03.2.7 · Skill in Interaction design
Progressive disclosure
Showing advanced options only when they are needed.
Progressive disclosure keeps the main path simple and moves rare or advanced options one step away. It lets a product serve beginners and experts at the same time. The hard part is deciding what counts as advanced, which is a research question.
Resources
1- articleGo deeperFew guesses, more success: 4 principles to reduce cognitive load in forms ↗NN/g · 2025 · 15 min
How to make forms ask less of people's memory and attention, with progressive disclosure as one tool.
Tools
none yetTools for this topic are being researched.