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0 pointsbsder13d ago0 comments

> Instant transitions are only good in theory.

For a professional tool, animations are anathema. They interfere with muscle memory.

Someone who uses a program continuously can be clicking or typing before a dialog box or button is even in the right position.

My wife drives me MAD with this. She has already clicked the cancel button on a popup before I can even read the first word in the dialog box. This is fine when she is working as the dialog box is just a dumbass notification from some idiot UI designer. This is NOT fine when she has asked me to help debug a problem. I have to force her hand off the mouse so that I can read the damn error message before she clicks it away.

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kccqzy9d ago

I don’t understand this. One of my colleagues drove me mad with exactly this behavior. He opened an internal tool to load some complicated data for visualization. The tool immediately had a popup that said “Loading” with a sole button labeled “Cancel” in it. He reflexively clicked “Cancel” and then complained that the internal tool did not work at all.

Hendrikto13d ago

The amount of times people asked me for help without even reading the very obvious error message is astonishing. Many people just completely switch off their brain when anything goes wrong.

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