What are the uses of checking? What are the benefits of confirmation? What is verification?
I am developing a piece of software which shows verification message when the user does something. It can also have a few additional items (eg windows keys, web application etc.) If I did so, how do I test it? For example he wants to do something and the message says (the pattern is decided as in Topic, Description, Buttons, can’t change it)
Check
The system will do this. Agree?
How
do I get comfortable with the word “check”. As a native speaker, do you think I should go for say confirmation or verification?
What are the best writing tips that are effective?
I look at English as a fluent speaker dandy the details. One part of the problem is that it feels brusque, treating the user as someone to be controlled. Another issue is that Check is a little ambiguous
The system wants to check that it should perform the action
or
Please does the user verify that the action to be performed is correct
Are you limited to a single word where check appears? Why are some action cancellations like “Action XYZ
will be taken Please confirm”
and “Do
not cancel”? Notice the
separation of the proposed action and the request for confirmation and the buttons being labelled with instructions.
Example:
File wibble. What if a document is overwritten?
A file name of that name already exists in this folder, it will be overwritten. Do you desire to replace this file?
If you only
had a single word in the first line then I would not use check, this can sound like a command to the user. What should I do, then?
Do you know what you’re doing?
This is the step confirming an action or verifying an instruction.
Confirmation
Saving wibble.doc. A file of that name already exists in this folder, it will be over-written. Can you replace this file?
Can you cancel
a product you have offered on Quora?
I look at English as a fluent speaker dandy the details. One part of the problem is that it feels brusque, treating the user as someone to be controlled. Another issue is that Check is a little ambiguous
The system wants to check that it should perform the action
or
Please does the user verify that the action to be performed is correct
Are you limited to a single word where check appears? Why are some action cancellations like “Action XYZ
will be taken Please confirm”
and “Do
not cancel”? Notice the
separation of the proposed action and the request for confirmation and the buttons being labelled with instructions.
Example:
File wibble. What if a document is overwritten?
A file name of that name already exists in this folder, it will be overwritten. Do you desire to replace this file?
If you only
had a single word in the first line then I would not use check, this can sound like a command to the user. What should I do, then?
Do you know what you’re doing?
This is the step confirming an action or verifying an instruction.
Confirmation
Saving wibble.doc. A file of that name already exists in this folder, it will be over-written. Can you replace this file?
Can you cancel
a product you have offered on Quora?
