Have hints

[mwalughabura]

When a user places his finger over a certain area, there should be an “about it information tool” just like the ones that pop up when you hover a mouse button over something in a computer. This is to make the app much simpler for first time users.

[Jakeii]

When you say finger over, do you mean touch? as we can distinguish a hovering finger on a touchscreen.

[jaylarson85]

Specifically people will have a hard time understanding "IMPORT FROM URL" "IMPORT FROM SD" "LOAD FROM SD" -> we can either add a little question mark or add some text.

[usernamenumber]

This was discussed some during the call today. Here's a tool that does something like the "help overlay at the touch of a button" feature I suggested: chardin.js. Picture a "?" icon somewhere in our interface that, when clicked, pops up help info for the interface elements, similar to what's shown on their demo page.

The only difference between this and what I suggest is I think it would be cleaner for small screens if the overlay first just highlighted elements that have help, then you click the element you're interested in, and then it pops up more detailed description. Maybe that's possible with Chardin or one of the others, I don't know, but the basic functionality of Chardin would be a start.

I found this and some others linked from this StackOverflow thread.