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Spinners. The problem with many applications that store state across the network is that they do not have a spinner. Far too often I tap or click something and
by hawski 4y ago
Spinners. The problem with many applications that store state across the network is that they do not have a spinner. Far too often I tap or click something and there is no indication whatsoever that something is happening, that my action was registered. Sometimes with modern styling I don't even know if the thing I tapped was active. I always think then that the developer did not perceive it would be possible to not have an immediate connection to the mother-ship. I don't even live in a place with bad mobile or home Internet. I have 4G network all the time, 1Gb fiber at home and the same thing happens over and over.
Spinners even in local context are often necessary. We just want to see them less, but I think that for an interactive application there must be an indication that the app is responding to what I do. In local context I could have a slow disk or even a network connected storage. Also spinners that spin for 30 seconds giving no indication of why am I waiting or what for make me sad.