Comments on: Immediate feedback for interaction with the Network News items. http://devblog.xing.com/mobile/immediate-feedback-for-interaction-with-the-network-news-items/ Programming tidbits and other insights from the developers at XING.com Wed, 16 May 2012 13:16:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Norbert Schuler http://devblog.xing.com/mobile/immediate-feedback-for-interaction-with-the-network-news-items/comment-page-1/#comment-1510 Norbert Schuler Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:21:40 +0000 http://devblog.xing.com/?p=1437#comment-1510 Hi! Nice post. I wonder if you shouldn't inform the user, if you have to undo all the changes e.g. my iOS mail client notifies me in a pop up if the movement of a mail to another folder failed (some seconds after I moved the mail). I guess the user would except that too. Also isn't there a test to check if the mobile has some network connection at all? You should instantly inform a user that some network call does not work if you can see it (I saw something like that in the Facebook app :-)). Regards, Norbert P.S.: Wasn't I able to log into this website with my XING account some time ago? Hi!

Nice post. I wonder if you shouldn’t inform the user, if you have to undo all the changes e.g. my iOS mail client notifies me in a pop up if the movement of a mail to another folder failed (some seconds after I moved the mail). I guess the user would except that too. Also isn’t there a test to check if the mobile has some network connection at all? You should instantly inform a user that some network call does not work if you can see it (I saw something like that in the Facebook app :-)).

Regards, Norbert

P.S.: Wasn’t I able to log into this website with my XING account some time ago?

]]> By: David Montiel http://devblog.xing.com/mobile/immediate-feedback-for-interaction-with-the-network-news-items/comment-page-1/#comment-1509 David Montiel Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:51:36 +0000 http://devblog.xing.com/?p=1437#comment-1509 Correct, we actually do this as well, of course, but it is done mostly when we load a page that is presently empty and the user is seeing nothing at all, therefore all the attention is on the spinning wheel at the top right corner. But the waiting time for something like this is so small that the spinner would not even be very noticeable, and since there is lots of content at the moment, the user's attention is somewhere else. Correct, we actually do this as well, of course, but it is done mostly when we load a page that is presently empty and the user is seeing nothing at all, therefore all the attention is on the spinning wheel at the top right corner. But the waiting time for something like this is so small that the spinner would not even be very noticeable, and since there is lots of content at the moment, the user’s attention is somewhere else.

]]> By: Chris http://devblog.xing.com/mobile/immediate-feedback-for-interaction-with-the-network-news-items/comment-page-1/#comment-1508 Chris Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:46:23 +0000 http://devblog.xing.com/?p=1437#comment-1508 What I know from many web sites (not so often for apps, though) is a symbol that indicates something is happening right now - e.g. a sinning wheel. The user gets the immediate feedback that the action was triggered but the state changes not before the API sends a positive answer. What I know from many web sites (not so often for apps, though) is a symbol that indicates something is happening right now – e.g. a sinning wheel.
The user gets the immediate feedback that the action was triggered but the state changes not before the API sends a positive answer.

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