Progress bars, does anyone trust them?
KMorrill’s WebLog — “Our team just finished doing usability research on Visual Studio’s setup. These
studies are always fascinating to me, because even the most seemingly simple interface can completely crash and burn when presented to someone who is not biased by the effort that went into designing it.”
March 22nd, 2004 at 10:08 pm
You know what this site needs, John? To get rid of all these damn boxes around entries and make the “comments” link way more visible.
Unless you do that, people won’t comment.
March 23rd, 2004 at 3:45 am
MadMan, I need to do a lot of things! Thanks for hitting me over the head about this. I’m listening…
March 23rd, 2004 at 5:10 am
What do people think about how progress is presented for web sites or web applications. An application we reviewed this week relies very heavily on the feedback provided by the spinning globe in the browser. In a focus group we completed today with users, they commented that this was not an effective way of showing progress about how long the page is taking to load the results.
March 23rd, 2004 at 5:27 am
Hey MadMan … how is the restaurant progressing?