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Please do use this. Tooltip tutorials are a user experience heaven. If you don't feel the urge to add this to your site - think again. User interfaces are gett
by zupa-hu 14y ago
Please do use this. Tooltip tutorials are a user experience heaven. If you don't feel the urge to add this to your site - think again.
User interfaces are getting better - which means if your UI is good, it is different, thus it won't be intuitive to those who are trained to not expect it.
Often one has to choose to design a UI for the daily use vs. first a time usage. Better to put the clatter in the tooltips than to let them always be in your users way.
- dlf 14y agoTo be fair, isn't one of the things that sets apart a UI as "good" that it is, in fact, intuitive?
- dorkrawk 14y agoIt's not quite that simple. A good interface for a power user is not a good interface for a first time user. Many developers think VIM has a good interface for what they want to do but I wouldn't call it intuitive for a first time user with no prior knowledge of its interface paradigm. Tools to bridge the gap between first use and power use are worth using.
- pooriaazimi 14y agoI agree. But sometimes, you just can't make it easy enough for everybody. iPhoto for iPad is probably the nicest iPad app I've ever seen, and it has a tooltipy help system because it's humanely impossible to create something as powerful as iPhoto for iPad that's also intuitive. Sometimes you need a gentle nudge in the right direction. Now, I personally dislike Metro very, very much. But the "charms" idea seems nice. How you tell the user (that's just started using Win8) how to activate a charm without a tooltip (or something similar)? Tell the user once (or twice), and only after that it becomes intuitive.