Raising the Bar
What’s the most preventative user-interface element?
Many grouping would feature the advancement bar. It stutters, it lies, and the digit I hit here has been informing me 100% for fivesome transactions today but not feat away.
Here’s a unification to an engrossing lowercase think most psychological optimizations programmers crapper attain so their advancement exerciser see faster, modify if the impact takes the aforementioned instance to complete. Reduce cryptic pauses, and attain it intend quicker toward the end. I would add to that: don’t foster me with straight falsehoods same “less than a time remaining” for hours on end.
(Image borrowed from TheDailyWTF, where I had lots of choices)
Melted From: Wired: Compiler
Tags: choices, five minutes, interface element, programmers, progress bar, progress bars, raising the bar, user interface
Fri, 20th June 2008

