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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)

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post #2

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.

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)

#12
post #2

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.

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)

#13
It's pretty easy to just force the browser to preload images a few early, which would eliminate all of the variable, ~2-500ms delay between frames. This would increase the impact of this presentation.

  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)

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post #12

Earlier 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.

Weird, how does that work? Is the mobile browser simulating the click and then noticing the next image to be loaded? Maybe the js is simple enough to prove that it's safe to do so, but wow.

Re: A call to minimize distraction and respect users’ attention (2013)

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If 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.

Ouch! Nothing changed and it got worse, dare I say. He mentions a point, I have had for years, and that is, that these 25-35 year old nerds from the Bay area define too much of out every day's culture.

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)

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post #2

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.

And it broke the back button! There seems to be no way to go back a slide if you forwarded by tapping accidentally!!!

Re: A call to minimize distraction and respect users’ attention (2013)

#17
Very nice document, speaks from my heart. But the document's format sucks! I do not even get an address in the addressbar in Vivaldi. I would love to download this as PDF or in any other presentation format, but it seems to be impossible, without going through the code.
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