When Your Error Page Looks Erroneous
Found, in the wild, a computer-savvy person who thinks Google’s error page is broken.
In reality, Google’s error page repeats its message in a variety of languages, but the user does not have the language packs installed, so the browser represents it as a series of boxes.
Keep in mind, we’re not talking about Roberta here. This is a fellow well acquainted with computers. And a thoughtless Error page design makes him think there’s something wrong beyond what is.
Draw your own lessons from it.