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Progressive disclosure: A framework to approach clarity in a complex task
A technique to improve comprehensibility by reducing information density.
In late 2018, I wrote a fictional case study on designing Grab drivers’ mobile app. The article got some love from the community, and I appreciate all the “claps” from my “heart”. It motivates me to write more and give back to the community as I go along my journey in design.
I threw a few concepts and jargon in that article, and “Progressive Disclosure” got the most highlights, 20 to be precise. So I have decided to expand on this topic.
What is progressive disclosure?
According to Jakob Nielsen, he defined Progressive disclosure in his article dated 2006 as
“Progressive disclosure defers advanced or rarely used features to a secondary screen, making applications easier to learn and less error-prone”