[thoman23]

These are always useful reminders. It's easy to get so lost in designing a system that you forget the perspective of the user, which is what really matters.

One of my current favorites is Rocksmith (guitar learning software), where upon exiting you are prompted with "Do you wish to continue? Yes/No". You as the user need to essentially state, "Yes, I would like to continue...exiting the program". This is right next to another menu option that I sometimes accidentally select which prompts me to "Quit", which in fact just brings up the "select profile" screen. It does boggle the mind how some things like this get all the way to production.

[reagency]

Apple's HIG from THIRTY years ago say to not use Yes/No in dialogs.

[dragonwriter]

The real problem wasn't just Yes/No, it was "Continue" to mean Exit (Continue exiting). Which would have been just as bad if the verb from the question were pushed into the options, as "Do you want to continue? <Continue> <Stop>", where "Continue" still means, as in the question, "continue exiting" and "Stop" means "stop exiting".

"Do you want to exit? <Yes> <No>" would improve what was presented, though, yes, "Do you want to exit? <Exit> <Don't Exit>" would be better. But it was the question more than the manner that the responses were presented that was the problem.