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jonahrdtoday at 8:48 PM5 repliesview on HN

Am I crazy if for something like an online purchase, I kind of expect it to take a second or two to process the payment, so I would assume something went wrong if it was 200ms?


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antonymoosetoday at 9:27 PM

I’ve definitely had in the UX side a situation where the PM/Owner types asked me to introduce a delay in the “disabled button with loading spinner” such that the user sees it for a visible amount of time because our API was too fast for their taste.

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blue_sauce_beantoday at 9:10 PM

Your comment reminded me of when Google introduced "Instant Search" in 2010. Here's an old HN thread from the launch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1672391

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JoeBOFHtoday at 8:58 PM

Same, I call it the perception of work.

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1986today at 9:28 PM

IIRC TurboTax has a bunch of loaders / spinners like this, similar idea.

bob1029today at 10:07 PM

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