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Help Needs Your Help

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For the two people who read my blog who haven't already seen it, Scott Swanson, a PM on my extended team in Microsoft Visual Studio, is soliciting user feedback on a potential redesign of the help toolbar in Visual Studio Whidbey. Josh offers his thoughts.

Go. Vote.

My 4 cents about the proposed design (and accompanying user comments):

  1. The bi-directional arrows in the Table of Contents Synchronize button (<- ->) are barely visible.
  2. Where the @#$!! is Dynamic Help?

In my humble but professional opinion, context-sensitive help (Dynamic Help in Visual Studio and in Office now, I think) is a powerful paradigm and a useful tool for progressively educating new users in particular.  Obviously, Scott, TimSull, and company need to take some time to address the root causes of user disgust with the DH window: a) it affects VS performance adversely and b) it *appears* to affect performance adversely.

Dynamic Help is the Semantic Win.

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