Rule n° 85 - Form submission is followed by a message indicating whether or not the action was successful.
Often a user is directly returned to the home page of a site after sending a form. In this case, there may be doubts about the success of sending the form. A simple message leaves the user with no niggling doubts.
Goal
- Give the user immediate, explicit feedback on the action they just performed.
- Prevent user frustration when they think the process was a success, but there was, in fact, a problem.
Solution technique
Return an explicit confirmation page after submitting a form.
Moyen de contrôle
For each form
- Submit the form completely;
- Check that the final submission of the form results in the display of a confirmation page explicitly indicating the success or failure of the operation.