{"id":6782,"date":"2014-01-20T14:54:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T19:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/?p=6782"},"modified":"2020-07-11T13:37:55","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T17:37:55","slug":"20-365-confirmation-design-principle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2014\/01\/20\/20-365-confirmation-design-principle\/","title":{"rendered":"20 of 365: Confirmation #design principle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6783\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20-of-365-Confirmation-design-principle.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6783\" data-attachment-id=\"6783\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2014\/01\/20\/20-365-confirmation-design-principle\/20-of-365-confirmation-design-principle\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20-of-365-Confirmation-design-principle.png?fit=1000%2C667&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1000,667\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20 of 365 &amp;#8211; Confirmation design principle by John LeMasney via lemasney.com\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;20 of 365 &amp;#8211; Confirmation design principle by John LeMasney via lemasney.com&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;20 of 365 &amp;#8211; Confirmation design principle by John LeMasney via lemasney.com&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20-of-365-Confirmation-design-principle.png?fit=1000%2C667&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6783\" alt=\"20 of 365 - Confirmation design principle by John LeMasney via lemasney.com\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20-of-365-Confirmation-design-principle.png?resize=1000%2C667&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20-of-365-Confirmation-design-principle.png?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20-of-365-Confirmation-design-principle.png?resize=500%2C333&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6783\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">20 of 365 &#8211; Confirmation design principle by John LeMasney via lemasney.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Confirmation is necessary when you want to remind, warn, or make a user especially aware of the importance of a change or choice that they are about to make. Confirmation can happen in industrial design, such as when you have to confirm your intention to arm a device by lifting a protective flap over a trigger, but we meet it far more often in software, where we are asked if we really want to perform an action. A very simple implementation of confirmation occurs on websites with the JavaScript alert function.<\/p>\n<p>In this illustration, I thought it would be a wonderful thing to have a tool that would simply remove you from all social media presence in an instant. 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