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Do you do this UX mistake? Making It Hard to Close Popups 🙄

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UX mistake: Making It Hard to Close Popups

Popups can be a good way to show meta-information or to confirm an action. Unexpected popups are pretty annoying and making them hard to close will make your users mad. Pressing the close icon or cancel button should not be the only way to close a popup.

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Make the clickable area of the close icon at least 40 x 40 pixels and hide popups when the user clicks on the background or presses the escape key.

Popup rules

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Design and UX
on January 4, 2021
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    Super useful tip.

    Always really annoys me as a visitor when this kind of thing doesn't work as expected!

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