Error messages. You encounter them just about every day. No single person is perfect, nor is every website. Error messages are an inevitability. Thus learning to both deal with them, and make them a seamless part of your user experience is key.

Errors are a key component of learning, it is through trial and error as children that we learn how the world works. It is continuous – we all make mistakes and we learn from them. Regardless, this doesn’t detract from the frustration of being met by the red banded text. Glaring in your face like a matador’s cape, as your face blends to a similar tone of maroon – all because, ‘the computer says no’.
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