Comments on: Web applications. Time for sound?

By: Brad K.

Brad K. — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:33:41 +0000

I love TuxPaint. I don’t do much with it, it is billed as a kid’s pain program – but astonishingly fun to play with, especially if you load the ‘stamps’, too.

What I really love? The penguin sounds when you exit the program. I guess some of us are just really easily amused.

I can imagine a mild, low-key sound for leaving the page, or for clicking an icon for an enlarged image. Maybe a slight ‘tsk’ sound when a page (finally) finishes loading. Or when you click ‘submit’ on a comment – something other than the old ‘retching’ sound or a toilet flushing, please. Please, not the ‘fingernails on slate’ blackboard sound, or a wolf howl or whistle. Well, maybe a whistled “Yellow Rose of Texas.” Maybe a kitten purring. Or a bowling ball sliding into the pocket for a strike. Or even a ‘thank you’ from the site author.

By: Bruno Alexandre

Bruno Alexandre — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:40:55 +0000

Maybe you right, but the email sending acts in the background and all they get is a message in the alerts “zone” … Soon they ear the sound, they sure it was send. Danish are weird (I’m Portuguese living here), so bear with me :)

By: Paul Anthony

Paul Anthony — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:25:25 +0000

Hi Bruno, thanks for your comments. Personally speaking, I think that on sending an email to a client – a sound would be slightly intrusive..

Receiving on the other hand, would be more beneficial. Especially if the user was doing something else at the time and the sound “alerted”.

By: Bruno Alexandre

Bruno Alexandre — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:09:22 +0000

I do love the idea, and soon that I read your post I just thought about adding the Apple mail send sound to my finance web app when a user sends an email to a client :)

That would be just amazing as a user experience point of view.