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In the past hover text helped to fill in the knowledge gaps when met with unfamiliar or ambiguous icons. On mobile and other touch devices, where there is no mo
by gnode 8y ago
In the past hover text helped to fill in the knowledge gaps when met with unfamiliar or ambiguous icons. On mobile and other touch devices, where there is no mouse, this breaks down. We could do with some kind of replacement for hover text on touch UIs, maybe a return of the "What's this?" question mark button Windows used to have.
- gowld 8y agoIn a well-built mobile app, long-press is "Hover"
- cpburns2009 8y agoThis is why "discoverability" sucks. I've used Android for 9 years, and I'm aware of long-pressing but I didn't know it was a substitute for mouse-hovering. Is this standard? I thought it was a substitute for right click.
- tomcatfish 8y agoIt's fairly standard, or used to be at least, with right click only happening in text areas.
- gowld 8y agoYou're right that you can't differentiate "Hover" from "context-click" on mobile. But there's not need to have two separate actions for "show info tooltip" and "context menu", since they don't interfere. Poking at something to see what it does is something most people do since toddlerhood. The only challenge is getting over your fear that irreversible operations are triggered on touchdown not touchup.