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	<title>Comments on: Rhetorical dialog boxes anyone?</title>
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	<description>In pursuit of The Idea</description>
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		<title>By: Alex</title>
		<link>http://www.jurecuhalev.com/blog/2009/02/10/rhetorical-dialog-boxes-anyone/comment-page-1/#comment-18407</link>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve often wondered about the use of single-button dialog boxes (regardless of the text being a question or not). &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If you&#039;re not giving the user a choice, why notify the user? It&#039;s not like he/she can do anything about it with a single button. If it&#039;s something important, give the user a choice to avoid the outcome. If it&#039;s not important enough to warrant a choice, you might be better off notifying the user via a status bar (or notification popup, but we hate those too). Jure, what does your usability-expertise say on this?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;On interesting dialogs, this: &lt;a href=&quot;http://alextreme.org/gfx/verpl_of_kopieren.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://alextreme.org/gfx/verpl_of_kopieren.png&lt;/a&gt; IE dialog is probably as good as I get them (Dutch: Do you want to move or copy files out of this zone? Buttons: Yes / No). It&#039;s probably due to a sloppy translator though, not a logical error by the developers themselves.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;On the QA tool: perhaps it&#039;s simply a better idea to just add a new line to your QA guide to check all dialog boxes for logical questions? I&#039;m all for NLP, but there are likely to be other problems with dialog boxes beyond this example.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#39;ve often wondered about the use of single-button dialog boxes (regardless of the text being a question or not). </p>
<p>If you&#39;re not giving the user a choice, why notify the user? It&#39;s not like he/she can do anything about it with a single button. If it&#39;s something important, give the user a choice to avoid the outcome. If it&#39;s not important enough to warrant a choice, you might be better off notifying the user via a status bar (or notification popup, but we hate those too). Jure, what does your usability-expertise say on this?</p>
<p>On interesting dialogs, this: <a href="http://alextreme.org/gfx/verpl_of_kopieren.png" rel="nofollow">http://alextreme.org/gfx/verpl_of_kopieren.png</a> IE dialog is probably as good as I get them (Dutch: Do you want to move or copy files out of this zone? Buttons: Yes / No). It&#39;s probably due to a sloppy translator though, not a logical error by the developers themselves.</p>
<p>On the QA tool: perhaps it&#39;s simply a better idea to just add a new line to your QA guide to check all dialog boxes for logical questions? I&#39;m all for NLP, but there are likely to be other problems with dialog boxes beyond this example.</p>
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		<title>By: Jure Cuhalev</title>
		<link>http://www.jurecuhalev.com/blog/2009/02/10/rhetorical-dialog-boxes-anyone/comment-page-1/#comment-18406</link>
		<dc:creator>Jure Cuhalev</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There is any :) OS X doesn&#039;t have and X on Dialog boxes :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is any <img src='http://www.jurecuhalev.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  OS X doesn&#39;t have and X on Dialog boxes <img src='http://www.jurecuhalev.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: ana</title>
		<link>http://www.jurecuhalev.com/blog/2009/02/10/rhetorical-dialog-boxes-anyone/comment-page-1/#comment-18405</link>
		<dc:creator>ana</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, it doesn&#039;t seem rhetorical to me. When I get it there is an option to click &quot;X&quot; to close it. This is very useful when there are many windows/tabs open and you forget that that you are already working on this document and want to keep the changes.&lt;br&gt;Although, I don&#039;t see the X on your screenshoot ... Is it cut out or there isn&#039;t any?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, it doesn&#39;t seem rhetorical to me. When I get it there is an option to click &#8220;X&#8221; to close it. This is very useful when there are many windows/tabs open and you forget that that you are already working on this document and want to keep the changes.<br />Although, I don&#39;t see the X on your screenshoot &#8230; Is it cut out or there isn&#39;t any?</p>
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		<title>By: Swizec</title>
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		<dc:creator>Swizec</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve never in my life seen an interesting dialog box. Hell, I&#039;m a developer and never read them just guess what button I want to click to continue with what I&#039;m doing.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Sadly this has often led to accidentally dropping too many tables or something out of a database, but hey, backup. And I do think many of these dialog boxes could be dealt away with by software having a revision system in place so you can just rollback if you screw something up.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Dialog boxes are evil.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#39;ve never in my life seen an interesting dialog box. Hell, I&#39;m a developer and never read them just guess what button I want to click to continue with what I&#39;m doing.</p>
<p>Sadly this has often led to accidentally dropping too many tables or something out of a database, but hey, backup. And I do think many of these dialog boxes could be dealt away with by software having a revision system in place so you can just rollback if you screw something up.</p>
<p>Dialog boxes are evil.</p>
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		<title>By: Jure Cuhalev</title>
		<link>http://www.jurecuhalev.com/blog/2009/02/10/rhetorical-dialog-boxes-anyone/comment-page-1/#comment-18402</link>
		<dc:creator>Jure Cuhalev</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yes. I&#039;ll patch it a bit now though, so hopefully these errors go away :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes. I&#39;ll patch it a bit now though, so hopefully these errors go away <img src='http://www.jurecuhalev.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Bufo</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bufo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>WOW what the heck is that? :)&lt;br&gt;Did it happen on MS Office 2008?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WOW what the heck is that? <img src='http://www.jurecuhalev.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> <br />Did it happen on MS Office 2008?</p>
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