Slower is faster

[dsrtao]

The Droid has a set of animations it uses in various transitions -- between screens of an application, between applications, when shutting down or starting up.

Since one can disable them, I did. That's what one does to preserve battery life and reduce cpu usage and so forth, right? And it must be faster.

I re-enabled them yesterday, because I didn't remember what they looked like.

What they look like is faster. I don't think it's actually faster by the wall clock, but having something to look at on the screen for a half to three-quarters of a second tricks my brain into thinking things are faster.

Weird.

Comments

[lisagw.livejournal.com]

I actually remember reading about a study about that sometime recently (sorry I can't remember where!). They study found that people overall preferred seeing a progress bar or some sort of animation while waiting for something to occur, and, in fact, rated products higher when seeing them, even when they had to wait up to a minute longer for a process to complete (they intentionally modified the duration to see how long it resulted in benefits in perception).

They human psyche is a weird, weird place.

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

That's really interesting.