James Gill / May 19, 2008
Google Mail has a Progress Indicator
Only a small post, but I just signed in to Google Mail and received a loading bar progress indicator.
No need to stop the press, but it's a whole lot more useful than the old "Loading..." message.
I hope they do the same with file attachment uploads as well. Progress indicators are a much more user friendly display of loading times than just a spinning icon, or as previously on Google Mail, writing "Loading...".
Hint: Always aim to explain to your users the progress of whatever operation they are waiting for. Progress bars are a simple and efficient way of doing so.
Chris Meller said,
May 19, 2008 at 11:52 pm ()
I noticed the same thing on my hosted domain. I would love for them to take it a step further and tell me what exactly they're loading... The more geeky data the happier I am.
JanB said,
May 24, 2008 at 8:05 pm ()
Have you every played The Sims, Chris? ;)