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by ulrikrasmussen 422 days ago
Agreed! Whenever I use someone's phone I instantly notice how sluggish it feels with animations turned on. If I offer to turn them off they often get surprised at how much faster the phone feels after.

My pet peeve: Animations are a crutch used by designers who think they need them when in fact they should just have improved the UI so users don't get confused about the origin of a popup or window. The only justified use of animations in UIs that make sense is in scrolling, everything else is just adding latency to hide your incompetence.
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zozbot234 422 days ago
> If I offer to turn them off they often get surprised at how much faster the phone feels after.

If you're using Android there's also a "visible touches" option you can turn on in the Developer settings. It's a big UX enhancement of its own and IMHO should be promoted to the Accessibility settings (together with the options for speeding up or disabling animations).

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arcanemachiner 422 days ago
What are the benefits of enabling this feature?
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zozbot234 421 days ago
It provides a quick feedback loop when you're trying to poke at stuff on-screen with your fingers. Which is nice since it lets you know quite seamlessly (1) how good your aim is, which gets kind of critical when using fingers on a touchscreen compared to a mouse. and (2) whether a tap has even registered in the first place, which is often problematic for many users who may be wearing gloves, have drier skin that doesn't register as easily, etc. etc.
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pdntspa 422 days ago
Idunno man, I enjoy the animations. They're a big part of the 'feel' of MacOS. But they could be faster in some cases.
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ulrikrasmussen 421 days ago
Animations are pretty, I am not disputing that. And there is probably a large segment of users who like them. It is, in my opinion, a preference of form over function as animations almost always make a particular workflow slower to complete.
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