Tom - Not a tour suggestion, but dynamic popup windows now make the implementation of 'cue cards' a real possibility on the web. These help to make the tour a little less necessary as they tell users what they need to know when they arrive at a section of the site they have not used before. When they don't need to see the cue card for a particular page, they just close it (you need a small link to reinstate it if they wish).
Cue cards had been used very successfully in desktop applications for some time (by Inuit's Quickbooks and Quicken, for example). The advantage they have over a tour is that tours are little like reading the instructions. Unless you force people to take the tour (which is advisable only if it is very short), many will try to start using the site without it. Just a thought... Regards, William > -----Original Message----- > From: new-boun...@ixda.org [mailto:new-boun...@ixda.org] On Behalf Of > Tom Dell'Aringa > Sent: 10 August 2009 8:48 AM > To: disc...@ixda.org > Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Your favorite "tour" on a website? ... ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
