Questions tagged [context-sensitive-help]
Help dialogues that take the current state of an application interface into account.
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Best practices for online help
we're currently developing a fairly complex web portal. To improve the user experience, we want to provide a context-sensitive online help system that can aid the user in understanding certain aspects ...
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Do people actually use tooltips?
I know I use them, and my peers use them, but how much does the average user actually use tooltips to figure out functionality?
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Why is embedded help not popular?
I'm wondering why modern help systems are more passive than active? For example, each good guide through something look like this:
So why we don't see this directly on website (service provider), but ...
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Context sensitive help - making sure they use it
I want to add a context-sensitive help to my interface. It's a complex of numerous screens and data fields, intended for the trained enterprise user.
Following this question and this one about why ...
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Context sensitive help for wordy user preferences
Current UI
Here is a poorly designed panel on a preferences dialog for the open source audio editor 'Audacity'. I'd like to do something about it.
How it got that way
In the past the text beside ...
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What's a good way to provide help for grid columns in a tight space?
In my app, I've got grids like the following:
It is not apparent, but if you click on the column header in the first three columns, it sorts by that column, but if you do this on the other columns (...