[IxDA Discuss] the appearance of change

[Jeff White]

Evil guy who thinks progress bars are bad!!!! Evil!

Just kidding. Yes, I agree they are good even if they are "fudged".
Communicating system status is a pretty basic design principle, and
it's highly valuable.

As for the OT conversation, perhaps I misunderstood a bit of it. But
the shoe example makes no sense to me. They aren't doing that to
create the perception that *something* is being done. They did it
because people have attempted to smuggle bombs in through their shoes.
Ok, so take 'em off and put them through the scanner thing. Fine with
me. It's not like they said "Oh, someone hijacked a plane? Ok, we'll
make people take their shoes off to create the perception that
something is being done, even though shoes have nothing to do with any
real threat. That should be good enough!" The shoe bomb is a real
threat, it's not an illusion.

Again, maybe I missed the point or just misunderstood the example.
Good discussion though.

Jeff

On Jan 2, 2008 10:13 AM, Michael Tuminello <mt at motiontek.com> wrote:
> BTW, the progress bar just popped into my head as an applicable
> example.  I don't want to be known as the guy who thinks progress
> bars are bad.   I don't.
>
> MT