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Tooltips seem to have gone out of style in this touch-first world. Good UIs still use tooltips, you just have to click or drag when in touch mode. There's als
by o11c 3y ago
Tooltips seem to have gone out of style in this touch-first world.
Good UIs still use tooltips, you just have to click or drag when in touch mode.
There's also the awkward problem of most native tooltips being plain-text-only, when text is not actually sufficient for every problem (such as international text). And emulated "tooltip" widgets are slow, buggy, etc.
- saratogacx 3y agoFrom what I've noticed, the touch-friendly replacement for tooltips, for elements like form entry, is the info icon (the circle with the i in it). I actually find this to be even more useful than the tooltip (when space allows) because I know there is more context I can get at a glance.