Comments on: Principles Of Software Design http://trybeta.com/blog/?p=14 Testing Makes Perfect Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:56:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Angus Gratton http://trybeta.com/blog/?p=14#comment-8 Angus Gratton Fri, 06 Oct 2006 00:22:12 +0000 http://trybeta.com/blog/2006/08/22/principals-of-software-design/#comment-8 >error codes … should be converted into plane English Is that the English spoken on airlines, or aviation technical jargon? ;-). Great article. I especially liked your other post on adding Features. >Wouldn’t it be scary if you pressed the Delete button by accident and >the confirmation message that appeared did not include a Cancel >button? I just bought a new mobile phone which has this exact dialog when you accidentally press a button while typing a text message. WTF? Who designs these things? >error codes … should be converted into plane English

Is that the English spoken on airlines, or aviation technical jargon?

;-). Great article. I especially liked your other post on adding Features.

>Wouldn’t it be scary if you pressed the Delete button by accident and
>the confirmation message that appeared did not include a Cancel
>button?

I just bought a new mobile phone which has this exact dialog when you accidentally press a button while typing a text message. WTF? Who designs these things?

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