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Summary: Confirmation steps in the interface that slow the user down, encourage reflection, and prevent impulsive or automatic decisions.

Pattern Description

Request Additional Confirmations introduces extra confirmation steps that require users to consciously verify their actions before proceeding. The goal is to mitigate cognitive biases, prevent automatic or impulsive decisions, and promote a more deliberate and reflective user experience.

Interaction Design Implications

Medium level of intervention: Breaks conventional usability principles by intentionally adding friction and slowing down the user flow.

Efficiency vs. Quality: May reduce efficiency or frustrate users if overused but improves decision quality and reduces errors in high-stakes contexts.

Usage

Designers can use this pattern in situations where user actions have important consequences or where errors may be costly. It may be implemented via dialog boxes, additional confirmation prompts, or progressive disclosure steps that require users to acknowledge information or validate choices before proceeding.

Sub Patterns

TBD: No specific sub-patterns were identified.

Examples

TBD: No specific examples were identified.

Metadata & Relations

Heuristic Violations	Nielsen: Flexibility and efficiency of use, Shneiderman: Keep users in control, Nielsen: Error prevention
Sub-patterns	TBD
Related Patterns	Remind of the Consequences, Provoking Deliberate Interaction, Confront the User, Offer Multiple Points of View
Source	Silva, Flávia Catarina Pereira da. 2024. “Design de fricção em interfaces gráficas: estratégias e padrões para promover processos metacognitivos no utilizador.” masterThesis. [1].
License	CC BY 4.0

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-Confirmation steps in the interface that slow the user down, encourage reflection, and prevent impulsive or automatic decisions.
+|Name=Request Additional Confirmations
+|Summary=Confirmation steps in the interface that slow the user down, encourage reflection, and prevent impulsive or automatic decisions.
+|Description=Request Additional Confirmations introduces extra confirmation steps that require users to consciously verify their actions before proceeding. The goal is to mitigate cognitive biases, prevent automatic or impulsive decisions, and promote a more deliberate and reflective user experience.
+|Usage=Designers can use this pattern in situations where user actions have important consequences or where errors may be costly. It may be implemented via dialog boxes, additional confirmation prompts, or progressive disclosure steps that require users to acknowledge information or validate choices before proceeding.
-=Pattern Description=
+== Sub Patterns ==
-Request Additional Confirmations introduces extra confirmation steps that require users to consciously verify their actions before proceeding. The goal is to mitigate cognitive biases, prevent automatic or impulsive decisions, and promote a more deliberate and reflective user experience.
+* '''TBD''': No specific sub-patterns were identified.
-=Sub patterns=
+|Examples=
-TBD
+* '''TBD''': No specific examples were identified.
+|Implications=
+* '''Medium level of intervention''': Breaks conventional usability principles by intentionally adding friction and slowing down the user flow.
+* '''Efficiency vs. Quality''': May reduce efficiency or frustrate users if overused but improves decision quality and reduces errors in high-stakes contexts.
-=Usage=
+|Violates=Nielsen: Flexibility and efficiency of use, Shneiderman: Keep users in control, Nielsen: Error prevention
-Designers can use this pattern in situations where user actions have important consequences or where errors may be costly. It may be implemented via dialog boxes, additional confirmation prompts, or progressive disclosure steps that require users to acknowledge information or validate choices before proceeding.
-=Examples=
+|Subpatterns_Display=TBD
-TBD
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+|Sub2=
-=Interaction design implications=
+|Sub3=
+|Sub4=
-<h4>Medium level of intervention</h4>
+|Related_Display=[[Remind of the Consequences]], [[Provoking Deliberate Interaction]], [[Confront the User]], [[Offer Multiple Points of View]]
-Breaks conventional usability principles by intentionally adding friction and slowing down the user flow. May reduce efficiency or frustrate users if overused but improves decision quality and reduces errors in high-stakes contexts.
+|Rel1=Remind of Consequences
+|Rel2=Provoking Deliberate Interaction
-=Relation with other patterns=
+|Rel3=Confront the User
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+|Rel4=Offer Multiple Points of View
-   <li>[[Remind of Consequences]]
+|Source=Silva, Flávia Catarina Pereira da. 2024. “Design de fricção em interfaces gráficas: estratégias e padrões para promover processos metacognitivos no utilizador.” masterThesis. [https://ria.ua.pt/handle/10773/45001].
-   <li>[[Provoking Deliberate Interaction]]
+|License=https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
-   <li>[[Confront the User]]
+}}
-   <li>[[Offer Multiple Points of View]]
-</ul>
-=Further reading=
-Silva, Flávia Catarina Pereira da. 2024. Design de fricção em interfaces gráficas: estratégias e padrões para promover processos metacognitivos no utilizador. Master’s Thesis.