iOS is a mobile phone and tablet operating system built by Apple, Inc. It is a light weight touch screen OS based on the Mac OS UNIX called Darwin.
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How much choice should I give users?
I am considering adding an update to my iPhone app that allows the user to choose many new features such as the background image, where certain buttons are located, button colors, button design, ...
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What's the right UI idiom for seeing content obscured by a search bar keyboard?
I've got a situation where there's a list of items to search and a search bar to enter text. When the search bar has focus, the onscreen keyboard pops up. This looks like so:
(Note that the list ...
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Ipad/Iphone designing in Full-Screen vs Non-Full-Screen?
I've noticed that most games are in full screen mode and some Apps have taken this on in design. Is there any research or argument for having an App in Full-Screen vs Non-Full-Screen?
The only ...
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Optimizing the selection process [closed]
I am developing a mobile application in which the user selects the fields that s/he wants to enter information into. At the moment, I have two screens - one for selecting the fields and other for ...
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Constraining user actions in Maps API
I have an app which highly depends on maps. Should I allow the user to zoom in, pinch, and other things or should constraint it to only the current location.
My application tracks the users location ...
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How can users edit metadata in a bulk photo uploader app?
I'm developing a photo uploader iPhone app for an image hosting site. Each image has two details of metadata:
Title/Filename (required, unique)
Description (required)
Categories (0 or more)
One of ...
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In iOS, how to make “take photo” views feel more like the rest of the app?
The standard iOS "take a photo" view has its "navigation and action" bar at the bottom, unlike (almost) every other iOS view that has the navigation/action bar on top.
I assume Apple broke ...
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Do smartphone users understand the term 'Push Notifications'?
We're including opt-in (on/off) for push notifications in an app, and I've heard feedback from project managers that some of the language might be too technical for the average shopper, like 'Push ...
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Multiple selection in an iOS picker view
The iOS SDK doesn't have a multiple selection picker view. However Safari's picker view allows multiple selection. Fortunately ALPickerView was created to allow multiple selection in a picker view. Is ...
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Remove or keep Clear control in mandatory input-field? (iPhone)
I've had a little discussion with one of my co-workers regarding how to handle the Clear all -button in a mandatory input-field on the iPhone. The field holds the account email address and is present ...
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How to display points of interest, waypoints, trails and maps?
I am redesigning a screen in my iPhone app, Gaia GPS, that displays details about points of interest, as well as user-created waypoints, trails, and maps.
I have come up with a new mockup:
What is ...
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Is there a standard iPhone way of displaying an actionless confirmation message?
Sometimes it's desirable to display an important confirmation message (e.g. you've successfully registered/sent this form/etc) that doesn't get in the way by requiring a "dimiss" button. Is there a ...
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Android/iOS: Homescreen [closed]
I have noticed more and more mobile apps are removing their home screen, especially iOS apps. What do you think of this?
Personally I think sometimes an app's home screen is redundant, just a pretty ...
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How to solve/avoid “circular” navigation on an iOS app
Let's say I have an app that manages some items. An item can be "owned" by an user.
I'll have these screens :
List of items (A)
Item detail page (B)
User Detail page (C)
I want to display ...
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Is it appropriate to use Metro style design for a cross-platform mobile app
I'm finding it really difficult to design UI's for android and ios after falling in love with the windows metro design.
I wondered if providing a metro style app across all platforms would be such a ...
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iOS Table View - How to divide/filter different data
I'm wondering what the preferred choice would be to divide/filter data in an iOS Table View. The two options I have thought of are:
Use sections in the Table View
Use a Segmented Control
I believe ...
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Mobile UX prototyping tools in the classroom [closed]
(I know this sounds like a repeat question, but I am asking this specifically for a classroom context and I have some specific needs (other than "free") that I feel sets this question apart. Please ...
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disabling the zoom in functionality on an iPad due to fixed navigational elements
I have an iPad-specific website which has had the "zoom-in" feature disabled on it as I have horizontal and vertical fixed navigational elements that I do not want to go out of view.
I would like to ...
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Should I lock to portrait my iOS app?
I'm developing a "reading" app for iOS. I'm wondering if it's useful to have the app running both on portrait and landscape mode.
As a reader I usually keep books (or my kindle, or my iPhone browser, ...
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Mobile UI design feedback [closed]
This is the first mockup of a Pill Reminder iOS app. A few elements are not designed yet, such as the tab bar items. Any feedback/advice is appreciated!
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iPhone table view filter with multiple controls
Assume we have a real-estate iPhone app which shows a list of properties in a table view.
I would like to offer the user the ability to filter the list according to about 6-7 different criteria.
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OmniGraffle Stencils Recourses [closed]
Does anybody use stencils for OmniGraffle for wireframe design?
Any good sources where could I find some?
I found
http://graffletopia.com
http://stenzils.com
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iPhone - popup dialog for user input: when it's worth using it?
I tried to ask this in another thread but, apperently, my scenario was covering the real question. So I try again here, addressing this specific issue.
I noticed that, normally, popup dialogs in iOS ...
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iPhone - Password Forgotten - popup dialog or modal?
I have been struggling a little with this problem.
I'll start introducing my case so to better explain my concerns.
The scenario I'm dealing with is that of a password forgotten feature:
I have a ...
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What is a dynamic alternative to UITableView? [closed]
Ok, so I have a normal viewController that has a UIScrollView in it that gives details about distilleries. What I wanted to do was have a list of spirits that are distilled at the distillery that they ...
