Design item Metro App for Windows 8: UI is always responsive and provides visual feedback on interactions

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PERFORMANCE

 

This is one of the items that is tested in your Windows 8 App when you use the WACK.

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Your UI should always be responsive and always provide visual feedback to the user. Here are examples, of feedback interactions you should include:

  • When the user presses an item, provide visual feedback (a pressed animation)
  • When the user begins a long-running operation such as a network call or saving a file asynchronously, show a progress control or other way for user to know that the action is executing.

For more tips, check the guidelines for user interaction

Reference (HTML)

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh465370

Reference (XAML)

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh465370