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Part of working with motion is always being cognizant of this delay. We never, ever want to make users feel like they are waiting. It's like that study that sh

Part of working with motion is always being cognizant of this delay. We never, ever want to make users feel like they are waiting. It's like that study that showed people get more annoyed at airlines for waiting for their bags so airlines started assigning baggage claims that were further away. Same time to get your bags but you were busy walking over most of the time and didn't get bored. :)

Mithaldu 12y ago
Great to hear you're aware of the issue! :D (Now write a blog post just as big about it. ;) )
nawitus 12y ago
I don't know what material design is, but if Google+ is an example, the implementation is bad. If I click on the status input box, there's a time span when I can't type characters to the input box. I need to wait some useless animation when it expands. What probably really happens is that the "fake"/unused input DOM element is replaced after the animation to a new input DOM element or something. The same bug also happens with YouTube. If I open the YouTube page and start to type characters to the search box, I'll get missing characters. For example, if I type "skateboarding dog", the end result will be something like "skarding dog" etc. Google+ offers animations that make the site more annoying to use, stuff moves and changes in size. Facebook, on the other hand, works really well. Their 'status update' input element does resize, but I can start typing instantly.
- PStamatiou 12y ago
  The current Google+ is not material design. Here's more info: http://www.google.com/design/spec/material-design/introduction.html http://www.google.com/design/spec/material-design/introducti... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8TXgCzxEnw&list=PLOU2XLYxmsIJQe6T9CKafiDm7p_LCCx6F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8TXgCzxEnw&list=PLOU2XLYxms...
ttctciyf 12y ago
Right, but if the delay in obtaining the luggage is deliberate, so that the poor travelers can absorb more glorious brand identity, then it's a crappy way to treat them, isn't it?
- PStamatiou 12y ago
  Would you rather wait 20 minutes for your food to arrive or have chips & salsa while you wait?
  - ttctciyf 12y ago
    I'd rather not wait 20 minutes if that wait is occasioned by the chefs performing a visual entertainment instead of cooking my food, would be a more pertinent analogy :)
  - vellum 12y ago
    Having chips and salsa is a better payoff than watching an animation effect.
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forgottenpass 12y ago
OK, but this baggage claim story only makes the case for animations during wait times. That wasn't exactly the impression I got from your blog post. Unrelatd to UI, giving the air traveler a distant baggage claim might shift the travel annoyance from waiting to navigating the airport? That's kind of a dick move to make someone walk farther to baggage claim just so they don't notice the baggage time. They could have just put an estimated wait clock on the carousel and solved the problem that still exists at baggage claim.

Mithaldu 12y ago

Great to hear you're aware of the issue! :D (Now write a blog post just as big about it. ;) )

nawitus 12y ago

I don't know what material design is, but if Google+ is an example, the implementation is bad. If I click on the status input box, there's a time span when I can't type characters to the input box. I need to wait some useless animation when it expands. What probably really happens is that the "fake"/unused input DOM element is replaced after the animation to a new input DOM element or something. The same bug also happens with YouTube. If I open the YouTube page and start to type characters to the search box, I'll get missing characters. For example, if I type "skateboarding dog", the end result will be something like "skarding dog" etc. Google+ offers animations that make the site more annoying to use, stuff moves and changes in size. Facebook, on the other hand, works really well. Their 'status update' input element does resize, but I can start typing instantly.

PStamatiou 12y ago
The current Google+ is not material design. Here's more info: http://www.google.com/design/spec/material-design/introduction.html http://www.google.com/design/spec/material-design/introducti... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8TXgCzxEnw&list=PLOU2XLYxmsIJQe6T9CKafiDm7p_LCCx6F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8TXgCzxEnw&list=PLOU2XLYxms...

ttctciyf 12y ago

Right, but if the delay in obtaining the luggage is deliberate, so that the poor travelers can absorb more glorious brand identity, then it's a crappy way to treat them, isn't it?

PStamatiou 12y ago
Would you rather wait 20 minutes for your food to arrive or have chips & salsa while you wait?
- ttctciyf 12y ago
  I'd rather not wait 20 minutes if that wait is occasioned by the chefs performing a visual entertainment instead of cooking my food, would be a more pertinent analogy :)
- vellum 12y ago
  Having chips and salsa is a better payoff than watching an animation effect.
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forgottenpass 12y ago

OK, but this baggage claim story only makes the case for animations during wait times. That wasn't exactly the impression I got from your blog post. Unrelatd to UI, giving the air traveler a distant baggage claim might shift the travel annoyance from waiting to navigating the airport? That's kind of a dick move to make someone walk farther to baggage claim just so they don't notice the baggage time. They could have just put an estimated wait clock on the carousel and solved the problem that still exists at baggage claim.