Ok-Cancel versus Cancel-Ok

Re:Ok-Cancel versus Cancel-Ok by userbinator on Friday June 08, 2018 @08:10PM (#17270740)

That also shows why the "repeat the verb again" can be more confusing. At least it wasn't "Cancel this action?" "Cancel" "Cancel"

On the other hand, I think Yes or No are clearly an answer to "Cancel this action?"

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Re:Ok-Cancel versus Cancel-Ok by sjwright on Friday June 08, 2018 @09:36PM (#17271032)

This is the edgiest of edge cases. Intuitively I would assume that such a dialogue box may be a UX smell and there could be better ways to perform a two stage confirmation.

Or you can just bend the UX rules for this one instance.

Or you can consider whether cancel is the best verb anyway; what about “end” or “stop” or “abort”?

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