Thanks! That Was Sooo Helpful…Sigh…

by Paul Sherman on March 27, 2009 · 4 comments

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Not much to say about this little guy, except that it reduces peoples’ trust in a website when these types of error messages show up.

I know, I get it: this type of message is helpful to the programmer. But does it have to be exposed to the customer?

http://yoavrubin.blogspot.com/ Yoav

This is not helpful for the programmer :-)
http://www.fraserhamilton.com Fraser Hamilton

Oh! Error messages should give a description of the problem that users understand and help in solving it… this fails on both accounts.
Brad C.

Actually, as a Programmer (One that actually pays attention to usability), I can tell you that the above error is a huge pain! Not only is it not usable for the end user, but it's hardly useful to the programmer trying to figure out what to fix!

Great Blog by the way!
Brad C.

Actually, as a Programmer (One that actually pays attention to usability), I can tell you that the above error is a huge pain! Not only is it not usable for the end user, but it's hardly useful to the programmer trying to figure out what to fix!

Great Blog by the way!