> When someone does figure out the pattern, they waste a couple minutes moving their mouse very slowly across every square inch of the screen in search of more.

> When someone does figure out the pattern, they waste a couple minutes moving their mouse very slowly across every square inch of the screen in search of more. Ableton Live (a DAW) has an interesting solution for this: There are no tool-tips at all. Instead, you can open an 'info' box in the corner of the window/screen that instantly shows a quick explainer and relevant keyboard shortcuts for the control you're currently pointing at (and its name), without obscuring anything. It's not perfect (e.g. there's no way to hyperlink to more information in the on-line help), but on top of being easily discoverable and put-away-able, it can do another nifty thing: For controls that are user-configurable, the 'info' text is user-editable as well. It's like source code comments, but for the GUI. E.g. instead of "Macro 3", you can have: "Glitches the wubs. Don't forget to wax the sidechain!"