Review before submitting

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Before the final action, the system shows every answer the actor has given on one screen, grouped as they were asked. Each answer has an Edit link that goes to the place it was entered and returns the actor to the review afterwards. The button that commits names what happens (“Create account”, “Deploy cluster”, “Place order”) rather than “Submit” or “Finish”.

The closing step of a wizard is the most common place for it, but a long single-page form can end with one too.

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Related patterns

Enables

  • Form — “Where the set is large or the commitment costly, end with a review before submitting, and let status feedback report what the submission did.”
  • Wizard — “End with a review before submitting, every answer in one place and each linked back to its step, so the actor checks the whole before committing it”

Related to

  • Change review — change review shows a change the system proposes to existing content; review before submitting shows the actor their own answers