At 00:33 2000-02-28 -0600, Tim Hockin wrote:
>> Maybe they could put in a "Hey, did you really read what I just said? I'm
>> about to kill all of your data. You sure about this?" message, but that
>> smacks of Microsoft's "Are you sure? Are you really sure? Really and
>> truly? Sure you mean it?".
>
>
>and they should. Most people (based on several years of dealing directly
>with users of UI's I designed) will NOT read the docs, and only skim any
>text on the screen. Making any assumptions about destroying ANYTHING, much
>less partitions, should be HUGE, GLARING and IN YOUR FACE. Sorry to the
>wizrds that you have to hit enter once or twice more. It needs to be
>there.
It would probbly be better to default to not destroying anything. Users are
notorious for not reading the text and just selecting whatever the default
is. Having this result in no installation is probably the only way to make
them actually pay attention.
I don't know how many times I've seen people get confused by a prompt that
says "Press any key to continue..." They just won't read anything if they
don't have to. Make them have to.
Tony
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