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Re:Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower tha... by epistasis on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @10:12AM (#15643946)
That's a huge frustration with current web pages for me, and for iOS. Animations that stall interaction rather then enable it do exactly the opposite funtction. And if you're ever in a situation where interactions get chained from user requests, like the bug in the iOS calculator, you're gone way off the path on your UI
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Re:Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower tha... by acdha on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @12:13PM (#15645230)
Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> Reduce Motion on iOS is a really nice way to improve the subjective interface speed.
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Re:Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower tha... by epistasis on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @12:54PM (#15645712)
That had zero effect on the interaction-halting animations for me.

I'm not opposed to animation, I'm opposed to animation that makes the phone unresponsive and not listen to input, or delays the display of information for more than 200-300ms. Unfortunately the "Reduce Motion" only seems to be for some very minor things.

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