Tool tips: Opinion

[Richard Hirsch <hi...@gmail.com>]

I've been experimenting with adding tool tips to the UI?

What do you think? Are there too many tool tips now? Should we restrict them
to just the dialogs?

D.

Re: Tool tips: Opinion

[Richard Hirsch <hi...@gmail.com>]

Ideally, they would be based on profile option. I'm going to change the
tooltip framework, because they don't work in IE7.

Good idea to make the delay longer.

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Ethan Jewett <es...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Whoa, they do look nice! I can't quite tell where they all are, but I
> like the general idea. I have two suggestions that I think will help
> for expert users, even if we don't make the tooltips a configurable
> option:
>
> 1. The tooltips for the main menu (under the user image on the right)
> should probably pop up to the left of the menu item and not below it.
> Currently they pop up below the menu and block other menu items,
> making it difficult to go from one menu item to another.
>
> 2. I think making the delay for the tooltip to pop up significantly
> longer would be good. Currently it is hard to avoid them, but if the
> delay were longer than expert users would rarely see them at all.
>
> Ethan
>
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Richard Hirsch <hi...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I think they are too many as well but I haven't decided where they belong
> > and where they should be deleted. Another idea would be able to turn them
> on
> > and off. They might be good for a beginner but an expert might find them
> > irritating-
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:32 PM, Anne Kathrine Petterøe
> > <yo...@gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> >> Wow they look great! :-)
> >>
> >> Personally I think there are too many, trying to think of other sites
> and
> >> where they have implemented them. I will sit down tomorrow and make a
> list
> >> of where I think tooltips are helpful. For instance by the "New" button.
> >>
> >> /Anne
> >>
> >>
> >> On 21. apr. 2010, at 10.14, Richard Hirsch wrote:
> >>
> >> > I've been experimenting with adding tool tips to the UI?
> >> >
> >> > What do you think? Are there too many tool tips now? Should we
> restrict
> >> them
> >> > to just the dialogs?
> >> >
> >> > D.
> >>
> >>
> >
>

Re: Tool tips: Opinion

[Ethan Jewett <es...@gmail.com>]

Whoa, they do look nice! I can't quite tell where they all are, but I
like the general idea. I have two suggestions that I think will help
for expert users, even if we don't make the tooltips a configurable
option:

1. The tooltips for the main menu (under the user image on the right)
should probably pop up to the left of the menu item and not below it.
Currently they pop up below the menu and block other menu items,
making it difficult to go from one menu item to another.

2. I think making the delay for the tooltip to pop up significantly
longer would be good. Currently it is hard to avoid them, but if the
delay were longer than expert users would rarely see them at all.

Ethan

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Richard Hirsch <hi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think they are too many as well but I haven't decided where they belong
> and where they should be deleted. Another idea would be able to turn them on
> and off. They might be good for a beginner but an expert might find them
> irritating-
>
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:32 PM, Anne Kathrine Petterøe
> <yo...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Wow they look great! :-)
>>
>> Personally I think there are too many, trying to think of other sites and
>> where they have implemented them. I will sit down tomorrow and make a list
>> of where I think tooltips are helpful. For instance by the "New" button.
>>
>> /Anne
>>
>>
>> On 21. apr. 2010, at 10.14, Richard Hirsch wrote:
>>
>> > I've been experimenting with adding tool tips to the UI?
>> >
>> > What do you think? Are there too many tool tips now? Should we restrict
>> them
>> > to just the dialogs?
>> >
>> > D.
>>
>>
>

Re: Tool tips: Opinion

[Richard Hirsch <hi...@gmail.com>]

I think they are too many as well but I haven't decided where they belong
and where they should be deleted. Another idea would be able to turn them on
and off. They might be good for a beginner but an expert might find them
irritating-

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:32 PM, Anne Kathrine Petterøe
<yo...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Wow they look great! :-)
>
> Personally I think there are too many, trying to think of other sites and
> where they have implemented them. I will sit down tomorrow and make a list
> of where I think tooltips are helpful. For instance by the "New" button.
>
> /Anne
>
>
> On 21. apr. 2010, at 10.14, Richard Hirsch wrote:
>
> > I've been experimenting with adding tool tips to the UI?
> >
> > What do you think? Are there too many tool tips now? Should we restrict
> them
> > to just the dialogs?
> >
> > D.
>
>

Re: Tool tips: Opinion

[Anne Kathrine Petterøe <yo...@gmail.com>]

Wow they look great! :-)

Personally I think there are too many, trying to think of other sites and where they have implemented them. I will sit down tomorrow and make a list of where I think tooltips are helpful. For instance by the "New" button. 

/Anne


On 21. apr. 2010, at 10.14, Richard Hirsch wrote:

> I've been experimenting with adding tool tips to the UI?
> 
> What do you think? Are there too many tool tips now? Should we restrict them
> to just the dialogs?
> 
> D.