Timing

Timing

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Productivity soars when a computer and its users interact at a pace (<400ms) that ensures that neither has to wait on the other.

Walter J. Doherty
Walter J. Doherty

Researcher at IBM Systems, famous for his paper on the human-computer interactions and the requirement for a computer response time to be 400 milliseconds or less.

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Progress bars help make wait times tolerable, regardless of their accuracy.

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Wizards of UX

This quote is hard to attribute to one particular person as it is a generally accepted piece of advice repeated by many. It is part of the collective wisdom of Wizards of UX!

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Purposefully adding a delay to a process can actually increase its perceived value and instill a sense of trust, even when the process itself actually takes much less time.

Wizards of UX
Wizards of UX

This quote is hard to attribute to one particular person as it is a generally accepted piece of advice repeated by many. It is part of the collective wisdom of Wizards of UX!

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