[IxDA Discuss] the appearance of change

[pauric]

Jim:"The project I work on has two faked progress meters. One occurs
in a login scenario and appears to be a marker of how much is done,
but once it fills all the way, it empties and starts to refill."

Without seeing the design, I might conclude that wrong pattern has
been applied here??

Progress bars shouldnt really refill unless its a staged install or
something similar like the xp bootup screens.

If the underlying functionality is not able to provide the
presentation layer with a finite completion estimate then I provide
an 'hourglass'.  Really good example of this is the browser page
loading animation.

In my mind progress meters/bars and hourglasses are two completely
different patterns, or as Jared calls them.. magic tricks (o;

"The project I work on has two faked progress meters"

Everything is fake unless you're peering in to a scope at
transistors (o;


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