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Optimizations? Never heard of it (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] IDatedSuccubi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is what I and many other programmers have done (not the removal, but fake delays), because it improves user experience, actually:

1.When the user clicks a button that should take long in their mind (like uncompressing a zip file etc) but is actually fast, it might seem like something is wrong and it didn't work

2.When the user transitions between layouts of the application, if it loads everything too fast it will look too abrupt, a fake delay will be made here if a transition animation is not possible/doesn't fit

[–] alokir@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I was working on an enterprise web application, there was a legacy system that everyone hated and we replaced it with a more modern one.

We got a ticket from our PO to introduce a 30 sec delay to one of our buttons. It sounded insane, but he explained that L1 support got too many calls and emails where users thought said button was broken.

It wasn't, they were just used to having to wait up to 5 minutes for it to finish doing its thing, so they didn't notice when it did it instantly.

We gradually removed that delay, 10 seconds each month, and our users were very happy.

[–] lauha@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

First reason is just poor UI design. I'm sure there are billion ways to indicate a successful action even if it was immediate.

[–] pineapple_santa@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Imagine asking a person a math question like what 2 times 3 times 7 is (without you knowing the answer). If that person immediately goes like „42“ you‘ll most likely think that it’s a joke response and the person doesn’t take your question seriously. If however that person takes a few seconds to think you are much more likely to believe the answer.