People don't want the truth.
I recently helped a client build a PDF report generator that took about five minutes to run - and the users hated it.
So I had the application throw up a fake dialog with fake messages about "Collating data, Validating setup, Sorting, Generating" and other such... See more
Paul Xuex.comPeople don't want the truth. I recently helped a client build a PDF report generator that took about five minutes to run - and the users hated it. So I had the application throw up a fake dialog with fake messages about "Collating data, Validating setup, Sorting, Generating" and other such nonsense. The PDF generation now took eight minutes to run because I had to abuse some JS event for it to work. The users loved it.
Artificially delaying writes like form submissions can give your users more confidence that their changes went through.
It gets annoying in high-frequency apps like Linear, but it feels better than an optimistic update during occasional submissions like a contact form. https://t.co/BQ1YuwpsPq
Emil Kowalskix.com