An apparatus includes a display screen and a processor. The processor is configured to generate and display a graphical user interface on the display screen, receive a user request to execute a requested action on the graphical user interface, send the user request to a server, execute an intermediate action on the graphical user interface, whilst waiting for the server to create and provide instructions pertaining to the user request, receive instructions pertaining to the user request from the server, terminate execution of the intermediate action and execute the received instructions pertaining to the user request on the graphical user interface. Disclosed is also a system including a server communicably coupled to a plurality of apparatuses collaborating via respective graphical user interfaces.