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Progressive disclosure: A framework to approach clarity in a complex task

A technique to improve comprehensibility by reducing information density.

Tridip Thrizu
UX Collective
5 min readSep 25, 2021

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.

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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.

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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”

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