[thelist] Reset Button

Rick den Haan rick.denhaan at gmail.com
Wed Jan 26 09:42:02 CST 2005


Which is exactly why my Reset-buttons are always labeled "Undo all
changes" or similar. Problem solved!

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:21:20 -0400, Sarah Sweeney
<mr.sanders at designshift.com> wrote:
> The problem is that most people don't know what a Reset button does. As
> we can see in this thread, there's even a significant number of
> developers who don't really know what it does. Why add a Reset button
> that will just complicate the form and confuse the user? In terms of
> usability, it's a bad idea for this reason and the reasons mentioned in
> the Jakob Nielsen article..


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