I ofttimes make the misstake of accidentally checking the "don't evidence this message again" checkbox when using tab and spacebar to navigate. Since I'thou asking to never see the bulletin again, undoing that action is usually hard. Sometimes, it'due south hidden abroad under settings somewhere, and sometimes it's nowhere to be found.

What's a good style to allow users to undo "don't evidence this over again" actions?

asked Jan 16, 2016 at 20:44

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  • If you lot already have a carte called preferences, that'll exist the place.

    Jan 16, 2016 at 22:17

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A tenet of good user feel in software is system feedback. In this instance, the organization should confirm it will no longer show y'all notifications... which is a practiced place to offer an undo option, as well as tell them where they can change their preferences.

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answered Jan 17, 2016 at 13:07

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  • I like this answer and love the UI of the popups, only am I the only one that finds information technology ironic that a popup tip appears to tell you that you chose to see no more popup tips?

    Jan 19, 2016 at 21:21

  • Personally, I detect this solution doesn't work at all. You're showing this data once at a time that I don't care nigh it (obviously I'm disabling the warning because I don't call up I demand information technology over again). Months subsequently, when I want to contrary that decision, there'south very petty chance I'll recall what that message said.

    January 20, 2016 at 0:42

Another way, depending on the message type, could exist to replace "Don't prove this message once again" by "Don't terminate on this <whatsoever> any more", which is in fact what the user wants.
And then, the user could be notified (for instance by stacking the letters in a notifications area) but the activeness wouldn't be halted only for a brusk while (similar 700ms) in order to let the user to react when needed.
A [finish] push would show in the communications expanse for the user to regain control whenever he sees fit.

answered Jan 19, 2016 at 20:53

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  • I'one thousand having trouble understanding your instance. Could you lot please endeavour to explain a chip more?

    Jan 19, 2016 at 20:56

  • I remember he's suggesting replacing a modal bulletin with a non-modal in a notification pane.

    January 20, 2016 at 0:43

  • Steve is right. There are occasions when the user volition not desire to exist stopped past a repeating modal message, but might anyway desire to see daid messages. The proposition is, subsequently the user opted not to be stopped each fourth dimension, to stack said messages in a notification pane. IMO this pane might take a [stop] push for the user to recover control when needed.

    Jan 21, 2016 at 0:22

  • Funny thing is, and then nosotros need the same matter for the notifications, considering that small scarlet badge drives me crazy, so I accept to marking them as read, even the ones i didn't desire to run into

    Jan 21, 2016 at half dozen:02

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