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There aren't JS games close to this yet, right?
Apart from the art, is there any reason you couldn't do this in JS/HTML5?
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This guy make fun of it in his flash games (progress bars go forward then backward) http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/ Brings lots of memories, I used to make flash games in school when I was 15. I always liked those little games. /nostalgia
Anddddd there goes my day. Winterbells.
I hope progress bars will not be an excuse to build bad slow-loading websites. I think if you are not GMail you should stay away.
I don't see any license specified. Is there a plan to license this software?
Not to denigrate the work done here, but I find it hard to see the excitment over this new UI pattern as anything more than a fad, and anticipate that will go through a highly predictable cycle of 'why you need a progress bar' through 'progress bars considered harmful' etc. etc. I suggest rereading this insightful article from last year when the Pinterest layout was flavor of the month. http://jfornear.co/the-pintere…
This bar's UI takes all of 20 minutes to make.
I worked, for a brief instance in time, at a roadside produce stand. At first I got really hung up on whether or not I could give a customer an accurate, precise answer to their question. With time, I realized that 19/20 customers didn't want the correct answer; they simply wanted a confident answer to allay their concerns. To wit: a customer asked for a tomato with qualities A, B, and C (anyone who thinks that such…
> He promptly told me that 1) I was diametrically incorrect in my choice for meeting her needs, and 2) it didn't matter, even in the least. This is why I hate talking to sales people in brick-and-mortar stores. Appearing confident rather than actually being correct is probably good for closing sales and for short-term customer happiness, but it's no good for the longer-term (ie, when you get home and realize you made…
It's nice looking, but I'd like to see some actual user testing on whether this kind of progress bar performs its most important task. "What?" I hear you asking, "Of course it does! It shows how much longer you'll have to wait." In which case I must inform you that giving the user information is not the most important function of a progress bar. The most important function of a progress bar is Time Travel. That is to…
I work for Microsoft as a UX prototyper. One of the research studies we did was something similar to this a while back. One of the findings we had was that if there was any motion at all on the screen, the user felt something was happening. It didn't have to be prominent, just noticeable. If you're doing voice input on windows phone, the vu meter is just a series of very small dancing dots. To let the users know that…
It drives me NUTS, to say the least.
Am I the only one that remembers SWF load-progress indicators and how retarded they were?
What do you mean? The SWF progress bars are one of the few that can actually be relied upon. A good example: http://armorgames.com/play/12141/kingdom-rush The Microsoft installation progress bars are the ones I remember as being ridiculous. Often going backwards, showing ridiculous install times, etc.