On 5 Jun 2008, at 01:36, Long Gao wrote: > Except all the points against tooltips, there are value of tooltips, > isn't it? Or there won't be a bug report requesting it from four > years ago, will it? > I've no doubt that some users would find tooltips useful some of the time, and there are probably even more users who think they would.
However, most UI designers also know from experience that what users think they want, and what they actually need, aren't always the same thing :) [1] So as always, it's important to enumerate the tasks, their frequency, the context in which they will be performed and by whom, before deciding what the best solution might be. Cheeri, Calum. [1] Similarly, what users say they do with your application, and what they actually do, aren't always the same thing-- so the only reliable way to find out is to observe them (whilst trying to minimise observer effects, like the Hawthorne Effect...) -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
