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Here's the reason it needs to be friendly and cute: Non-tech savvy people. When my mom or dad see any error message (notably windows os ones that don't have any
by seltzered_ 15y ago
Here's the reason it needs to be friendly and cute: Non-tech savvy people. When my mom or dad see any error message (notably windows os ones that don't have any oops!), they completely freak out and call me about it.
Do you want all of your non-tech savvy friends calling you about a non-cute error message fearing the apocalypse happened to their computer?
- wmf 15y agoThis is addressed in the article: "What we need to do is dial it down from 11 on the friendly meter…11 is just too creepy. There is a happy middle ground where developers can apologize and software can provide the user polite guidance about what to do next." (The bomb icon on the original Mac was meant to be a joke (computers don't explode, obviously), but there's an apocryphal story that someone ran in a panic when they first saw it.)
- minikomi 15y agoYou could always go with something outright esoteric: http://urgiddi.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/guru-meditation-crisi-finanziaria.jpg http://urgiddi.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/guru-meditation-c...