Timeline for Why are applications so silent?
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| Sep 27, 2016 at 8:08 | comment | added | Pking | I'd be annoyed if the sound was loud and repetitive, and used too often, but would you say there are any legitimate uses for sound in applications? You seem to argue that because some sounds are annoying, we shouldn't bother with sound at all. | |
| Sep 27, 2016 at 2:31 | comment | added | whatsisname | I don't want a sound to tell me some command registered, that's a base level of capability I expect no matter what. Keyboard wiring was solved eons ago. Additionally, for many of us, when we are working, we are clicking on things or issuing keyboard commands on the order of one per second or faster. Beeps and boops for that is one thing for movies, but having silence your application will fill its users with rage, or fill your transaction history with chargebacks. | |
| Sep 26, 2016 at 20:21 | comment | added | DasBeasto | @Pking Doesn't get annoying to you, but if I'm trying to relax and someone near me is tap, tap, tapping away because they didn't turn their sound off before they text it gets incredibly annoying. Combine that with other beeps, boops, ding-dongs, and wooshes as messages come and go that person is lucky I don't throw their phone out the window. | |
| Sep 26, 2016 at 19:57 | comment | added | Pking | I'm not sure I buy the annoying argument fully. I realize that sound can get incredible annoying, intrusive, etc. and we all know this from the myspace pages that blasted some midi-rendition of Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On. But I've not encountered a single application that used sounds that has gotten on my nerves (not encountered many at all to be honest). If it's used sparingly and subtly, e.g. giving me a little sound when I press a keyboard command (e.g ctrl-s) letting me know the command registered, I think would help elevate the experience a bit. Those little things add up. | |
| Sep 26, 2016 at 19:38 | history | answered | saltdotac | CC BY-SA 3.0 |