'Show me how' buttons on the complicated screens

A small cap icon in the header of feature-heavy screens that launches that screen's own tutorial.

What it is

Screens that are easy to misread — lead distribution, analytics, the send-estimate modal, an opportunity card — carry a hint icon in the header. Clicking it starts the tutorial for that exact surface. The hint renders nothing at all if its tutorial has not been written yet, if the user hid the Academy, or if the tutorial is gated away from their role.

Also called: contextual help · help icon · learn this screen · inline tutorial link

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'Show me how' buttons on the complicated screens
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A screen header (e.g. Analytics) with the small graduation-cap hint icon beside the title — AcademyHint.tsx. Sample data — no customer information appears here.
How it works
  1. 1A component is dropped in a screen header with a tutorial id
  2. 2It subscribes to the tutorial registry so it appears the moment its lesson is registered
  3. 3It hides itself when the tutorial is unregistered, the Academy is switched off, or the user's role is excluded
Why we built it

Help filed away in its own section is help nobody opens at the moment they are stuck; they guess instead, or they ring the office. So the screens with the most moving parts carry a small cap icon in the header that starts that screen's own lesson right there. The icon appears only where a lesson actually exists, so it is never a button that does nothing — which is the usual way in-context help loses people's trust.

The problem
  • Users hit confusion on a screen and have to go hunting in a help section
  • Contextual help links rot into dead buttons
Sound familiar?
What you get
Help is one click away exactly where confusion happens
A hint can never point at a lesson that does not exist

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