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Smart Defaults in UX

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People rarely change defaults

Default are settings or values set when you start using an App or Product (out of the box setting).

Most of the time users won’t change these settings so these default settings play vital role and make decisions for their user.

Less than 5% of users change default settings (Jarod Spool)

Default settings of smartphones

Have you ever thought that what if your smart phone’s ring tone is at 90% volume out of the box. What if they set it to no ring tone by default?

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Smart defaults examples

Pre-populating form fields with users location, country or phone code is another example of Smart Defaults in web Forms.

Ex: having AutoSave turned on by default in Google Docs, Sheets etc. So users don’t have to manually save their work.

Ex: Good privacy settings are on by default (Facebook)

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