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Users aren't being fooled here. People learn that progress bars aren't accurate, and things like the author mentioned, "when it gets to 75% it will really be do
by JeremyBanks 6y ago
Users aren't being fooled here. People learn that progress bars aren't accurate, and things like the author mentioned, "when it gets to 75% it will really be done".
- jessriedel 6y agoFirst, no, as the other comments here attest, the end result of constant lying is that nobody trusts progress bars at all; if things reliably finished at 75%, progress bars would be easy, but they don't so they aren't. Second, that people soon get used to being lied to does not make lying OK.
- gpvos 6y agoI don't think you are in disagreement.
- jessriedel 6y agoNeither of Jeremy Bank's sentences are relevant to my first comment if you try to contort their interpretation so they do not conflict with me.
- gpvos 6y agoTo me, JeremyBanks' second sentence clearly implied that users don;'t trust progress bars anymore, and your comment was unnecessary. He is also certainly implying that lying is not OK. Interpreting them otherwise seems like a strange kind of contortion to me.
- jessriedel 6y agoI think you're clearly misinterpreting, but it's not worth discussing. JeremyBanks can clarify for himself if he wants.