Re: Wait / Busy Cursor
Re: Wait / Busy Cursor
- Subject: Re: Wait / Busy Cursor
- From: Phillip Morelock <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 13:24:18 -0700
Actually i kinda disagree with even 10 seconds. Picture this:
Every time you do such and such, or every 5 minutes, the app "stops"
with a spinning beach ball for 10-20 seconds. I myself would get
very frustrated and would be seeking revenge on the baneful application.
I think some visual feedback (beyond the feedback that happens
when an app hangs) is necessary for anything that takes longer than
a couple of seconds, at least for an end-user application in a fancy
GUI like os x's.
just my opinion, though, whatever suits your fancy. maybe i'm just
impatient, or maybe i've been so frustrated with MSIE on os x that
maybe i'm just a little sensitive. ;)
fillup
At Thursday, 25 April 2002, you wrote:
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On Thursday, April 25, 2002, at 10:12 , Phillip Morelock wrote:
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> HCI research AFAIK would indicate that 10 seconds is about the
maximum
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> you can expect the human attention span to wait for no feedback
without
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> making them think something is seriously wrong or without their
getting
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> distracted.
>
>
Yup, I said it was arguable ;)))
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>
In practice occassional 20s would be all right (just test it yourself:
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unless you are *EXTREMELY* impatient, you'd wait a few _minutes_ till
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being angry enough to kill the thing: tested on many user animals
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here ;))). HCI of course has to play it at the safe side, with even
the
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one per mille of most impatient users satisfied ;)
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Ondra Hada
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