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Provide Easy Ways to Revert or Escape
UX Guidelines

Provide Easy Ways to Revert or Escape

Help users return to a previous state of the interface.

Interfaces are like roads.

Users might travel down a road, then realize it's the wrong direction.

Help them return to a previous road.

How to Apply

  • Let Users Undo Multiple Levels of Action. Store a backlog of their actions.
Multiple recent actions that user can do
  • Skip Confirmations in Easily Reversible Decisions. Confirmations can become annoying. Provide undos when possible.
Settings changed. Undo

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