Summary: Design effective error messages by ensuring they are highly visible, provide constructive communication, and respect user effort. Over 30 years ago, Jakob Nielsen created 10 Usability Heuristics as general guidelines for designing digital products. These heuristics equally apply today as they did back then. Usability heuristic #9 emphasizes the importance of good error-message design: "He
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