You got it 99% right and its only gotten better over the years. Glance through the book The Universal Principles of Design and you’ll learn about creating things in such a way that the user can’t fail. The message is not consistent with the severity of the action it initiates. That’s the message the button should convey visually. “I will delete the (expletive) out of this draft, son. There is nothing about the “Discard Drafts” button that says,

But user beware the Discard Drafts button in the Drafts section. Granted, if you’re in the inbox, when you click Discard, there is a temporary “Undo” period. There is no confirmation to explain the consequences of this irreversible action. Should we? The Gmail interface doesn’t explicitly or implicitly say that I will not be able to find discarded drafts in the Trash. The popular answer on Google discussion threads are, “You should have known better. There are Gmail users who have lost drafts of love letters to children, important business responses, and other irreplaceable or inconveniently lost documents. I just want my draft back.”Īfter googling “ accidentally discarded drafts” I found that I’m not the only one whose had this problem. Or in Gmail terms, “deleted beyond all recognition, and NOT held in the Trash like deleted messages, you should’ve used Google Docs, and your hair looks funny.” After the accidental click, it was “discarded”. I also happened to have an important long-winded response selected. I accidentally clicked the Discard Drafts button while scrolling by a different part of the page in Gmail. I love everything about Gmail except one thing…ĭiscarded drafts are unrecoverable without warning. I think Gmail should send discarded drafts to trash.If you accidentally discard a draft its gone forever.

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