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Double clicking a "No" button should mean yes, of course.


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To be fair, you’re often punished for clicking No (it takes longer, may cause a reload), so you’d need a very good reason to not click Yes.

Yes. I don’t want to press the “no” button for a 100 times.

If the “yes” button was easier to click than the “no” button 90% of people would.

Yes well that is exactly why they are ensuring the "NO" button is at least as large as the "yes" button. It's still not critical since the point, again, is to make them annoying to use; offering choice is secondary.

Why.... why would there be a no button

He switched the yes/no button position... they would have automatically click "no" instead...

A quick way to teach users never to click that button again, I'd say.

are you actually hitting the "No" button, and providing a reason, or are you just closing the dialog?

The point is that the question should not be phrased in such a way the the meanings of the text on the buttons could be ambiguous.

OK/Cancel is better than Yes/No, but (as noted in the top answer) worse than stating specifically what clicking the button will do.


What's wrong with clicking no thanks?

Why do you need to answer no and right-click otherwise? If you don't want it, you close the dialog; closing it effectively means "No thanks". You're not going to be right-clicking on that logo often like a mad man. The current solution makes perfect sense. Your solution is terrible and overly complex.

Click the word "No" in the text above the button. Works better on mobile browsers.

All you have to do is click "No thanks".

> Please click yes to agree to the Terms and Conditions. Or No to decline

Click No. Not all buttons are styled as buttons!


I get that, but the point is that I accidentally clicked No because instinctively I thought that was the way to dismiss the bar (in my mind it was something like: do you want to provide feedback yes/no, to which I clicked no). Only after clicking I realized my error.

I would choose that button particularly because the "not now" button sounds like it would prompt us again in the future. It really doesn't sound like an opt-out.

Exactly. The dialog is based on the assumption that both options are equally likely to be used. That's simply not true. A user might click no but will almost always click yes. A dialog that almost always receives the same answer should be eliminated.

| Wait a minute, what the hell do you think got them in the habit of compulsively clicking "yes"?

The user is trying to do something (check email, save a note, play angry birds). Something is in their way, and there is an obvious way to get it out of their way. It has nothing to do with UI design or habits.


"No."

Saved you a click.

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