Do I have a choice?

Friday, July 14. 2006

I thought only novice computer users would always choose cancel while they're getting the question they can't answer. Actually the so-called IT worker like me would choose to get rid of the scary dialog box by clicking cancel or no too. Do I really have a choice?

Posted by Steven Yong in computer at 08:38 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (3)

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I'd like to give clear choices
Good design shouldn't involve guessing game. None of the commenters (like he and she) of my previous post about scary dialog box know what will happen after clicking Yes without actually clicking on it, and so do I. If I were the programmer who designed

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HAHAHA!! You're right!

This is the Oracle Universal Installer... So, I dare not comment too much on it.

Anyway, by clicking "Yes", what happens? Does the installer cancel or do they allow you to choose another location to setup the DB? Maybe they allow you to have that option? (dunno why.. you can always click "back" on the main wizard)

Just wondering...

#1 Angie Tan (Homepage) on 2006-07-14 14:33 (Reply)

What if the person who designed that dialog box intention is for the user to free up space before clicking on the "yes" button? Then it would had been a choice. If the user does not have the ability to allocate enough space, then obviously "no" would be the button to click. I think this is a better design that to alert the message "Error: not enough disk space" and having a button to exit the installer.

Now do you realise how useful the Microsoft Windows is when it pops up the wizard for you to clear space when your space usage is really low?