Wednesday, 29 April 2015

Quick snippet: Adobe Reader error message

One of the things I've constantly read about in my UXD studying is how error messages should be informative, helpful and constructive for the user.


Good work Adobe, good work.

It reminds of me of one time I was "using" Baselight, an incredibly advanced/complicated colour grading system made by Filmlight.  It's a desperately unwieldy system, with not so much a learning curve but cliff.  (I get the sense the developers and company take pride in that, though.)  

Anyway, while frantically trying to get some work done it spat out this garbled error message that ended with:

"This can't happen."

Oh wow, good to know, THANKS.

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