Timeline for Progress Bars - Why are they never "useful"?
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| Jul 7, 2021 at 10:01 | comment | added | toraritte | theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/02/… | |
| Sep 16, 2017 at 12:33 | answer | added | Sancarn | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 11, 2014 at 12:17 | answer | added | nwp | timeline score: 4 | |
| Aug 11, 2014 at 11:56 | answer | added | sampathsris | timeline score: 15 | |
| Jul 25, 2014 at 2:11 | comment | added | Michael Lai♦ | They are not useful because of the way they are designed, which is not to say that they are not useful at all and should not be placed there. The design pattern used should be an indeterminate progress bar instead of the determinate pattern. | |
| Apr 18, 2013 at 11:59 | comment | added | Anonymous | @jfrej - Hehehe. | |
| Apr 18, 2013 at 10:27 | comment | added | jfrej | xkcd.com/612 | |
| Apr 18, 2013 at 6:53 | answer | added | Dirk v B | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jan 19, 2012 at 15:32 | vote | accept | Anonymous | ||
| Sep 26, 2011 at 14:47 | comment | added | Jaco Briers | Here's a related question ux.stackexchange.com/questions/11898/… | |
| Sep 26, 2011 at 14:45 | answer | added | Jaco Briers | timeline score: 7 | |
| Sep 26, 2011 at 13:57 | comment | added | Anonymous | @JeffO You can at least give a rough idea though... which is the point. :) | |
| Sep 26, 2011 at 13:04 | comment | added | JeffO | Because just like when your boss asks you when something is going to be ready, you really don't know. | |
| Sep 26, 2011 at 5:52 | answer | added | iHaveacomputer | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 26, 2011 at 5:24 | answer | added | Dan D. | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 26, 2011 at 3:03 | comment | added | Zelda | Knowing that an install/ect process hasn't crashed is amazingly useful, and is one of the most important things a progress bar can do. if it can give an approximate ETA that's great. If it tries to be more specific than that it's probably just going to be wrong and even more frustrating as it's trying to be more accurate than is feasible, or even possible in some situations. | |
| Sep 26, 2011 at 1:58 | answer | added | Chase Seibert | timeline score: -1 | |
| Sep 26, 2011 at 1:40 | comment | added | Charles Boyung | You would get a far better answer to your actual question on Stack Overflow, since it's all in the technical details of installers. There's a UX question in here, but as it's written, it's really a technical question. | |
| Sep 25, 2011 at 22:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackUX/status/118082816100675585 | ||
| Sep 25, 2011 at 21:36 | answer | added | Jimmy Breck-McKye | timeline score: 32 | |
| Sep 25, 2011 at 21:30 | answer | added | GUI Junkie | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 25, 2011 at 20:50 | history | asked | Anonymous | CC BY-SA 3.0 |