It's weird we don't have psychometric benchmarks to capture this trend. How many times a day do you get frustrated thinking that your mouse has broken down beca

It's weird we don't have psychometric benchmarks to capture this trend. How many times a day do you get frustrated thinking that your mouse has broken down because you clicked something and it didn't start spinning (it will be spinners of course, lots of them, and when they stop spinning you 're already fuming and banging at your screen) Can anybody point out an app that has become better at perceived feedback over time? Everything is a horrible, slow mess. And the bigger issue is: due to the choice of language/UI libraries, they are un-optimizable Incidentally, this may help explain the popularity of vim which was posted on another article. Console feedback is truly instant and, importantly, predictable. You can hit a bunch of keyboard commands on vi, and it will execute them 100% predictably even with a slow connection or high system load (of course, it was designed for that).