Day: May 22, 2009

  • Why Cancel and Submit are bad button names

    Always try to use verbs for your affirmative and negative actions.  Imagine the button is a normal person (not an engineer) saying exactly what they want to do.  Example:  [Cancel My Subscription] [No, Keep it].  Make it crystal clear what the buttons mean.  Never use OK and Cancel.  OK isn’t clear.  Besides, the user wants…

  • Radio Found!

    I found the radio I lost.  One might say it is a waste of money to buy the new radio and ear buds when I found the old ones, but I feel quite the opposite.  Buying an inferior solution made me value the old solution even more.  It made me all the happier to be…