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josefresco on July 2, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: 8 Golden Rules of Interface Design

"Permit easy reversal of actions" is kind of a toughy and rare among web apps. Also not quite an interface item as it takes some substantial functionality in the code to accomplish.

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sanj on July 2, 2008 | [–]

Users don't care about it being "tough" or "rare", they just want it to work.

And decoupling interface thinking from code is a mistake.

Schneiderman talks about this in some of his papers: design the interface, then write code.

orib on July 2, 2008 | [–]

So it's hard to write programs that aren't steaming piles of crap. Your point?

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