One thing I’ve found effective—related to where I thought this post was going before it veered off my predicted path—is instead of adding delay, changing the st

One thing I’ve found effective—related to where I thought this post was going before it veered off my predicted path—is instead of adding delay, changing the state of the UI element that’s being interacted with immediately. This still shows work is being done, without adding any more delay than the time it takes to change state. My expectation was that this was going to be a case where users were trained to double click, and they were triggering multiple requests that way. Of course the solution to that is to prevent the second click before it happens, and visually indicate that the button was clicked. The same approach applies here. Users expect to see state change when they perform actions.