> You can see this in the article: "Google Docs added some kind of delay such that the typing you do into the title box right after you open the doc gets overwritten". That's a developer forming a model of the system. The lay alternative is to simply learn that sometimes when you type in a box, the text appears. Other times, it doesn't. If it doesn't, you try again.
Things like this just infuriate me. The user just learns that things are unreliable. To me that's unacceptable for something to be presenting a text box to type text, let you type it, then wipe it out. Sometimes you have to wait a second after typing something before clicking search, or it searches for your incomplete query a half second before. I don't blame users for just concluding that typing is unreliable.
Things like this just infuriate me. The user just learns that things are unreliable. To me that's unacceptable for something to be presenting a text box to type text, let you type it, then wipe it out. Sometimes you have to wait a second after typing something before clicking search, or it searches for your incomplete query a half second before. I don't blame users for just concluding that typing is unreliable.