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Re:Why some apps use fake progress bars (2017) by jbarciauskas on Friday February 02, 2018 @05:13PM (#16294615)
Our brains are funny things and there are lots of ways to hack them to make the world a more enjoyable place.

A related idea: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1244-defining-the-problem-of-...

I would put these solutions into the same category: accommodating the way the brain works to create an overall more pleasant experience.

You may choose to call it deception, but you probably don't want to live in the world where no one does anything along these lines.

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Re:Why some apps use fake progress bars (2017) by tomc1985 on Friday February 02, 2018 @05:19PM (#16294663)
> overall more pleasant experience

It is far more pleasing to understand what is going on and be able to measure its progress then to be shown a series of arbitrary shapes and symbols that happen to push one's happy buttons.

Stop pandering to your users' mercurial, unpredictable, and manipulable feelings, and start using your software to teach their brains how it all works.

Plus, then I don't finish the interaction with, "well, what else have they deceived me on?"

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Re:Why some apps use fake progress bars (2017) by nasso on Friday February 02, 2018 @05:21PM (#16294674)
Maybe for you but i dont think that is true for a majority of the population.
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