Tom HawtinThomas Hawtin's WeblogButton responsiveness- May 25, 2006 Your average usability guideline requires action response time to have an upper limit of 50-100 ms (apart from web-usability guidelines which tend to state 5,000-10,000 ms). Responses that take more than 140 ms become disjoint - the impression of cause and effect is broken. Long response make the interface feel lathargic. It becomes irritating, and perhaps you start pushing the buttons harder. One of the lunacies of most modern GUI toolkits is that mouse presses don't take effect until the...http://www.jroller.com/tackline/entry/button_responsiveness |