Dialog box
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The design of organisations and products
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Like the “polite notice”, a blight on our modern age. A canker. an almost inevitable transgression of the JC’s seventh law of worker entropy.
Most dialogue boxes are insentient, unwanted interruptions. They require your pointless intervention, before you can carry on the tedious task you were already occupied with. Dialog boxes can and do get buried under other pointless windows, files and dialogues, to the point where that can no longer be found. There they are the cause of many a crashed session.
Ghastly things.
Also, in their way, second-order derivative risk management tools. For what is is a dialogue box meant to achieve but allocation of risk, the can only play itself out upon and not before catastrophe. Does a dialogue box stop you from downloading a harmful worm from the internet in a suspicious attachment? Does a quarterly compliance attestation prevent the mischief thatcompliance in itself is designed to avoid? It's does not. Quite the contrary: it provides comfort –false comfort – that compliance is in hand, de-escalates whatever risk mitigation and minimisation processes might otherwise be available and instead provides a green signal that the legible world is at peace.