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- What is user control and freedom?
- Why is user control and freedom important?
- What is a user control?
- What is user control in design?
What is user control and freedom?
Jakob Nielsen's third usability heuristic for user interface design is user control and freedom. This principle states: Users often choose system functions by mistake and will need a clearly marked “emergency exit” to leave the unwanted state without having to go through an extended dialogue. Support undo and redo.
Why is user control and freedom important?
If we missed providing the user the control and freedom over the things they are using, they will abandon our product. It's very important to provide them the option to correct their mistakes or undo & redo their unintentional clicks.
What is a user control?
User controls are containers into which you can put markup and Web server controls. You can then treat the user control as a unit and define properties and methods for it. Custom controls. A custom control is a class that you write that derives from Control or WebControl.
What is user control in design?
Control is giving your users the control to do what they want or the option to undo something if it all goes to pot. If a user deletes something by mistake and you give an 'undo' option, you're giving the user control.
