Re: Visible controls - Design canvas exception

> However, for me the big takeaway from this exercise is the concept of "primary function" of the control.

I think that’s a fairly “squishy” concept as well, particularly if there are multiple purposes, or multiple links that appear on hover (and does it fail due to there being multiple links for secondary purposes?).


> - The usual category of failure of this SC would be when there is nothing there at all identifying that there is a popup, and you discover it by hovering around.

The aspect of that which logically confuses me is when the triggers look the same (e.g. text+icon), and then some items have an on-hover menu and some don’t. They all have a visual indicator, including items which don’t have an on-hover. If it isn’t consistent, is it really a visual indicator?


> Then there will be some squishy ones, where we need to carve out exceptions around known conventions (i.e, considerations for these could be hovering over a video, table editing, or perhaps a tile)

For the audience this SC is supposed to support, are they known conventions?

And if so, how do we define those conventions?

Survey on this coming soon…

-Alastair