Locksmith gets less tips and more price complaints for being faster

Re:Locksmith gets less tips and more price complaints for be... by noblethrasher on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @03:25AM (#2007461)

I remember reading somewhere that one of the online tax preparation applications (Turbo Tax I think) actually has a superfluous "progress page" so that people will value/trust the results more.

EDIT: Found the source, http://businessofsoftware.org/video_09_dnorman.aspx

at 52:30

Don Norman discussing delays they put in some H&R block tax preparation software for the emotional benefit of the users.

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Re:Locksmith gets less tips and more price complaints for be... by lionheart on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @06:37PM (#2010364)

I know how they feel. I have to do this for my software all the time.

Most of my products are "wizards" that generate code for advanced functions that my customers can then add into their websites.

Even though the generation process for most of them actually is very complex it's still nothing that the server can't perform in 10 ms. But people don't like that. So I always put in a spinning progress bar for 5-10 seconds and then they're happy.

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