June 2011
Intermediate to advanced
344 pages
8h 35m
English
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Further Reading
Jakob Nielsen’s essay on response time is an invaluable source of information on this topic.[118]
Bruce Tognazzini talks about latency in his list “First Principles of Interaction Design.”[119]
Footnotes
| [114] |
Watch his presentation at http://thinkvitamin.com/web-apps/fred-wilsons-10-golden-principles-of-successful-web-apps/. |
| [115] |
For more information, read Jakob Nielsen’s essay on response time: http://www.useit.com/papers/responsetime.html. |
| [116] |
As shown here: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2010/12/best-videos-of-2010-progress-bar-illusion.html. |
| [117] |
View the article at http://www.90percentofeverything.com/2010/12/16/adding-delays-to-increase-perceived-value-does-it-work/. |
| [118] |
Read it at http://www.useit.com/papers/responsetime.html ... |
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