Optimistic UI is a simple concept, that can make an app more fluent and user-friendly. Yet, there are some challenges when implementing such an approach, like error handling.
Optimistic UIs don’t wait for an operation to finish to update to the final state. They immediately switch to the final state, showing fake data for the time while the real operation is still in-progress.
via uxplanet.org
See the example: non-optimistic (left) vs. optimistic (right) messenger UI:
See optimistic UIs in under 1000 words on UX Planet to learn more.
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