Interaction foundation - Archive then delete

There are many ways to handle an "archive then delete" interaction, but some good rules to follow are:

- Make sure you have a repository for your archived items to live. This can be more or less visible depending on the likeliness of users wanting to access the archived items i.e a tab, a link, a dropdown etc.

- If the archived items are somewhat accessible, you can probably get away without a "confirm" action when archiving.

- Allow users to "unarchive" the archived item from within the "Archived" place.

- When deleting permanently, always provide a confirm action. if the removal will be highly destructive, consider an extra step like a series of checkboxes or a text field to confirm the action

- If possible, surface an "UNDO" action un the toast

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Alex Lauderdale
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