Error Messages Are an Anti-Pattern

By Steven Hoober Published: November 9, 2015 “At the core of user-centered design is the understanding that users are our biggest resource constraint—and the hardest thing to change.” Since I wrote my article “Mobile Inline Form Validation” for UXmatters back in 2012, I have very rarely used any of those patterns in my own work. Recently, when I created a pattern library for mobile applications for a big, multinational, corporate client, I didn’t include any of those tips. Since the publication of that article, I have identified and begun to follow a few principles that are I hope more user centric. Don’t See Users As the Source of Errors If you design systems, you are familiar with constraints. For example, it is hard to add new fields to a database; mobile networks sometimes provide poor connectivity or have slow performance or high latency. Typically, system design takes such constraints—and, of course, costs—into account in determining what a team can build.

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