Seeing the error of your ways

March 3, 2006 | Posted by stuartchurch | Filed under Psychology, Usability  

Some nice, clear and obvious error handling from Direct Line Insurance. There’s no confusion as to where the errors are here!

Clear error handling from Direct Line Insurance

The site also adopts a similar model for presenting additional explanatory information about each field, but uses a blue background instead of red. This is a great example of how the Gestalt principle of continuity can be successfully applied to interface design.

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I'm Stuart Church, a user experience consultant with Pure Usability in Bristol, UK. Sensorydrive is my personal blog and covers user experience design, information architecture, product design, psychology, research methods, perception and pretty much anything else that takes my fancy! You can find out a bit more about me if you want...