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Please. No animations. Just provide a tooltip suggests it can be dragged and clear it on drag. Or something subtle like that.


Some people like animations. Some people like tooltips. Some people like figuring out the UI without instruction.

Different people prefer different things and there is no objective right answer.


> there is no objective right answer.

If we're talking about UI/UX then there kinda is.

It's the UI that the largest proportion of your target audience would find intuitive if they tried it.

So it's not the lack of an objective answer that's the problem, it's the difficulty of finding a proxy for your target audience and a testing process you can afford.

Sometimes the proxy is "you" and the testing is "your experience and intuition" and sometimes the proxy is a statistically significant number of formal user tests.


tooltips don't really work on touch interfaces




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