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0 pointskevinventullo6mo ago0 comments

What’s funny is the jerky animation actually communicates so much more than the smooth animation.

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wrs6mo ago

Yeah, same with progress bars — especially the Windows Installer progress bar that goes backwards when it’s backing out after a failure!

Of course, progress bars based on increments have a whole other failure mode, the eternally 99% progress bar…

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0 pointskevinventullo6mo ago0 comments

What’s funny is the jerky animation actually communicates so much more than the smooth animation.

wrs6mo ago

Yeah, same with progress bars — especially the Windows Installer progress bar that goes backwards when it’s backing out after a failure!

Of course, progress bars based on increments have a whole other failure mode, the eternally 99% progress bar…

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse