@contolini because we have a bunch of people unfamiliar with nodeschool workshops, I was thinking something closer to our Bocoup training, but where the problems and answers are all in a repo that's easily cloned and branches checked out.
Perceived performance is a really interesting topic:
[Polar, an app,] introduced a short spinner to show users when polls were loading. Feedback immediately started pouring in about how loading new polls felt so much slower than before, despite the fact that it was actually much faster. Polar quickly released a patch removing the spinner, and people were impressed by how much faster polls loaded.
As designers and developers, our goal shouldn’t just be to create the fastest site mathematically; it should also be to create the fastest site experientially.
George has a great baggage claim story.
You can read the story here. Definitely related to perceived performance.
It's a haphazard mess, but John Kricfalusi's blog (the creator of Ren & Stimpy) is a treasure trove of animation advice if you're willing to wade through it.
This post on background art is one of my favorites.
Transitional Interfaces by Pasquale D’Silva was a huge influence on Jen and I when we were working on eRegs animations.
We should try and do this as a nodeschool workshop. Most of their tutorials are on the command line but there are a couple, like shader-school and WebGL, that run in the browser. Relevant: https://github.com/lakenen/browser-workshopper