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Numbered Error Messages Do Not Work

As part of a series of posts about error messages, this post covers a very specific claim: a single error message picked from a list of error messages is a bad idea and produces poor error reporting.  We start with … Continue reading

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Don’t Erase Wrong Data

Data validation is a tricky area for usability.   On one hand you help the user by catching possible error early.  On the other hand, the validation check can not be perfect, so there are important errors to avoid.

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