Error Prevention & Recovery — Roadmap Step & Resources
Designing to stop mistakes before they happen, and to make recovery painless when they do
- Level: advanced
- Estimated time: 1 days
- Roadmap: UX Design
Before this step
Mini projects
- Redesign a destructive action (e.g. delete account) to add appropriate error prevention and recovery
Study resources
- Error Prevention (Article) — Nielsen Norman Group's guide to preventing and recovering from user errors.
- Error Prevention and Recovery Explained (Video) — Covers designing forgiving interfaces that help users recover from mistakes.
Part of
- Interaction Design — section
- UX Design roadmap — the full learning path