Big A** Mutant Blog

I couldn't pass this one up.

A couple of posts ago I blogged about bad UI design.  A couple of months ago I started a MySpace page just to play around with skinning and messing around with web UI.  And if you visit my page you will see there is basically nothing there, but at least I have 1 friend now.

Which brings me to my entry.  When I was adding Chris to my friends list it came up with a security prompt:



Hmmmm.... Gee I wish I could remember Chris Toohey's last name. 

OK, looks like the MySpace programmers didn't really think this error message all the way through.

OK, Lotusphere just ended last week and one of the sessions I attended was Bruce Elgort and Chris Blatnick's session "YIKES!... It Looks Like That?"  In this session they discussed items not only of the UI design but also of helpful and helpful error messages.

Well, I just ran into this in real life.  I was trying to set up an LEI activity to import data from an external file. When I tried to save the activity document I was presented the error message below:

"Required?... but it is optional.....but if it's optional, it can't be required!  ERROR! ERROR!" (brain shuts down)

Just wanted to share this for some levity for the day.