Having been both developer, user and helpdesk support it is amazing what people think. People like to be told that something is happening and the faster they are told the more they think it's happening.
We have many times proved that slowing down a long process to give status updates make the user think it's going faster and finishing sooner than doing it without updates. Sometime even taking twice as long ie 30 seconds or more going to over a minute by adding in updates had people asking what we had done to make it faster. A bit like a watched kettle never boils. Which reminds me of a trick that we used to do when we had visitors to one of our computer rooms. We had about seven racks of an RS232 PBX type switch with the usual status type lights on the front. When ever we had visitors we would switch the whole suite into diagnostic display mode which would run light sweeps in various patterns across all seven 6 foot racks, several hundred LEDS switching on and off. Used to impress them significantly more than the big VAX machines and several microvaxes that were doing the real work that all the RS232 devices were connecting to. They had only one or two flashing lights you see :) -- Zaragon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Zaragon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14577 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54675 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