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Navigation-back button and/or Cancel button in upper-left corner of iOS data entry screen?
I have an iOS screen that is usually used for data entry but is occasionally used to later view the data that's been entered.
For data entry, it seems like the iOS convention (e.g. stock email app) ...
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What is the best approach to labelling text input fields on smartphone application forms?
Platform: iOS. Must be able to run on all (probably most) iphone devices.
As part of a smartphone application design, I am currently designing an "event creation" form, originally implemented in a ...
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Is Apple's or Google's meaning of the three-horizontal-bar icon more popular?
Apple and Google are going head-to-head to define meaning of the three-horizontal-bars icon:
In iOS this icon means "drag me to rearrange items in a list" while Google Chrome's version means "click ...
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how to subtly indicate that an address is “mappable” in a mobile app?
We're building an iPhone app for delivery drivers. Each driver has a route of about 50 locations, 10-15 of which get scheduled for each day's deliveries, depending on which location needs restocking. ...
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How to show the mandatory fields on an iOS device?
I have to show more than 11 fields within the screen. 4 fields are mandatory. How should I indicate the mandatory fields? Is there any standard or any ideas?
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Shifting a view into inline-edit mode VS. dedicated edit screen?
I'm developing an iOS app, and I'm conflicted on which is the better UX choice to make. The main screen displays a nicely arranged carousel of objects, with just a few core details. The user can edit ...
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What's the proper iOS UI for switching between 2 views?
There two different screens, Live and Leaderboard, and I need to switch between them.
Is there any sort of iOS standard for handling the UI for that?
Right now I've just got a button at the top ...
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iPhone Dropdown Menu element
Designing mobile applications is something I find extremely interesting, but I have recently become more interested in the UI element of a drop down menu for IOS applications. It does seem to always ...
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Why does iOS (iPhone) flip to show the home screen when installing apps?
When you click to install or update an app in iOS (iPhone or iPad) it exits from the app store and shows the apps installing on the home screen.
This differs from Android where the confirmation that ...
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Is spacing between touch targets an unnecessary recommendation by Microsoft?
A recent Microsoft IE10 blogpost gave general guidelines for building touch friendly sites suggesting two rules for touch targets:
Target size
Margin between targets
Apple's iOS guidance only ...
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Designing an app for iPad / iPhone retina display
I am working for a client to develop an iOS app both for iPhone and iPad including for retina displays.
The client is going to get the UX designs himself. We use the Apple's iOS Human Interface ...
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Do spinner-based date pickers on iOS & Android detract from the user's experience?
Generally speaking, the rule of thumb on mobile devices is to follow the platform conventions, and that native controls are almost always better than custom UIs. However, I'm at a loss as to whether ...
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wizard pattern on iOS - should I use navigation controller?
I am building an app where user can send a message to his contacts. User must be able to set some settings on this message (like color, font size,...). I was thinking of using 3 screens:
enters the ...
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Is there a justification document for UI design from Apple or Microsoft?
In my bachelor thesis (B.A., media science) I am comparing the user interfaces of iOS 5.1.1 and Windows Phone 7.5. I'm focussing on their use of "real world" things. While I know of their guidelines ...
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Organising vehicle categories screen?
Currently working on a taxi app and need to organise the vehicles into categories. The user will need to be able to quickly select their desired vehicle while showing passengers & luggage for each ...
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Best way to select quantity of items for an eCommerce mobile application?
I'm designing an e-commerce app, and I'm looking for some options for the best way to select the quantity of an item before adding to the cart
The first (on the left) is when the user selects the ...
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Custom rating slider
I have made a custom interface object to handle user rating in a take-away app I am currently building.
But I am not sure if it's intuitive enough in its form.
Q : Would you understand an object ...
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Should I hide the tab bar on iOS when I'm creating a new item?
Background
I'm building an application with a tab bar at the bottom showing two different object types - for example, buildings and trucks.
Each of these tabs shows buildings and trucks in separate ...
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iPad cancel button in multiple line fields
I have a text field that starts out as one line and can sometimes expand to multiple lines. When it's one line I'd like to have a cancel button in it like this:
(Enter text here X),
but I'm not ...
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How to request that two out of three fields need to be populated in a mobile search app
I am developing a new iOS app and I need to let the user commit a search where three fields are shown.
a group name (development, marketing etc.)
member name
project name
the search should be ...
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Making clicks meaningful on iPad
As a web designer building a shopping cart for the iPad, I find the lack of down and click states difficult.
What's a good way without raising a confirmation pop up or something terrible and ugly to ...
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Why aren't iPhone text messages at full width?
Why aren't text messages viewed on the iPhone iOS displayed at full width? I can think of several reasons why it would make sense:
Short messages won't have unnecessary line breaks, long text ...
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How to list items with variants in an iOS Table View?
I'm looking for an elegant way to show a list of items in a Table View, where most (not all) items will have 2 variants.
If I lay the items out as is (with A and B represented by icons):
...
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What are the UX considerations/issues when porting an iOS app to Windows Phone?
I've noted the previous topics on Windows Phone 7 best practices and will be reading the suggested docs over several coffees this evening, but to help me on my way I'd appreciate any input you all may ...
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How can I design a UI for iOS with a diamond shaped drill down interface?
I have a basic drill down interface for iOS devices.
A -> B -> C -> D
The problem is that the following interface would work equally well:
A -> C -> B -> D
What I need is some kind of diamond ...
