{"id":61,"date":"2007-01-30T14:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/2007\/01\/30\/on-ui-design\/"},"modified":"2007-01-30T14:36:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T14:36:00","slug":"on-ui-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"On UI Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>there seems to be a new trend in user interface design that i am quickly beginning to hate. it&#8217;s the replacement of the &#8216;waiting&#8217; or &#8216;loading&#8217; status bar with something that, rather than showing you how far along in the process you are, simply cycles back and forth a&#8217;la KITT&#8217;s front end grille lights.<\/p>\n<p>an example of such an image can be seen in the <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/images\/googleballs.gif\">stupid image<\/a> that google gives you while you upload a video to their service.<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s very cute, and friendly, and has the google colors in it. i&#8217;m all for that. but it gives the user absolutely zero clue how much of the video has been uploaded, how much more they have to go, nor even a guess as to how long it may take to finish.<\/p>\n<p>(to be fair, google does start giving you a peptalk after you&#8217;ve been waiting a while [&#8216;Almost Done!&#8217;]. whatever. that&#8217;s not the same, nor as &#8220;satisfying&#8221;. )<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;m starting to see the same thing crop up elsewhere (ubuntu loading screen&#8230;)<br \/>\nit&#8217;s annoying.<\/p>\n<p>i want to see something useful while waiting, at the very least, i want to see something that makes me feel like i&#8217;m getting somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>going back and forth makes me feel like i&#8217;m just wasting time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>there seems to be a new trend in user interface design that i am quickly beginning to hate. it&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[46,60],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing","category-tech","tag-rambling","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}