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Confirmation & acknowledgement

When a user invokes an action in your app, confirm or acknowledge that action through text.

Usage

Confirming and acknowledging actions can help alleviate uncertainty about things that have happened or will happen. It also prevents users from making mistakes they might regret.

  • Confirming involves asking the user to verify that they want to proceed with an action.
  • Acknowledging is displaying text to let the user know that the action they chose has been completed.

Confirmation

Confirmation asks to verify users to proceed with the action they just invoked.

  • Confirmation may contain warning or critical information.
  • Modal dialog titles for confirmations should be meaningful and echo the requested action.
  • Confirmations are unnecessary if consequences of action are reversible or negligible.

Acknowledgement

Acknowledgement removes uncertainty about implicit operations that the system is taking. It may be paired with an option to undo the action.