steve kwan user experience designer

Don't you just hate asynchronous CPIP message failures?

(July 29th, 2006 - 8:04PM)

I got the following error message while trying to check my grades on BCIT's online student service site.

What a helpful error message.

When developing software, it's so important to provide helpful error messages, but very few engineers actually take the time to provide users with effective feedback. Of course, I'm the last person who should get on a soapbox about this - I know I've made that mistake - so I'll just end my complaining now.