Chapter 1. Designing and Engineering Time
Every interaction with the computer—from performing a search for information in a database that may last a few seconds to installing an operating system that can last for hours—requires users to expend time. How an interaction is designed to expend a user’s time is a vital factor in the usability and overall perception of a product or service. A poorly-designed solution can, simply put, waste the user’s time regardless of its brilliant architecture. A well-designed user solution, on the other hand, can win user satisfaction despite annoying delays.
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It’s five minutes until lunch time and you start an installation process that is supposed to take more than an hour. Not wanting to sit in ...
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