Tooltips in the User Interface

Summary: Tooltips are small user-triggered popups that explain UI elements when the user points to something. They are useful, but don't use them for critical information.

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Tooltip Guidelines

Tooltips are user-triggered messages that provide additional information about a page element or feature. Although tooltips aren’t new to the web, they are often incorrectly implemented.

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Alita Kendrick is a mixed-methods Senior UX Researcher specializing in strategic research for AI and applied machine learning.

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