A good helptips is none helptips. Cheers, Jarod
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 1:31 AM, Mark Pawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been asked to come up with an intuitive help method for tooltips > on a very complex dialog. I immediately thought of a question mark which > the customer clicks on and then drags over the interface, but that idea > has been nixed. Our competitors tend to put question marks next to every > main control which I have argued makes an already complex dialog look > far too busy and also sends a message that says " look out this is > confusing". That is my own personal opinion backed up by only common > sense, so if I am wrong please someone correct me. > Our challenge is a standard one line tooltip will not be enough to > describe the intent of the control(s). At the same time they do not want > to fall back on separate context sensitive help windows opening. They > want the customer to stay in the interface where they are working and > get helpful information as required. > Any good examples out there on the web that I can look at. > Thanks > > Mark > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- http://designforuse.blogspot.com/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
