I’ll tell you what fast is.

I’ve mentioned this before.

Quest Diagnostics, their internal app used by their phlebotomists.

I honestly don’t know how this app is done, I can only say it appears to run in the tab of a browser. For all I know it’s a VB app running in an ActiveX plugin, if they still do that on Windows.

L&F looks classic Windows GUI app, it interfaces with a signature pad, scanner, and a label printer.

And this app flies. Dialogs come and go, the operator rarely waits on this UI, when she is keying in data (and they key in quite a bit), the app is waiting for the operator.

Meanwhile, if I want to refill a prescription, it fraught with beach balls, those shimmering boxes, and, of course, lots of friendly whitespace and scrolling. All to load a med name, a drugstore address, and ask 4 yes/no questions.

I look at that Quest app mouth agape, it’s so surprisingly fast for an app in this day and age.