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It's certainly a nice enough script for what it does, and I can see it being useful in some instances, but... a lot of this 'feature tour/tutorial' stuff strike
by CM30 11y ago
It's certainly a nice enough script for what it does, and I can see it being useful in some instances, but... a lot of this 'feature tour/tutorial' stuff strikes me as more of an excuse to not worry about ease of use. A good site design should be intuitive in of itself, not something that requires a guided tour to figure out.
It's a bit like the modern gaming world to be honest. In the old days, games like Super Mario Bros was designed to teach you through level design, so you'd figure out how things worked without getting a huge info box thrown in your face.
Like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH2wGpEZVgE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH2wGpEZVgE
On the other hand, games since got obsessed with tutorials detailing every minute thing about the title, leading to such over the top insanity as this 'help DVD' included with Super Mario Galaxy 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbDLuDRgnkM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbDLuDRgnkM
These tutorials on sites and in mobile apps remind me all too much of the latter. It's like 'we won't use our product to teach people in a natural way, so we'll put in a guide for complete dummies instead'.