# Displaying user card on hover

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/displaying-user-card-on-hover/104126>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [December 12, 2018, 5:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/displaying-user-card-on-hover/104126 "2018-12-12T17:28:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 12:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/displaying-user-card-on-hover/104126/2 "2018-12-13T00:15:09Z")

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Hover doesn’t work on any touch devices, so it generally should be avoided as a primary UX mechanism.

> **[Title Texts Suck | Axess Lab](https://axesslab.com/title-texts-suck/)**
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> Many people I meet think title texts, also known as tooltips, improve both the accessibility and usability of their sites. They don't. In fact, they…

It’s also kind of irritating when stuff starts popping all around your mouse cursor as you move it.

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