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title: "Progressive Disclosure"
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# Progressive Disclosure

> Layer information so that you don’t present everything to the user at once. Make some information available only at secondary or tertiary levels of navigation.

See [Applying Progressive Information Disclosure to Online Help Navigation](https://idratherbewriting.com/2012/08/09/applying-progressive-information-disclosure-to-online-help-navigation/) for more details.