Unresponsive Apps

Display and handling for applications that have stopped responding.

Designers

WilliamJonMccann

Objectives

  • Explain what is happening to the user.
  • Let the user wait, or allow them to kill the app.
  • Communicate that the system is doing the error handling, and not the app itself.
  • Ideally enable problem reporting and other diagnostics for the cause of the unresponsiveness.

Relevant Art

Windows 7

http://www.windows7hacker.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/051809-0117-whattodowhe1.png

OS X

http://www.blogography.com/photos52/LionIsShit1.jpg http://www.askdavetaylor.com/5-blog-pics/mac-force-quit-app-2.png

Android

http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/android/devguide/images/anr.png

iOS

iOS just kills apps if they stop responding for too long, without any special UI being presented; from the user's point of view, the app has just crashed due to a bug in the app.

Discussion

Tentative Design

Comments

See Also

Design/OS/UnresponsiveApps (last edited 2016-02-15 14:59:33 by AllanDay)