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The UX of Loading states

Every week I help and coach fellow indie hackers by working together on their product's UX. With some of them we livestream our sessions for my YouTube live show called "UX sessions for indie devs".

On the last episode I worked with @mdgale on the checkout loading flow of his product.

Here is what we talked about:

🔸Think offline first. Think like a human.
🔸Difference between actual and perceived time
🔸 The 4 response time limits
🔸 Active and passive user modes
🔸 Examples of active and passive modes
🔸 Live user testing and feedback on Matt's Fbars app loading flow prototype
🔸 The concept of Optimistic UI
🔸 Live pair-design of the new loading flow
🔸 How can a user understand which UI elements are clickable?

👉 Check out the episode and let me know what you think! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIlDxDDcwwE

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Design and UX
on November 9, 2020
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    Watched the video a few days ago and liked it. I hope you keep doing them. 👍

    1. 2

      Yeap I will for sure! This week I ll make a user testing session and will record it to show how it looks like :)

      1. 1

        That sounds awesome! If you are looking for topics to write or talk about, I'd be really interested in the differences between in-person and remote user testing.

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          Noted :) thanks for the feedback

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