Walletwasabi: Guided tour at first start

[MaxHillebrand]

Problem

Bitcoin in general, and Wasabi specifically is very non-trivial software. Although once one has used it a couple times it is quite intuitive, the very first impression of a new n00b user is overwhelming.

Solution

A quick [1-3 minutes] tutorial about the details of Wasabi. This could be a simple click dummy with exhaustive tool tips and highlights, or even a short animated film within the GUI. It is shown when the wallet is opened for the very first time, it can be opened again in the Help window, and it can be skipped by advanced users.

Topics included should be:

• Guided tour of each tab [Receive, Send, History]
• Explanation of the chain of digital signatures and how it breaks privacy
• Explanation of zero link coin join in general, and what the user has to do in order to register in a round
• Best practices pre- and post mix, upon others labeling, coin selection and consolidation...

[nopara73]

IMO a guided tour is quite useless. I personally never ever went through a guided tour of any software.

In practice I even found some people don't even read the tab where they would have to write down the mnemonic words.

I think it'd be better to add info buttons to tabs which sends you to a nice infographics explaining whats up with that tab. While we've been thinking about this for a long time, I'm not convinced this would be very useful either.

I think if the software is not intuitive we should make it more intuitive instead of adding documentation and call it a day. Clippy, guided tours, all these things are useful for very few people and for the developers as an "excuse" why not build this to be intuitive enough.

In summary it's a lot of work for very little benefit and with a huge maintenance burden. But if someone wants to do it go ahead, just pay attention to not put information in it that can be subject to change.

• "If you click the "Foo" button, then xyz will happen" - BAD, the "Foo" button is subject to change or complete removal.
• "You have to select coins before making a transaction, this is important, because privacy, coin control, xyz." - GOOD, it explains a concept without going into specifics that is unlikely to change anytime soon.

[MaxHillebrand]

Agreed, the UX should be intuitive on it's own, and we are getting there for sure.
I bring this up because both of the testers from the hackaton [one basic knowledge of Bitcoin, one no-coiner, both never seen wasabi] said that they would like to have a "crash course" so they know what's actually going on.
I like the idea of the pop up info-graphics per tab, especially for the CJ tab.
But I'd prefer an interactive click dummy / info-graphic to a static one... This way the user can try it first in "test mode", and it's not just a boring reading.

[yahiheb]

Should we close this?