
Design for Real Life with Eric Meyer & Sara Wachter-Boettcher
User Defenders – UX Design & Personal Growth
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How to Be Clever on the Web
If you're like a stand up comedian, you can make a joke and it might actually be something that misses the mark for some of the people in the audience. But on the web, there isn't that sort of collective experience. And so a little bit of clever copy about, oh, looks like you've forgotten your password. You put in your password wrong too many times. Maybe the Alzheimer's is setting in. Yeah. It's sort of an example of that kind of thing. I was like, hey, we're going to be clever here. If you fail, and again, like Harris Harris said before, you end up sort of alienating the user that you're trying
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