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What is the purpose of the "Press any button to continue" screen in games?
On some PC games, this kind of button is often relative to a controller detection, for exemple on FIFA (don't hit me) I can use some different game pads, or a keyboard.
The "press any button to ...
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What is the purpose of the "Press any button to continue" screen in games?
Assuming that game won't start from your last save-point without an explicit action then you do not need to confirm anything. Then why do you get a useless screen (unless you're seeing a demo) and you ...
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What is the purpose of the "Press any button to continue" screen in games?
confirmation of ready-ness is the main reason.
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Is it a good idea to play a [mute] video in the splash screen
It's not trivial to do; which is why it's not popular. It will become more common (then folk will start to get fed up with it and the pattern will plateau).
The size of the video can be an issue - ...
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Best approach for managing country selection in e-commerce shop-front
TL;DR: Combination of both - choose a default, and inform users what happened.
I'd suggest a notification along the top of the page, which is dismissed on user action, or when user navigates to next ...
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Shoud the user be able to manipulate a list before it is fully populated?
How frustrating would it be to manipulate something that is still changing? I think the answer is "very."
There is something called "moment of interactivity" and it can be progressive on a page. If ...
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Shoud the user be able to manipulate a list before it is fully populated?
Since this only occurs once at startup and users are accustomed to programs loading, Option 1 makes more sense. Could you have this information load with the program and extend the splash screen ...
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After how many second staying on splash screen does a user give up on using the app?
Norman-Nielsen suggest 3 orders of magnitude in responsiveness:
0.1 second: Limit for users feeling that they are directly manipulating objects in the UI. For example, this is the limit from the ...
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The ideal Splash Screen for mobile applications should be animated or static?
When in doubt, do user testing! Prepare both versions, at least in mock up, and let the users run through it multiple times. Since part of the concern is that users will be annoyed having to watch the ...
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After how many second staying on splash screen does a user give up on using the app?
I agree with @DesignerAnalyst and the reference of NN Groups article on Response time is one of the best references for this.
Apart from that, Viktor, you could utilise this time to show details ...
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After how many second staying on splash screen does a user give up on using the app?
I think the answer you are looking for is 10 seconds.
The following extract is from the article Response Times: The 3 Important Limits by Jakob Nielsen
10 seconds is about the limit for keeping ...
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splash page - put a redirect to home CTA? or rely on the site navigation?
Always have a CTA
May it be the end of a form, final page of a navigation tree, an internal 404 error page or a unavailability page like yours, it is always suggested to have a direct CTA to help the ...
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Best approach for managing country selection in e-commerce shop-front
Both your solutions are valid, but my guess you're asking this question is that you lack the insight on will they know under which currency and country they want to browse under from the beginning and/...
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What is the purpose of the "Press any button to continue" screen in games?
I would suggest a mix of both @Adriano Repetti's and @Abektes' answers.
It can be used as a way of forcing the user to pay attention to the video, but it can be used as well to know when the user is ...
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Is it a good idea to play a [mute] video in the splash screen
Nowadays more and more sites are joining the trend of having a muted video being played in their landing pages. In fact, I'm also working in a fitness app and we've recently redesigned our landing to ...
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Pros/cons of splash-screen with articifial loading delay
There is a really interesting paper from two Harvard Business School professors that coined the term "the labor illusion". The research demonstrates when/how using artificial delays in software is ...
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