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It's time we add friction to digital experiences and slow them down. Decades of obsessing about always going faster have left us in constant danger. (www.theregister.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It takes a few seconds to type a password in manually as well, but people seem to regard the time differently if they're actively doing something than if they're passively waiting for something to happen. Nontechnical users regard computers and other devices as black boxes that should respond instantly to stimuli, the way purely analog equipment does. If it doesn't, many of them treat it as broken.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yes that does make a difference. And a good UI should of course tell the user that it's doing aubergine in the background. For a password manager, preferably a message indicating unlocking and a progress bar of some sort instead of just a frozen window.