 2007 02:54:32 +0000 http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/05/08/cancel-canceling/#comment-80950 I keep seeing more "cancel cancel" options appear recently (are they in fashion now?) - they annoy me, but I just saw a non-techie friend click through a load, and when I asked him if the crap logic of the prompts annoyed him, he just said "bah, what's there to think about? You're cancelling a cancel." I think it only really annoys the computer literate. The technophobes don't usually have a blog to complain about things with anyway :-) But, this is another great tip in user interface design that more people need to think about. Particularly Microsoft. They're suckers for these particular sort of double-negative prompts. I have this page bookmarked, ready to recommend to people: http://www.gameproducer.net/2006/12/31/tip-for-better-usability/ Cheers, and keep 'em coming. :-) I keep seeing more “cancel cancel” options appear recently (are they in fashion now?) – they annoy me, but I just saw a non-techie friend click through a load, and when I asked him if the crap logic of the prompts annoyed him, he just said “bah, what’s there to think about? You’re cancelling a cancel.”

I think it only really annoys the computer literate. The technophobes don’t usually have a blog to complain about things with anyway :-)

But, this is another great tip in user interface design that more people need to think about. Particularly Microsoft. They’re suckers for these particular sort of double-negative prompts.

I have this page bookmarked, ready to recommend to people:
http://www.gameproducer.net/2006/12/31/tip-for-better-usability/

Cheers, and keep ‘em coming. :-)

]]> By: wazoo http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/05/08/cancel-canceling/comment-page-1/#comment-80438 wazoo Wed, 09 May 2007 15:10:14 +0000 http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/05/08/cancel-canceling/#comment-80438 (somewhere back in time...) Msft. Engineer A: "Hey..now that we're making NT we need a key-combination for people to activate the login dialog to the system." Msft. Engineer B: "How about ctrl-alt-delete ?" Msft. Engineer A: "Seriously? But that's like the current key combination to reset the system. Lame." Msft. Engineer B: "Pfft. Think of it like how Apple has you dragging your floppy disk icon to the trash can to eject it from the drive..." (somewhere back in time…)

Msft. Engineer A: “Hey..now that we’re making NT we need a key-combination for people to activate the login dialog to the system.”

Msft. Engineer B: “How about ctrl-alt-delete ?”

Msft. Engineer A: “Seriously? But that’s like the current key combination to reset the system. Lame.”

Msft. Engineer B: “Pfft. Think of it like how Apple has you dragging your floppy disk icon to the trash can to eject it from the drive…”

]]> By: ZeHa http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/05/08/cancel-canceling/comment-page-1/#comment-80378 ZeHa Wed, 09 May 2007 08:39:22 +0000 http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/05/08/cancel-canceling/#comment-80378 How about a "Do what you want, but leave me alone"-key on every keyboard? :) How about a “Do what you want, but leave me alone”-key on every keyboard? :)

]]> By: papamook http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/05/08/cancel-canceling/comment-page-1/#comment-80352 papamook Wed, 09 May 2007 06:22:55 +0000 http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/05/08/cancel-canceling/#comment-80352 gotta love double negatives but a triple would be too far... gotta love double negatives but a triple would be too far…

]]> By: Juuso - Game Producer http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/05/08/cancel-canceling/comment-page-1/#comment-80340 Juuso - Game Producer Wed, 09 May 2007 04:28:46 +0000 http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/05/08/cancel-canceling/#comment-80340 uh... uh…

]]> By: Jake Birkett http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/05/08/cancel-canceling/comment-page-1/#comment-80307 Jake Birkett Wed, 09 May 2007 00:09:14 +0000 http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/05/08/cancel-canceling/#comment-80307 Are you sure that you do not wish to Cancel? Press escape if you do not wish to cancel the cancel. Are you sure that you do not wish to Cancel? Press escape if you do not wish to cancel the cancel.

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