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PrincipleOfReversibility

Ben Christel edited this page Dec 27, 2021 · 1 revision

The principle of reversibility says that you should provide "undo" functionality instead of trying to prevent users from making mistakes.

Negative Examples

To this day I've never figured out how to re-dock a toolbar/window in a Windows XP app after undocking it. It's easy to do accidentally (just drag the edge of the window) but there's no obvious way to reverse it.

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