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> Tangentially, the correct way to present nifty tips like this is NOT in a "tour of new features" wizard spammed at the user when they're opening your app to t
by stetrain 3y ago
> Tangentially, the correct way to present nifty tips like this is NOT in a "tour of new features" wizard spammed at the user when they're opening your app to try and get something important done.
My favorite is when this happens in a tool I’ve used for years just because I have a new account flag, like signing into Slack at a new job.
Bonus points if it’s completely unskippable or keeps happening as you touch each part of the app during use.
- Arrath 3y agoAh my arch-nemesis, the unskippable, rigidly timed "How to use the controls" tutorial that requires me to click ok to advance through every control, at the beginning of every single one of the several dozen mandatory, annual training modules that corporate requires I sit through.