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How long actually willing to stare Loading spinner before you get annoyed? Let's break down You're 41% there. Please keep your computer on. Psychology of spinners Part 4 Building for GOOD UX Part 4 nothing... no spinner users will leave in 2-3 seconds But here's the thing show a spinner if something will take Loading time < 1 sec to load. One second is not enough time the full animation. Submit flashes on the screen and the user's something weird just happened it feel slower. So if it's under Loading time < 1 sec just show the results Okay, so what if takes longer than a second? with no text, works for about 2-5 seconds five seconds, with no text starts to feel broken. The user has no idea and the patience starts to drop very quickly. So you have some static Loading... Saving... you maybe 1 more second Now instead of static text, that changes. connecting to your account... working on it... almost there... This is where people are willing significantly longer. Because they feel that there's action happening, Type How long it works No spinner < 1 second plain spinner 2 - 5 seconds Spinner with static text 5 - 6 seconds Spinner with changing text up to 10 seconds but all of this works up to about 10s. After 10s looped animations. Just stop working. They actually start hurting patience flips, and all of a sudden more frustrated with the spinner instead of less. Past 10s different approach Progress bar Step by Step indicator: Step One This is the first step. Step Two This is the second step. Step Three This is the third step. Step Four This is the fourth step. Step Five This is the fifth step. Something else And if something fails, just show the error immediately, Try not to make them wait 20s with a loading spinner and then be like, sorry that didn't work :( about errors in the next video, to talk about those. So see you there. Follow