271: Principles of Design
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The Importance of Moving Tap Targets
Don't move a tap target. No matter how obvious this is in retrospect, everybody does this and it is so bad. And the reason I say this is probably relevant to the network speed problem is because tap targets often move when things load in slower than the rest of the content. If there's something there, even if it hasn't loaded in yet, users will perceive it as a faster interaction. One way to get around this is to use placeholders. So if you have a list and you know the size of the rows of that list, just load in blank placeholders, kind of ghost images skeleton screens.
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