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- On my PCs and phone, little attention seems to have been given by the GUI developers to keeping clickable/tapable content in the same place as the screen updates. This often leads to me clicking/tapping on the wrong thing as it updates as I try to select what was just there.
This has been a big annoyance for me for a while. I do some GUI development and programming for some of the Manufacturing Test Fixture programs that I develop, so I'm sensitive to making GUIs intuitive and easy to use.
But with many PC and phone interfaces (mainly browser-based), the program that is updating and managing the GUI seems to give little consideration to the interaction of the user with the GUI. So many times I'm about to click on a selection, and at the last nanosecond the GUI updates and moves the target selection down or someplace else and replaces it with something else. This usually results in me clicking/tapping on the wrong selection, sometimes to a catastrophic result ("delete all" or similar).
I thought about filing a patent application for a built-in timer for GUI updates and taps/clicks, but you would think somebody would have done that already. Am I the only one who is super-annoyed by this GUI misbehavior?
But with many PC and phone interfaces (mainly browser-based), the program that is updating and managing the GUI seems to give little consideration to the interaction of the user with the GUI. So many times I'm about to click on a selection, and at the last nanosecond the GUI updates and moves the target selection down or someplace else and replaces it with something else. This usually results in me clicking/tapping on the wrong selection, sometimes to a catastrophic result ("delete all" or similar).
I thought about filing a patent application for a built-in timer for GUI updates and taps/clicks, but you would think somebody would have done that already. Am I the only one who is super-annoyed by this GUI misbehavior?