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diff --git a/docs/html/design/patterns/help.jd b/docs/html/design/patterns/help.jd index e47bc5a..97949e2 100644 --- a/docs/html/design/patterns/help.jd +++ b/docs/html/design/patterns/help.jd @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ page.title=Help -page.tags="settings","preferences" +page.tags=settings,preferences @jd:body <p>We wish we could guarantee that if you follow every piece of advice on this website, everyone will be able to learn and use your app without a hitch. Sadly, that's not the case.</p> @@ -110,4 +110,4 @@ page.tags="settings","preferences" <p>People don't read help from start to finish. They scan around, looking for a piece of information containing the answer they need. Make it less burdensome with friendly formatting and layout choices like bold headings, bulleted and numbered lists, tables, and white space between paragraphs. And if you have a large amount of content, divide it into multiple screens to cut down on scrolling.</p> <h4>Take me straight to the answer</h4> -<p>What's better than a screen that's easy to scan? A screen that requires no scanning at all because the answer's right there. Consider having each screen in your app navigate to help that's relevant just to that screen. We call this <em>contextual help</em>, and it's the holy grail of user assistance. If you take this approach, be sure to also provide a way to get to the rest of the help content.</p>
\ No newline at end of file +<p>What's better than a screen that's easy to scan? A screen that requires no scanning at all because the answer's right there. Consider having each screen in your app navigate to help that's relevant just to that screen. We call this <em>contextual help</em>, and it's the holy grail of user assistance. If you take this approach, be sure to also provide a way to get to the rest of the help content.</p> |