If the notification had described state instead of presumed behavior, this wouldn't have been so alarming. "Unable to sign in" is an accurate report of the problem they're seeing; "you typed wrong" is a (wrong) guess.
Yeah, the designer may not have considered the distinction.
(Or they might have considered it and found they they lose X% of users who are required to make the step from state of the system to concrete user event and user reaction, and they estimated that X% is a lot larger than the Y% chance they guess the situation wrong. Purely speculative.)
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https://9to5google.com/2017/02/23/google-unexpected-sign-out/
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If the notification had described state instead of presumed behavior, this wouldn't have been so alarming. "Unable to sign in" is an accurate report of the problem they're seeing; "you typed wrong" is a (wrong) guess.
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(Or they might have considered it and found they they lose X% of users who are required to make the step from state of the system to concrete user event and user reaction, and they estimated that X% is a lot larger than the Y% chance they guess the situation wrong. Purely speculative.)
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