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• Inventory Control Response Times – DataWorks 3 / 6 Design Axiom

  Way back in 2006 we did a major re-factoring of our inventory control application – NeXT®.  We took out stop watches and started charting all of our form’s behaviors. We  focused on our Daily Maintenance and Transactional forms (read about those here).

  DataWorks’ 3/6 Design Axiom:

  • Any user action (click of a button, etc) that takes over 3 seconds to complete must be accompanied with a thermometer, hour glass or status message that indicates the system is still working.
  • The goal of all forms is that they display usable information to the end user within 3 seconds of a menu click.
  • The maximum allowed time that a form can take to display is 6 seconds.
  • A form that takes over 6 seconds to display, must be redesigned with less data or fewer controls until it takes 6 or less seconds to load.

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  2010.01.26 / no responses / Category: Uncategorized

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