It Takes 16 Clicks for a Student to Open a PowerPoint on an iPad

Re:It Takes 16 Clicks for a Student to Open a PowerPoint on ... by baud9600 on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:43PM (#50490278)

Remember when we used to write specs and we said, “the screen will respond to the user in 2 seconds or less”? I often think about that when I’m waiting for a page to load or struggling through some painful login sequence that takes waaaay longer than 2s. This is the truth in an age that talks about usability and accessibility. At the end of days we will account for all those lost seconds and find we’ve spent weeks waiting for computers to respond. Literally wasted time and no compensation. Sad thought really

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Re:It Takes 16 Clicks for a Student to Open a PowerPoint on ... by chneu on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:44PM (#50490293)

Mazda used to have a bunch of guidelines for their customer facing technology. Stuff like the number of interactions to do things, responsiveness, etc.

It was really nice until ~2015 when they threw out that rulebook and went cheap.

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Re:It Takes 16 Clicks for a Student to Open a PowerPoint on ... by wpm on Saturday November 14, 2026 @03:43AM (#50495261)

I regularly have to use an interface that accepts two bytes of input from me, and spends 10 seconds sending an email before I can move on to the next two bytes. A dozen times.

They give me an up-specced M5 Pro and I use it to enter information over a gigabit fiber optic connection at 1 and 1/3rd baud.

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Re:It Takes 16 Clicks for a Student to Open a PowerPoint on ... by OroPla on Saturday November 14, 2026 @07:49AM (#50496619)

Two seconds is already atrocious. Every time I have to wait for my PC for longer than point two seconds, my time is wasted. Often, I'll end up context switching and do something else.

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