A trend that I find encouraging is the way some programs and websites start up with a tour or a tutorial to get new users oriented. It's even better if the user can get back to that whenever they want -- GNU Emacs is one of my favorite examples of this, and it's had that feature for at least the last 30-odd years, along with an online hypertext manual that predates the web by over a decade. You'd think more designers would take the hint. It's also infinitely customizable and extensible; that's harder to get right.
Dreamwidth also gets a lot of things right -- you can always append ?style=mine to any page's URL and get it displayed in a format you're familiar with.
I don't remember which website I saw it on, but it has the word "text" in rather pale outline letters up in the upper right-hand corner. It doesn't clutter the interface much, but any text-oriented user is going to spot it immediately. Not sure what the appropriate icon for getting back to a visual interface would be.
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dancing_serpent
Re: Thoughts
Date: 2017-06-22 02:06 pm (UTC)Dreamwidth also gets a lot of things right -- you can always append ?style=mine to any page's URL and get it displayed in a format you're familiar with.
I don't remember which website I saw it on, but it has the word "text" in rather pale outline letters up in the upper right-hand corner. It doesn't clutter the interface much, but any text-oriented user is going to spot it immediately. Not sure what the appropriate icon for getting back to a visual interface would be.