Progressive disclosure is an interaction design pattern used to make applications easier to learn and less error-prone.
It does so by deferring some advanced or rarely-used features to a secondary screen[1] and designing workflows where information is revealed when it becomes relevant to the current task.
If the user wants more advanced options, they can click the "Show Details" button to reveal these features in a secondary screen.
[citation needed] In the physical world, progressive disclosure is used by modern theme park designers.
[3] Kristina Hooper Woolsey, a founding member of the Apple Human Interface Group, wrote in 1985 what could be considered as the seminal idea for selectively disclosing to new users how a system works:"In the design of interfaces one must also consider carefully how one selectively informs a user about a particular system, providing well-chosen bits and pieces that can constitute a general understanding of a system.