UI Progress Indicators
Comments discuss the use, effectiveness, and shortcomings of progress bars, spinners, and other loading indicators in user interfaces, often suggesting improvements for better user feedback during processing or loading tasks.
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honestly even having a progress bar on the bottom right of the status bar would help - then at least people know it's doing something
I think it would help to have a counter or progress bar while loading.
I hope a progress bar would be too slowly moving to be of any use!
Sorry to disappoint you, but historically a majority of progress bars in UI have shown either fake progress or a huge jump between low and high % of completion.
Ok that worked, but you really need to provide some progress/change indicator. It happens so fast that I can't even tell if anything happened!
Yeah, hopefully now they don't have a progress bar that consumes most of the running time :)
Loading spinner going for a long time without any context for progress was rough for me on the UX side. Seems like an interesting idea!
Except it looks like a progress bar that isn't actually indicating progress ... that seems off to me.
Useful tool. While waiting for results, a progress bar would definitely be more useful in terms of feedback than the spinning logo.
It's just moving, it gives no actual indication of progress.