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Page guide. #152

Open hifall opened 7 years ago

hifall commented 7 years ago

Page guides are becoming popular these days in non-trivial web apps. A nice page guide can onboard first-time users quickly.

An example jQuery page guide is here: Joyride Page Tour. Another one: Tympanus Website Tour.

Would adding a page guide to vue-admin be considered?

Thanks.

luventa commented 7 years ago

hmm...Yup I guess we may need this for the whole vue-bulma project. Wiki is sufficient for vue-admin and I will enrich it content continuously.

hifall commented 7 years ago

Thanks for your kind reply.

I think the value of a page guide (or page tour, etc.) is that it walks the new user through the app WITHOUT requiring the user to read extra docs, so that the user can onboard really quickly. Nowadays there are maybe thousands of web apps out there, to say the least, so it's important to walk the user through as quickly as possible, in order to retain the user.

Compared to out-of-app docs, I think a page guide offers these advantages (at least): 1 in-app: the instructions are right within the app, with appropriate context info; and users can learn by examples; 2 concise: the text in page guide is often shorter than in normal docs, imposing minimal cognitive burden.

In short, a page guide can be viewed as a quick-and-light document in the SaaS (Software as a Service) age, while the traditional documents are slow and heavy.