OK, enough is enough. Now I have no choice but to scrap prototype in favour of jQuery.
Optimizely Open-Sources Guiders.js, a Library to Help You Guide New Users
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#22This is really great. We live in interesting times. It really gets easier to make cool stuff every day with all those tools.
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#23Does any know what other sites apart from Optimizely that use Guiders.js or have a similar interactive tour? I have been developing something very similar for my app and am very interested in seeing examples of how to best structure the walk-through.
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#24This sounds like a great idea, but I (as a webapp user) would probably say "No thanks" to the guide to take a first look at a website before trying to go through a bunch of dialog boxes. I wonder what % of users will go through a guide like this.
I believe you missed the point, this is to help users start interacting with the app, it's not on the homepage. So as someone visiting the site you would see if you like its idea or not and then, if you do, you would for instance try a demo. That's where this kicks in, it helps you with your first actions.
It might make sense for some apps to use this directly on the homepage but that would probably be the exception to the rule.
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#25I love the idea of using this for new features. Consider me sold.
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#26I built a similar library on top of YUI called Feature Cue while I was at Yahoo! Sadly it was never open sourced, got rewritten, over-engineered and (as far as I know) faded into obscurity.
I'm glad the Optimizely guys have released their version, because based on our user testing novice users really respond well to this kind of interactive product tour.
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#27Thanks for releasing this guys! I think it's going to be a huge benefit to the community
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#28This sounds like a great idea, but I (as a webapp user) would probably say "No thanks" to the guide to take a first look at a website before trying to go through a bunch of dialog boxes. I wonder what % of users will go through a guide like this.
What would help you start then? Another type of documentation? Just browsing the app?
An easy to activate the guide later on. (You probably have that - I just mean that I would like to get rid of the first popup offering a guide to see the product itself)
Its a great idea, and I'll try to use in my app.
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#29This sounds like a great idea, but I (as a webapp user) would probably say "No thanks" to the guide to take a first look at a website before trying to go through a bunch of dialog boxes. I wonder what % of users will go through a guide like this.
I believe you missed the point, this is to help users start interacting with the app, it's not on the homepage. So as someone visiting the site you would see if you like its idea or not and then, if you do, you would for instance try a demo. That's where this kicks in, it helps you with your first actions. It might make sense for some apps to use this directly on the homepage but that would probably be the exception…
You're right - I made the exception the rule. Thanks for the clarification.