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Optimistic UI; a design and application/web-oriented method to improve the user experience. Its use and operation are slightly different, but its purpose is the same as many UX improvements; not to reflect delays to the user.
We don’t want to show the user lags most of the time. Even other similar examples; skeleton screens and animations. The main goal is to eliminate the feeling of freezing and not loading on the screen.
How does it work?
As it is known, web and mobile are two separate platforms, user habits are different from each other. But the optimistic UI works similarly on both platforms. Normally when we interact with the screen, the change is sent to the server before it appears on the screen. The server returns a response and the change/interaction we made appear on the screen. What the server checks are whether this operation can be done under the current conditions. For example, your internet connection affects the server’s response. If there is no problem caused by the user, the server returns a successful response.
This is where the Optimistic UI focuses. Basically, there is an “optimistic approach”; Assuming that the server will return a successful result. When the user interacts with the screen, we show a successful result on the screen without waiting for a successful…
