Person Pushed UI
Options to educating UIs embody onboarding walkthrough.
A tour of the core options.
Pop-ups highlighting components of the UI with snippets of textual content and / or video.
Its flaw will not be offering an opportunity for the consumer to follow what they learnt earlier than transferring to the subsequent characteristic.
After explaining a characteristic, the consumer wants to make use of that data to consolidate it.
Progressive disclosure.
Solely revealing components of a UI when required.
For instance, the modal that seems whenever you click on save as.
Revealing components of a UI primarily based on what the consumer is doing is efficient at transferring the consumer nearer to the ZPD.
Workspaces do the same factor.
The consumer selects what process they’re doing.
The UI then modifications to solely present a subset of options associated to that process.
An excessive strategy to a lowered UI is making a product that could be a less complicated model of a extra complicated one.
For instance, Photoshop and Photoshop Components.
A basic / advanced mode permits the consumer to start in a lowered UI then change to the complete UI when assured to take action.
Its flaw is as an alternative of small, incremental jumps in complexity required for efficient studying. It’s one massive leap.
Assistance on Hover.
Hovering on a characteristic shows a pop-up with academic content material.
Environment friendly, intuitive and non-obtrusive.
This teaches the consumer tips on how to use a characteristic however not what options to make use of to unravel a given downside.
To maneuver the consumer within the ZPD we additionally want downside primarily based options.
Assist menus are an issue primarily based answer.
Offering a method to ask the software program “tips on how to I …“.
Their effectiveness depends upon the standard of the search and documentation.
Documentation has a popularity of being poorly written, outdated and solely utilizing textual content and pictures.
Giving rise to energy customers creating video tutorials on YouTube and interactive experiences.