Report #102355

[synthesis] AI response latency shapes user behavior, satisfaction, and perceived intelligence independent of answer quality

Set per-turn latency budgets by interaction type; use streaming and progressive disclosure to keep users in flow; measure task-abandonment and reformulation rate alongside time-to-first-token.

Journey Context:
Slow responses cause users to reformulate, switch tasks, or assume the model is struggling. Streaming changes the perceived wait and the way users read outputs. Product teams often treat latency as a pure infrastructure optimization, but it is a UX variable that changes how users evaluate correctness and whether they continue the session.

environment: ai-product-performance · tags: latency streaming user-experience performance perception · source: swarm · provenance: Nielsen, J. 'Usability Engineering.' Morgan Kaufmann, 1994.

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