To me (on the internet since 92), speed is 100% a measure of a program’s quality. Intensive tasks get a pass (especially if they are pushed to a background queu

To me (on the internet since 92), speed is 100% a measure of a program’s quality. Intensive tasks get a pass (especially if they are pushed to a background queue), but IU responsiveness is definitely a measure of quality for me. Jason Fried has also written an optimized extensively for UI speed in Basecamp (a quick google shows an article from 2008). Speaking of: there has also been a lot written about Amazon’s discovery that every 100ms of latency cost them 1% of sales from people simply walking away from the “slow” site. Especially when you’re doing the same task “template” on a day to day basis, even 1 second per input adds up quickly.