Auto demoing interactivity

Sometimes, you have an interactive feature that is not obvious. Users need to be educated to know that it exists. For example, you may have a box that renders and object, and users can hold down the mouse and drag to rotate that object.

One way to communicate that this feature exists is to immediately animate what it looks like when that feature is being used. In the above example, you would show a cursor dragging and the object rotating in response. NASA does this with models of moons.

Links:

• NASA's Tethys widget.

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