Friday, August 29, 2014

Living: A User Experience

There is something abrupt about
A lack of loading dots prim-
ing the screen.
You, as the user, don't know if 
it will take seconds, minutes, 
months
to receive a meaningful 
response.
You don't know if things are processing, you
don't know if things have crashed.

You don't know if things are moving forward.

We live our lives through 
touchpoints.
The follow up, the interaction, any 
snippet of priming that brings the 
object or person back to the top of 
mind.
To remind you they exist.

We build experiences as seamless yet 
we live our lives abrupt.
We pause, we shift, we
jump from one thought to another --
One life stage to the next and we
don't know what to expect,
And we live in this state of 
uncomfortable uncertainty and
haven't we solved for that?

Haven't we created
loading dots?