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by fizzynut
1696 days ago
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Cheap tricks can create a much more responsive experience. Whenever a user interactable element will be ready in <~100ms, you can display it as ready now, because it is faster than the reaction speed of a human, which makes all interactions with the software faster, smoother and more responsive than if I used a loading indicator. It's a free win. Whenever you know in advance you need to display something to the user and need to load/process something that takes much longer than 100ms, you can load in the background while displaying whatever needs to be displayed and if the time spent on the screen is slower than the loading time then the next interaction will be instant (common case), if the user is faster on the screen you can still go to a loading screen, but the time it is on screen for would still be much much shorter. |
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Knowing things in advance is not a cheap trick. I’m not talking about a well structured boot. I’m talking about the far more common approach of just showing a moving mouse pointer and a few icons and “pretending” the computer is ready to use, a notion that is quickly disabused as soon as you try to get to work. Then even, you will her no way to know when it “is” actually ready.