Re:Computer latency: 1977-2017
by Veedrac on Sunday December 24, 2017 @11:43PM
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~0.1s is the limit after which there is a distinct delay between action and response. This is not the same as the point at which things feel instantaneous.
> 0.1 second: Limit for users feeling that they are directly manipulating objects in the UI. For example, this is the limit from the time the user selects a column in a table until that column should highlight or otherwise give feedback that it's selected. Ideally, this would also be the response time for sorting the column — if so, users would feel that they are sorting the table. (As opposed to feeling that they are ordering the computer to do the sorting for them.)
Re:Computer latency: 1977-2017
by gok on Monday December 25, 2017 @02:04AM
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I’m not denying that. I’m saying that anything over 100ms is meaningfully deficient, and anything under that is nice to have but not distractingly bad.
> 0.1 second: Limit for users feeling that they are directly manipulating objects in the UI. For example, this is the limit from the time the user selects a column in a table until that column should highlight or otherwise give feedback that it's selected. Ideally, this would also be the response time for sorting the column — if so, users would feel that they are sorting the table. (As opposed to feeling that they are ordering the computer to do the sorting for them.)
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/powers-of-10-time-scales-in...