Creating Mobile Variants Using Adaptive Layouts - Part 3

With Ceros, you can reveal additional content when a user takes an action in your experience. To get started with this lesson, go ahead and upload the build-along experience to your account.

To create this effect, we need to add a hover state to the object. This way, when the user hovers their cursor over the button, it will trigger the state of the button to change.

You can see in our layers panel that our button consists of a square shape and text box. The square shape has a dark opaque fill color—and the text is colored white. Using Object States, we can easily set these two objects to switch colors when a user hovers over the button.

We’re going to set this up so that our square shape turns white, and our text turns blue, when we hover over the button. We can start by selecting our square shape, navigating to the design tab and clicking the plus sign next to ‘States’. The current state of our square shape will be set as the default state, let’s add a transition here with the standard timing to ensure this looks smooth. Now, in the drop down we can add a Hover state— let’s also add a transition here to match our default state. Further down in our design tab we can change the color of our hover state to white, and set the opacity to 100%. Now, let’s go through the same process for the text box. This time we’re going to change the color to a dark blue. Feel free to use the color picker on the canvas so that your text matches the experience. After we’ve added our hover states to the square shape and the text box, we’ll want to select the entire group and make sure to click “Use group as trigger”; this will trigger all of the hover states in the group at the same time. And it’s actually that simple. Now when you preview your experience, you will see when you hover over the button, the button changes to the Hover state that you’ve applied.

Now we can build out our interaction to show a popup. To start, let’s ensure the popup image’s visibility is turned off by default. And then navigate over to our original button. As you can see in the subsequent menu, you can add as many different interactions as you want. In this case we will only have two but feel free to combine multiple actions and triggers to achieve your desired effect. In a previous step, we made sure to check off “use group as trigger” to trigger the hover object state of the button. Checking this button automatically creates two interactions on the button—we’re going to edit the existing on click interaction. Let’s adjust it to have an on click trigger with a show action and then choose our popup folder as the target. Note that you’ll also want to deselect the button group.

To give your user a way to exit the window, turn the visibility of the popup group back on, and add a hotspot over the “Close” icon. On this hotspot we can apply an interaction that says “On Click”- “Hide”- “Popup group”.

Once you’ve finished, go ahead a turn off the visibility of the popup and then navigate back over to your preview to see if your effect works as intended.

Lastly, let’s take a look at the difference between the Go to URL and Open URL in Lightbox interactions. Be sure to download the build along experience to your account.

On the build along experience, select the hotspot on page 1 and navigate to the Interact tab. Choose an “On Click” trigger and “Go to URL” as the action. Here you can enter any URL that you want to link to.

The second option keeps your users within the Ceros experience, so go ahead and set up the interaction the exact same way, but choose Open URL in Lightbox as the interaction.

Taking a look at the preview, you can see how both of these actions can fit the different needs of your content. If you have any questions on the interactions in this lesson, please feel free to reach out via the support chat within Ceros.