User experience question for auto-binding inputs

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When you have an input (mine is in a repeating group like below, but this question applies to any input)…

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  1. Do you allow auto-binding or do you give people something to click to save the input? Auto-binding is slick but I wonder if some people will get confused when there’s nothing to click - even for me, after I change one of the numbers, I find myself feeling like I should be clicking something.

  2. Do you give them a confirmation after they have changed a value? If so, what’s your favorite way of doing it?

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I used the plugin Toasty Notification Pro action to indicate ‘saving’. Fast duration.

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I go for the first option and only display a confirmation alert if it’s something that users need to be sure has been taken into account or that they can’t confirm visually right away.

Side note: for some reason, doing a “when input’s value is changed, make change to a thing” is somewhat smoother than auto-binding - if someone knows why, I’d be interested to know :slight_smile:

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In terms of UX I would always present a notification for auto-binding. Probably not a toast because it’s too heavy but maybe an animated icon next to the input or in the input itself.

Something like this.

https://codepen.io/ashleygalante/pen/nwoKh/

Ideally an SVG.

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