Jim:"The project I work on has two faked progress meters. One occurs in a login scenario and appears to be a marker of how much is done, but once it fills all the way, it empties and starts to refill."
Without seeing the design, I might conclude that wrong pattern has been applied here?? Progress bars shouldnt really refill unless its a staged install or something similar like the xp bootup screens. If the underlying functionality is not able to provide the presentation layer with a finite completion estimate then I provide an 'hourglass'. Really good example of this is the browser page loading animation. In my mind progress meters/bars and hourglasses are two completely different patterns, or as Jared calls them.. magic tricks (o; "The project I work on has two faked progress meters" Everything is fake unless you're peering in to a scope at transistors (o; . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=24028 ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
