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I'm not sure taking UX advice from Microsoft is advisable

Lightness Races in Orbit
– Lightness Races in Orbit

2015-07-27 23:11:42 +00:00
Commented Jul 27, 2015 at 23:11
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In a course with UX author Bruce Tognazzini he presented a hierarchy of loading indicators, e.g., less than half a second do nothing, half to a few seconds can be a spinner, more than a few seconds a progress bar, even longer something more informative/entertaining. If it's a JavaScript/web application at least it's pretty simple to have a progress animation appear after a 500ms timeout if the process hasn't completed sooner.

Marc Stober
– Marc Stober

2015-07-29 12:56:36 +00:00
Commented Jul 29, 2015 at 12:56

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