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Alice: How long is forever? White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second. –Lewis Carroll, “Alice in Wonderland”

CHOOSE THE RIGHT TIME A D0 A B B B D1 D2

WEB TIME LINE 0.2s 1s 5s Instant (0,1-0,2s) Immediate (0,5-1s) User Flow (2-5s) Attention Span (7-10s) 10s

PLATFORM SUCCESS MODEL 1. loading 1000ms 2. finger down 4. finger up max: 100ms idle/cleanup in 50ms chunks Immediate (0,5-1s) Instant (0,1-0,2s) http://goo.gl/GlxjdN

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WEBER-FECHNER LAW “The just-noticeable difference between two stimuli is proportional to the magnitude of the stimuli”

WEBER-FECHNER LAW JND

WEBER-FECHNER LAW jnd Photo: http://goo.gl/jQnZlP D jnd = k% of D

20% RULE jnd Photo: http://goo.gl/jQnZlP D < 30s jnd = 20% of D

20% RULE Photo: http://goo.gl/jQnZlP -20% 8s +20% 10s 12s jnd = 20% of RULE D

20% RULE NOTICEABLE = = ! MEANINGFUL

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NEUTRALISATION

≈5s

≈2s

NEUTRALISATION Geometric bisection √5×2 +20% rule 5s 2s 2.4s 3.2s

≈2s

≈3.2s

OBJECTIVE TIME SUBJECTIVE TIME

PERCEPTION OBJECTIVE TIME TOLERANCE

Operational Management Perception Management TIME MANAGEMENT Tolerance Management

Operational Management OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT real time

Operational Management “My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.” –Lewis Carroll, “Alice in Wonderland”

Operational Management FRONT END HTML CSS Images Javascript Minification & Concatination Fewer HTTP requests No CDN Sprites Responsive sizes CDN Inline top-screen CSS DNS prefetching … … Lo-Fi background JPG images … Delay blocking request (onLoad) WebWorkers AJAXify navigation … you-name-it

BACK END Operational Management CDN Caching Faster * mod_deflate/mod_gzip HTTP2/SPDY

“If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.” –Lewis Carroll, “Alice in Wonderland”

Operational Management LIMITATIONS Technical limitations Financial/time costs Users usually don’t care about your objective time

Operational Management LIMITATIONS Users don’t care

“Performance is not just milliseconds, frames and megabytes. It’s also how these milliseconds, frames and megabytes translate to how the user perceives the application” – Ilya Grigorik, Web Performance Engineer, Google

Operational Management Perception Management TIME MANAGEMENT Tolerance Management

Perception Management PERCEPTION MANAGEMENT psychological time

Perception Management “…time persists merely as a consequence of the events taking place in it [space]” –Martin Heidegger, German philosopher http://goo.gl/9wXHL9

Perception Management EVENT MARKERS EVENT1 EVENT2 EVENT3

Perception Management EVENT MARKERS start end|start end EVENT1 start inner Event Marker Event Marker end Event Marker

Perception Management PREEMPTIVE START

Perception Management PREEMPTIVE START

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  • – things user does not need to know about

Perception Management EARLY COMPLETION ma gic *

  • – things user does not need to know about

Perception Management LIMITATIONS When process is really long and there is no chance to make user think differently

Operational Management Perception Management TIME MANAGEMENT Tolerance Management

Tolerance Management TOLERANCE MANAGEMENT valued time

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Tolerance Management “If you can not change the situation, change the attitude” –basic principle of psychology

Tolerance Management UNCERTAINTY

Tolerance Management Determinate Dynamic Static Provides periodic current status during mid-process Does not provide any info during mid-process Class A Class C Your porn will be downloaded in less than 1 second. PLEASE wait Projects completion by work units or time Download file blah-blah.mov (25GB)? Cancel Download Class D Indeterminate Doesn’t project completion Class B Files scanned: 1250 Viruses found: 55 “Designing and Engineering Time”, Steven C.Seow. © 2008 Pearson Education Inc.

PROGRESS INDICATORS FOR WEB 0 2s 5s Class D 10s Class A

Tolerance Management TIME ANCHORS MATRIX 1 2 3 5 10 15 10 20 30

Tolerance Management http://goo.gl/tn8TiG

Tolerance Management PURPOSE & VALUE

Tolerance Management

Tolerance Management WORTH THE WAIT

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Tolerance Management LIMITATIONS The sky is the limit?

SUMMARY Deliver objectively fast; Operation If not possible to deliver fast, make user think it is fast; Perception If it is really long process, make user want to wait. Tolerance

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