Activity identicons v 1.99 :) (post-akademy)

[Marco Martin]

On Saturday 17 July 2010, Riccardo Iaconelli wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 July 2010 10:11:46 Ivan Čukić wrote:
> > To repeat Chani's question - do you have any idea how to make the more
> > prominent?
> 
> Tooltips appearing and suggesting to the user the new features? (with the
> button don't show this again)
> 
> I was thinking of a simple, black-ish, transparent tooltip, that appears
> when the user is starting to use a new release and goes with the mouse
> near certain hotspots. This would be done for every major feature not
> easily discoverable (ala "did you know?", but more "contextualized", since
> we take in count the mouse position and user interaction). So for example
> you go on the left-top corner, and you see a little text saying:
> 
> - Activities -
> You can create activities by clicking this button, in order to organize
> your work better. _read more_
> 
> This is just an idea that came to me looking at some mobile GUIs (or was it
> websites?), but I think that could really work in order to have the common
> user find out our best features.
> 
> What do you think?

problems with those things is that users tend to find this kind of things 
abboying pretty uickly :(
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Marco Martin