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cryodesign · 2017-05-23 · Original thread
Some good tips and a good reminder not to overload the user with information, especially on mobile.

However, trying to give this pattern a new name feels a bit disingenuous - it comes across as self promotional (even if unintended).

This is a well established pattern already and it's known as a Wizard - guiding users, chunking information, etc -- IBM talked about this back in 2001 [0]

And they wrote a 400 page book about this called Designing Effective Wizards [1]

I see this quite often in our industry, people trying to coin a new name for something when one already exists.

Please don't.

Give credit where credit is due or at least acknowledge people who researched it before.

/rant over

[0] https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/us-wizard/

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Effective-Wizards-IBM-books...

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