I'd be curious about the reference as well, because afaik there is nothing in the terminal that adds artificial delay. Most apps run in 100-150ms because anything longer begins to be noticeable to the user.
It looks like I can't use that as an example because I can't find the paper I read about it. I can't even remember when it was, and the only vague time association I have suggests that it was 15 years ago.
> One of the things they found in user testing was that when new users clicked “Create my Blog” on the last step of the setup process, they were confused at how quickly their blog was created. “That’s it? Is something wrong?” were the types of things people said. So they added an interstitial “Creating your blog…” type page that did nothing but spin a little animated gif and wait a few seconds before sending new users to the “Yay, your blog is created! page”. Users were far more satisfied with the new experience that took longer.”
Another example (in addition to the Coinstar one) is by a commenter at the bottom of the page.
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I'd be curious about the reference as well, because afaik there is nothing in the terminal that adds artificial delay. Most apps run in 100-150ms because anything longer begins to be noticeable to the user.
It looks like I can't use that as an example because I can't find the paper I read about it. I can't even remember when it was, and the only vague time association I have suggests that it was 15 years ago.
So here are some more examples: http://www.90percentofeverything.com/2010/12/16/adding-delay... . One is:
> One of the things they found in user testing was that when new users clicked “Create my Blog” on the last step of the setup process, they were confused at how quickly their blog was created. “That’s it? Is something wrong?” were the types of things people said. So they added an interstitial “Creating your blog…” type page that did nothing but spin a little animated gif and wait a few seconds before sending new users to the “Yay, your blog is created! page”. Users were far more satisfied with the new experience that took longer.”
Another example (in addition to the Coinstar one) is by a commenter at the bottom of the page.