For other readers: this seems to be an internal google presentation made public to tell engineers to respect users' attention. I guess as a user of the website it didn't respect my attention enough to make me want to click through the whole thing. I dropped out after twenty or so clicks, having read less and less stuff after a few slides.
A call to minimize distraction and respect users’ attention (2013)
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Re: A call to minimize distraction and respect users’ attention (2013)
#12For other readers: this seems to be an internal google presentation made public to tell engineers to respect users' attention. I guess as a user of the website it didn't respect my attention enough to make me want to click through the whole thing. I dropped out after twenty or so clicks, having read less and less stuff after a few slides.
The enforced ~500ms loading time between slides is a killer. Why not preload and display them immediately?
Re: A call to minimize distraction and respect users’ attention (2013)
#13 function preload(n)
var preloader = $('');
preloader.attr("src","img/vrg_google_doc_final_vrs03-"+n+".jpg');
$('body').prepend(preloader);
}
the js in the source of the page: var imgNum = '1';
function increment(){
if(imgNum Re: A call to minimize distraction and respect users’ attention (2013)
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
The enforced ~500ms loading time between slides is a killer. Why not preload and display them immediately?
On mobile, the slides switched instantly. On Firefox Desktop it's like from hell.
Re: A call to minimize distraction and respect users’ attention (2013)
#15If memory serves, this presentation was created at Google years ago by Tristan Harris, who also had a huge part to play in The Social Dilemma.
Just look what happened to HTML: once a document system, manageable by everyone, now a more and more complex app system, dare I say WASM, etc.?
Re: A call to minimize distraction and respect users’ attention (2013)
#16For other readers: this seems to be an internal google presentation made public to tell engineers to respect users' attention. I guess as a user of the website it didn't respect my attention enough to make me want to click through the whole thing. I dropped out after twenty or so clicks, having read less and less stuff after a few slides.