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Tooltips to shorten your content
At my job there is no UX expert, which can be frustrating since most of the daily discussions I have with colleagues is about user experience / interaction.
Right now there is a discussion regarding ...
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Any good resources for, or examples of, good ways to present 'new user tips'?
Launching the beta version of a new web app shortly and want to provide a small number of new user tips that will appear one at a time the first 5-10 times a user logs on. I'm looking for some best ...
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Is it a good idea to add tooltip to some text that says exactly the same?
Having tooltips on icons and images is understandable and the same goes for small pieces of links where tooltips may elaborate to the user what that particular link would do. Sometimes, however, ...
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What's the best term to refer to the pointy part of a comic-book-style balloon UI element?
In discussing balloon-ish UI elements, I've described the pointy part as 'points', 'arrows' or 'spikes', and that seems to get the idea across to many people alright... but I find myself falling ...
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Hover over a disabled item to know why it's disabled. What do you think?
How many times did you use a desktop app or an online page and you come across one or more menu items which are disabled and you have no idea why its disabled. Using help or documentation is of no ...
