Error and Recovery Screen Design Prompt

Use this error and recovery screen design prompt to explain what failed, what was preserved and the available retry or support actions.

Content to Prepare
Identify the failed task, any saved work, available recovery actions and support information. Separate a user-facing explanation from diagnostic identifiers.
Design Focus
Avoid blaming the user and keep technical identifiers separate from the main message.
AI-generated visual concept for error and recovery screen
Error and Recovery Screen
AI-generated visual concept for error and recovery screen

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Create an interactive frontend prototype using the existing project stack and explicitly labeled demo data for [PROJECT] and [AUDIENCE]. The task is: Error and Recovery Screen.

Required content and structure

Explain what failed, what was preserved and the available retry or support actions.

Use [APPROVED_CONTENT] as the source of names, dates, figures, claims and destinations. List missing inputs before substituting anything. If a demonstration is needed, label its content as fictional. Do not invent customer quotes, rankings, partner logos or product capabilities.

Design direction

Use [BRAND_RULES] and the design system already selected in the project. If no system is supplied, start with this direction: warm white, ink text and restrained mint selected states; generous spacing and simple controls. Keep type, spacing and color roles consistent. Prioritize the task over decorative elements and avoid a generic collection of unrelated cards.

Content preparation

Identify the failed task, any saved work, available recovery actions and support information. Separate a user-facing explanation from diagnostic identifiers.

Layout and behavior

Tell the user what happened and what remains intact, then offer the most useful next step. Use retry only when retrying the operation is meaningful.

Task-specific acceptance check

  • Avoid blaming the user and keep technical identifiers separate from the main message.
  • Test repeated failure and a case where work was saved before the error.
  • Keep the message accurate and make support details available without forcing technical language into the main explanation.

Implementation and review

Keep text editable. Use semantic structure, descriptive controls, visible keyboard focus and appropriate empty/error states. Check narrow and wide layouts. Respect reduced-motion preferences. Preserve any existing project framework and dependencies; do not silently replace the stack. Return the editable files and explain any incomplete behavior or unsupported inputs. Review this specific task before proposing extra features.

Reference attachment and reconstruction goal

Attach reference.webp from this prompt’s download bundle alongside this prompt in OpenDesign. Build an editable result with a similar composition and hierarchy; do not embed the whole reference image as the finished interface. Preserve approved project content and brand rules if they conflict with fictional sample labels. If the image is missing or unreadable, ask for it instead of claiming visual fidelity.

Reference composition and content

Use the attached reference.webp as the visual reference for Error and Recovery Screen. Before building, identify the major regions from top to bottom, their relative widths and heights, alignment, spacing, typography hierarchy, surface colors, borders, imagery and repeated components. Preserve those relationships rather than substituting a generic template. Required task content: Explain what failed, what was preserved and the available retry or support actions. Use the following task-specific layout guidance when translating the image into editable elements: Tell the user what happened and what remains intact, then offer the most useful next step. Use retry only when retrying the operation is meaningful.

Visual direction from the example brief

warm white, ink text and restrained mint selected states; generous spacing and simple controls.

Interaction specification

The reference is a static concept: the behavior below is a requirement to implement, not proof that the picture already works. Copy the customized prompt into your working project. Start with the core task: Explain what failed, what was preserved and the available retry or support actions. Avoid blaming the user and keep technical identifiers separate from the main message. For each visible control, specify its trigger, affected state and feedback; implement local changes with consistent state across related views. Give search and filters real results, selection controls an explicit active state, and save actions visible pending/success/failure feedback where relevant. Do not add unrelated workflows. Use proper links for navigation, buttons for actions and accessible names for icon controls. Do not imply a backend operation succeeded when only a local demo changed.

Visual comparison and delivery

  1. Compare the result with the attached image at matching proportions. Review major region placement, relative image sizes, line breaks, spacing, typography hierarchy, contrast, active states and content density before polishing decorative details.
  2. Then test the narrow layout without squeezing desktop text into tiny labels.
  3. Keep logos, photos and icons as separate assets and all meaningful labels editable. List any unavailable fonts/assets and any intentional departures. Return the working files plus a concise account of implemented behavior and remaining integrations; do not promise a pixel-identical result from the prompt alone.

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How to Write an Error and Recovery Screen Design Prompt

Use this error and recovery screen design prompt to explain what failed, what was preserved and the available retry or support actions.

The reference is an AI-generated concept. The instructions below describe what to build and test; the image does not demonstrate working behavior.

Explain What Was Preserved

An error recovery screen should help someone decide whether to retry safely.

AI-generated visual concept for error and recovery screen
Error and Recovery Screen — compare the overall hierarchy with the layout instructions below.

State the affected action and retained work before presenting technical detail. Tell the user what happened and what remains intact, then offer the most useful next step. Use retry only when retrying the operation is meaningful.

From the Prompt

Tell the user what happened and what remains intact, then offer the most useful next step.

Make It Your Own

Explain the failure of [ACTION], identify preserved [USER_DATA] and offer the appropriate retry or support route. Keep diagnostic identifiers in a secondary area.

Prepare the Error and Recovery Screen Content

The main message states that saving failed and separately describes locally preserved changes. Only make this preservation claim if the implementation can actually recover those edits.

Save-failure explanation and preservation notice in the Error and Recovery Screen reference
Save-failure explanation and preservation notice.

Identify the failed task, any saved work, available recovery actions and support information. Separate a user-facing explanation from diagnostic identifiers.

From the Prompt

Explain what failed, what was preserved and the available retry or support actions.

Make It Your Own

For [PROJECT], use [APPROVED_CONTENT] as the source for this error and recovery screen. Identify the failed task, any saved work, available recovery actions and support information. Separate a user-facing explanation from diagnostic identifiers. Identify missing inputs before replacing them with demonstration content.

Retry After Editing

Recovery offers Try Again, Open Local Copy and support rather than a single dismiss action. Test retry failures and ensure opening a local copy cannot overwrite newer work.

Retry, local-copy and support actions in the Error and Recovery Screen reference
Retry, local-copy and support actions.

The user should not lose their entered information or unknowingly duplicate a completed action. If the outcome is uncertain, say what needs checking before retrying. Test repeated failure and a case where work was saved before the error. Keep the message accurate and make support details available without forcing technical language into the main explanation.

From the Prompt

Avoid blaming the user and keep technical identifiers separate from the main message.

Make It Your Own

Review the error and recovery screen against this requirement: Avoid blaming the user and keep technical identifiers separate from the main message. Test repeated failure and a case where work was saved before the error. Keep the message accurate and make support details available without forcing technical language into the main explanation. Preserve approved content and revise only the parts that fail this check.

Review Your Error and Recovery Screen Result

A convincing screen is not a working backend. Test validation, permissions, persistence and failure behavior separately before connecting real data.

  • Test repeated failure and a case where work was saved before the error. Keep the message accurate and make support details available without forcing technical language into the main explanation.

Follow-Up Prompt

Use this after the first result. It narrows the revision to the most important part of this task.

Refine the current error and recovery screen. Test repeated failure and a case where work was saved before the error. Keep the message accurate and make support details available without forcing technical language into the main explanation. Preserve the approved content and visual direction; change only the parts needed to resolve these issues.

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