Cancel dialog text. Is this good?

I have a dialog that comes up when someone cancels creating a new piece of data.

They click cancel and the dialog says:

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TITLE: Exist & Cancel New DataItem?
TEXT: You’ll lose any unsaved work.
2 BUTTONS: No, Keep Editing | Yes, Exit This

I’m worried this is confusing. What do you think?

Generally, while I understand you want to avoid people cancelling unintentionally, I think the affirmative action should be the primary one. I would assume they want to cancel, and we ask them to confirm this for their sake.

Switching it around as in your example feels a bit threatening. It might give the sense of having done something wrong, instead of a friendly reminder…

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Add colors to the buttons and you’ll be ok

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It seems to me that color is not planned into the design language.

From an UX writing perspective, it’s almost fine in my opinion. I am not sure if the action intro needs a question mark, but since it’s also a dialog, questioning might be alright. Think about getting rid of the Ampersand (&), it looks cool and all, but not all users expect it in that context, since it’s mostly used in a noun combination like Research & Development or name branding like H&M. Also, does the user know what a DataItem is?

I don’t know the whole flow, maybe you can give information to the user to where they will return to by activating the exit button. So it also depends on when this dialog is coming up. Is it routine procedure to exit and cancel, or will the dialog pop up when the user is doing a mistake.

What I would think about is going straight into UI perspective:

  • A rounded Button is mostly used for CTA buttons (call to action) for prominent things like “Apply Now”, “Register” etc. so turning down the curvature already makes it less prominent.
  • The buttons are very far away, check into the material design guidelines created by Google to see how you can place them to form a consistent button field.

I know this is an old post, but I’ll comment anyway :smiley:

The first thing I noticed was the use of & in the text. I would write write out the work and and would avoid capitalizing the first letter of the word.

For the button text, there’s a great writeup over on uxmovement (can’t post a link) with do’s and don’t.

I have had this situation in a couple of case, I’d go for:

Would you like to save before leaving?
[ Yes, save] [ No, leave ]

But not sure if that’s an option in your case.