Comments on: Why Good Looking Error Messages Matter http://www.polaine.com/playpen/2008/06/11/why-good-looking-error-message-matter/ Education, Interactivity, Play and Emerging Cultural Forms from Andy Polaine. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:30:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Andy Polaine http://www.polaine.com/playpen/2008/06/11/why-good-looking-error-message-matter/#comment-5824 Andy Polaine Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:35:20 +0000 http://www.polaine.com/playpen/?p=783#comment-5824 <p>The bomb was cute. I can't say I'm so much a fan of OS X's <a href="http://homepage.mac.com/chrisphin/graphics/kernelpanic.jpg" rel="nofollow">grey curtain of death</a>, but at least it is multilingual and tells you what to do.</p> <p>(Nobody noticed my own error in the title of this post? I forgot to write messages plural...)</p> The bomb was cute. I can’t say I’m so much a fan of OS X’s grey curtain of death, but at least it is multilingual and tells you what to do.

(Nobody noticed my own error in the title of this post? I forgot to write messages plural…)

]]> By: Jarrett http://www.polaine.com/playpen/2008/06/11/why-good-looking-error-message-matter/#comment-5821 Jarrett Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:18:08 +0000 http://www.polaine.com/playpen/?p=783#comment-5821 <p>Exactly. Compare, for example, the early Macintosh's charming "bomb" icon that accompanied major system errors. Half the time, Microsoft delivers errors in the language of DOS, esoteric murmurs rich with hexidecimals. Apple understood that even data-disasters should be rendered in their user-friendly pictorial interface.</p> Exactly. Compare, for example, the early Macintosh’s charming “bomb” icon that accompanied major system errors. Half the time, Microsoft delivers errors in the language of DOS, esoteric murmurs rich with hexidecimals. Apple understood that even data-disasters should be rendered in their user-friendly pictorial interface.

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