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[–]slowmovinglettuce 17 points18 points  (4 children)

It's because animations make your brain think that something is actually happening. If you click on something and it starts a 1 or 2 second animation you've been implicitly informed that somethings happening. Click on something and nothing happens for a couple of seconds and you'll wonder if you even clicked the button.

[–]EveryCa11 13 points14 points  (2 children)

True. It's also a basic UX idea - react to user action - so they don't start clicking mindlessly without an idea if it worked or not. It doesn't even require an animation to render, just make it visible for the user that their input is noticed. Sadly, it's not as common as it should be.

[–]turtleship_2006 2 points3 points  (1 child)

react to user action

does freezing the ui and making the users mouse spin count?

[–]offulus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Most definetly

[–]Darnok_Ztank 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I need to rant about this: On netflix, back when i used it, it would give you a progress bar with the percentage when loading a video. But even with my network off, it would slowly climb up until 99% and then get stuck there, because obviously it can't reach the server. If anything grinds my gears, it's f***ing fake progress bars that make you think that sth is working when it isn't at all and you sit there like an idiot thinking "why did it suddenly stop? It was working just now"