Timeline for Why is sound sparingly used on websites?
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| May 4, 2016 at 8:13 | comment | added | Yvonne Aburrow | The first thing I do when I get a new mobile phone is to turn off the noise that pressing buttons on the keypad makes. | |
| Dec 23, 2015 at 21:06 | comment | added | Wayne Werner | My macbook button clicks when I click on it. I suspect that your mouse does, too. And if, like mine, there is a delay between when your mouse clicks and the click plays then it's really just annoying. So it's not really providing immediate feedback - and the sound doesn't really provide any information that we didn't already get from the visual nature. | |
| Dec 22, 2015 at 15:47 | comment | added | A Smith | I don't think the "option to silence" is enough. We all get too many interruptions from sites and applications that think they are important. They aren't important unless we tell them they are important. A web site should ask us if we consider it important enough to annoy our colleagues before it does so. | |
| Dec 21, 2015 at 19:53 | comment | added | TMN | Sounds attached to individual controls just remind me of the "busy box"-style of developmental toys geared towards toddlers. I honestly don't need a beep/chirp/click/chime to inform me that my input has been recognized, and if I do then the site is too slow or is otherwise deficient. The only time I can see sound being useful is for alerts for exceptional conditions (e.g., a tone when tabbing out of a required field I didn't fill in). | |
| Dec 21, 2015 at 19:50 | comment | added | Benny Skogberg | My answer doesn't say it should be avoided all together. Just that a feedback should be "improving user experience" which I think your link is all about. I can live with those click sounds on a web page, and provided that I have an option to "silence" the web page all together in a simple click. Much like Candy Crush on iOS. +1 | |
| Dec 21, 2015 at 19:30 | comment | added | Steve Cooper | I tried those clicks and it rankled. I think it's because web browsing is private; I expect to be able to sit quietly with others, all of us using laptops / phones / whatever, without disturbing each other. The first sound out of a tab says "I'm going to blurt something inappropriate to your friends." Not so with other activities like games, though. | |
| Dec 21, 2015 at 16:29 | history | answered | Amit Jain | CC BY-SA 3.0 |