atom thoughts

After publishing the Gift Hat Tour, some of the initial feedback I received was that the tour was a bit too long. Looking through the stats for the tour, I could see that a majority of the people never made it to the end. So, I searched for a more elegant solution for presenting the tour content.

My first tour implementation consisted of 8 pages, and that not all of the features of the Gift Hat that I intend to put into the tour. Each page linked to one another through a series of Next and Previous links. So, there was a very linear path through the tour.

After searching around for some alternative inspiration, I ended up completely rewriting the tour navigation to include links to the individual tour pages like so:

I think the end result is a major improvement to the tour with just a simple navigation change. Now, instead of a linear path through the tour, people can choose their own path and exit whenever they like. It also gives me plenty of room to add some of those additional features into the tour as the Gift Hat grows.