Importance of Error Messages
Originally published on my old blog at cumps.be on April 9, 2004.
.NET gave me an error… A ‘Catastrophic failure’.
What’s this? Did somebody run out of inspiration? Every failure is bad! Should I now throw error messages at users stating:
- Disastrous failure.
- Terrible failure.
- Awful failure.
- Dreaded failure.
One of my hard disks crashed two days ago. That is a catastrophic failure!
To read more on error messages, check Michael Bolton’s A Review of Error Messages. Make sure to think about the error messages you’re giving your users!
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