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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a>
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p>
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<h1 class="post-title">Things I Learnt The Hard Way - Be Transparent With The User</h1>
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2019-07-31
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/things-i-learnt/">#things i learnt</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/ux/">#ux</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/ui/">#ui</a>
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<p>Since we are talking about <a href="/books/things-i-learnt/log-events">logging</a>,
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another thing you must do is to be transparent with the user in your user
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interface.</p>
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<span id="continue-reading"></span>
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<p>And by "be transparent", I meant that your website/mobile app needs to point
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out to the user that the webserver is down instead of saying to the user to
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check their internet connection; your application <em>is</em> getting something from
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the webserver, so you <em>can</em> say "Oops, something wrong on our side".</p>
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<p>Another example: If you need to check a bunch of data before saying "It's
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done", add a counter to show the user that the application is doing something.
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<a href="https://joplinapp.org/">Joplin</a>, when syncing data with a webdav server,
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needs to check a bunch of files; one version would simply sit still with a
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spinner on "Syncing" and nothing more; when they added a counter, I could
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easily see that there was something going on.</p>
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<p>Those small details, for as bad as they may make you look, will win points
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with the user in the long run.</p>
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<< <a href="/books/things-i-learnt/log-events">Logs Are For Events, Not User Interface</a>
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<a href="/books/things-i-learnt/add-then-remove">One Version To Add, One Version To Remove</a> >>
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