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Experience Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ User Experience Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for user experience researchers and experts. Join them; it generic error meaning only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top What is the recommended wording for a generic error message up vote 36 down vote favorite 19 What would be the best wording for a generic error message? With error message examples text generic error message I mean a message for an error that has occured but there are no details on what the error is or how to recover from it. It will be used exclusively as a fallback solution when it is not possible to determine the error either because the server did not sent any additional details or there is a "probable" timeout... and other similar edge cases. It should be aimed to minimize the amount of frustration/anger. I've read a few threads but none of them seems to be 100% relevant Recommendations for good resources on writing good error messages Standardized (web) application error messages? [closed] This is actually a very close match but error reports are out of scope in my case What will be the Best notifications and error messages? Error Message Advice (for asynchronous/background tasks) Generic/vague error messages to pass to spammy users? copywriting error-message wording share|improve this question edited May 4 '13 at 13:32 JohnGB♦ 57.7k19154265 asked May 3 '13 at 15:11 Toni Toni C
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no hints as to why that is or how they can fix it. Form validation errors are inevitable. Yes, they can (and should) be minimized, but http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/39101/what-is-the-recommended-wording-for-a-generic-error-message validation errors won’t ever be eliminated – they are a natural part of complex forms and user’s data input. The key question then is how to make it easy for the user to recover from form errors. In this article we’ll go over findings from our usability studies on how the wording of http://baymard.com/blog/adaptive-validation-error-messages validation error messages largely determines the user’s error recovery experience, and how “Adaptive Error Messages” have shown to significantly reduce the user’s error recovery time. Common fields that we frequently observe to cause cause validation issues during testing include: phone number (formatting), state text field (‘TX’ vs. ‘Texas’), dates (month names or digits), monetary amounts (decimal separator, thousand separators, currency, etc) credit card number (are spaces allowed?), and address (street number in address line 1 or 2?). Generic Error Messages When benchmarking the checkout process of 100 major e-commerce sites, we found that most form validation error messages are woefully generic. This is problematic because it doesn’t do much in way of helping the user understand what the error is and how to fix it. Generic error messages tend to run the spectrum from unhelpful to completely useless. For instance, during benchmarking we saw the ‘Phone’ field yield error messages such as: “Invalid” “Not a valid US phon
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Search Topics menu WET project Implement WET Contribute to WET You are here: Home Working examples Form validation Form validation Documentation Questions or comments? Purpose Provides generic validation and error message handling for Web forms. Example Contact information Title (required) Dr. Esq. Mr. Ms. View code