Wednesday, January 20, 2016

psychology - Will faster GUI always make one more efficient?


Are there any studies on whether one will actually get more done during a days work if delays went down i. e. from 10 ms to 5 ms for each update. My point is that if we are already working at the speed of thought, the GUI is not the bottleneck.



Answer



While not talking about response times as low as the question, there are some very interesting results from tests carried out by Google and Bing here:


http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/06/bing-and-google-agree-slow-pag.html



The bottom line is that users interact more with responsive web pages and the companies made more profit. I would think it's not too fanciful to extrapolate these and say that faster response times are nearly always desirable. Of course the gains will get increasingly small and you will run into the limitations of hardware.


It's probably the case as James Crook answered that fast UI responses act to increase comfort with the interface and so increase productivity rather than the time savings themselves allowing more to be done.


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