I'm currently working on some setting screens, most of which contain a 2 column form with a preference question on the left, and a form element on the right.

The questions are things like:

Can add/edit other users?

Can delete clients?

Obviously this setting is a binary setting and most UI "experts" would insist that a checkbox is the appropriate form element to use.

However, when I mocked up the form with the checkboxes it looked unfriendly and it seemed hard to relate the state of the checkbox back to the question.

I changed the form to use two radio buttons instead:

• Yes o No

Personally I find this easier to process, as the options are actually answers to the question posed on the left.

In terms of clicking it makes no difference to the user, it's a single click each time to change the setting.

What do you think of this use of radio buttons? Is this better or worse than a checkbox and why?