Net utility builders are notoriously unhealthy about constructing resilient purposes. All too typically, we implement the “joyful path” after which neglect (or just ignore) the many issues that may go flawed for any quantity of causes. Nevertheless, even when we do account for the “unhappy path”, and we do catch and deal with errors, it isn’t at all times clear how these errors must be offered to the consumer. Fortunately, Tim has some very sensible steerage on the matter that he shares with us:
Error messages despatched to the tip consumer must have an acceptable tone, be freed from tech jargon, and should not move the blame. They need to say what occurred and why, present reassurance, be empathetic, inform them how one can repair it (if potential), and provides them a course for remediation (customer support, assist ticket).
All that and extra on this week’s present:
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