Re: [IxDA] What makes an application feel fast?

On 2010-11-06, at 13:39, Simon Raess wrote: > I'm looking for any resources available on (perceived) user interface responsiveness. Any methods, studies, measures, factors, thoughts and comments are very welcome!

UX designers at Mozilla did a lot of research on this very thing with Firefox. I don't have all of the links close at hand, but here's a couple of the many blog posts that came out of this work:

http://www.johnwaynehill.com/blog/2010/06/16/perceived-speed-performace/ http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2009/08/05/sure-its-fast-but-how-does-it-handle/

Alex Faaborg's blog provides lots of interesting insights into the Firefox development process from the perspective of user experience.

Neil