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Agreed. Elsewhere I’ve seen a separate study recommending to artificially slow down the bar in the beginning in order to give it an opportunity to accelerate n
by corysama 9y ago
Agreed. Elsewhere I’ve seen a separate study recommending to artificially slow down the bar in the beginning in order to give it an opportunity to accelerate near the end.
- emodendroket 9y agoI can see how that'd be helpful, but it's essentially the opposite of what the root comment is saying.
- corysama 9y agoExactly. Honest (but poorly implemented) bars teach users not to trust them. This is because the time estimation they are attempting is inherently hard. Many kinds of computation cannot be estimated without actually performing the computation. Yet, users want progress bars anyway. Without an apparent, finite timeline, they get frustrated and angry quickly. Thus the conflict. So, the recommendation I’ve seen is 1) work very hard to get as smooth and linear if a bar as you can. And 2) fudge the numbers to give it a bit of acceleration to counter the user’s decreasing patience.
- emodendroket 9y agoYeah, I agree with you.