Watching a progress bar fill up slowly while waiting for stuff to download or upload is the Internet equivalent of being put on hold. It’s always tempting to hit “cancel” instead of “OK.” What if a ...

Back in October, YouTube rolled out a big redesign across its mobile apps and the web. YouTube for Android is now testing a more subtle video progress bar that isn’t red all the time. Update 12/30: ...

I just added a software upgrade to my Mac, and for the Nth time was suckered into one of my reluctant pastimes: staring at that progress bar. Yet it turns out that with a trick or two, that icon can ...

'Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die' trailer makes an apocalyptic villain of AI Why is it that whenever you have a progress bar pop up on your computer, the thing never runs at a steady speed? Why all the ...

In Material 2, this UI element was very straightforward with a “boxier, neutral style.” They now feature rounded corners, with the biggest difference being a gap between the active indicator (what has ...

Nothing’s Android 16-powered update brings a bunch of new features to its phones, including its own spin on Google’s Live ...

Jeffrey Hicks shows you how to build on the code from a previous lesson to add a progress bar to your status box. Over the last several lessons we've been exploring different techniques for display ...

What are other Spotify easter eggs? There were not so many easter eggs Spotify released, and all of them were available for a short period of time. There was a Stranger Things effect – flashlight ...

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We’ve all spent hours—maybe even days—of our lives cursing the slow crawl of the dreaded progress bar. But did you ever stop to think about how much worse it might be if the bar wasn’t there in the ...