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Nothing can make your users think the app is loading faster other than making the app actually load faster. Loading blurred pictures first, or showing a false p

• Dr_tldr 11y ago
  Pretty much all the usability testing that's ever been done would disagree with you. Do you have a good reason for feeling like your opinion is representative of broader demographics?
  • EdHominem 11y ago
    Do you have a good reason for thinking studies that clearly disagree with observed reality are actually correct? Because I've heard similar results in the past, for example for OSes that show the GUI before they've stopped loading. Supposedly done to increase the perception of loading speed, and again they were supposedly supported by real studies. (MS WinXP for one.) But considering that I've seen multiple non-power users discover the un-usability of their OS right after boot simply by trying to load something and finding the computer non-responsive, yes, I'd have to conclude that either this sort of study is 1) simply incorrect or 2) asked the wrong questions. If your goal is to trick non-users into thinking your startup time is short, you might be able to do this pretty easily. But the second time someone uses the system instead of watching a video of it, they see through it. And this isn't the abnormal case - this is essentially 100% of users in 95% of use cases. When you start an OS or an App you're waiting to do something. You notice when you can stop watching it load and actually do something. Come back when the effect works the 5th, let alone 50th time.