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Auditing a Destructive-Action Confirmation Flow

A billing settings page has a "Cancel subscription" link. Clicking it opens a dialog:

"Are you sure?" Buttons: [No] [Yes]

Analytics show 8% of users who open this dialog click "Yes" within one second of it appearing — faster than most people could plausibly read the dialog text — and a meaningful fraction of those later contact support asking to be reinstated, saying they "didn't mean to cancel."

  1. Identify the specific microcopy problem causing the fast, apparently-unintentional "Yes" clicks.
  2. Rewrite the dialog's heading and both buttons to fix it.
  3. This dialog is also the one screen in the product where a localization team flagged a layout bug: the "Yes" / "No" buttons are hard-coded to 60px wide, and the French translation ("Continuer" / "Annuler la résolution") overflows badly. Explain the connection between this bug and the button-copy fix from part 2 — does making the button labels more specific make the localization problem better, worse, or unrelated, and why?
  4. Propose one additional (non-copy) safeguard appropriate for a destructive, hard-to-reverse action like this.

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