Questions tagged [ios]
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What's the best way to combine an action outside of the UI with an action in the UI?
Working on a picking flow for a warehouse app and I'm having trouble translating the following flow into design
Go to space --> Scan space --> Scan product --> Enter # of units picked
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How is the material design Snackbar accessible if someone is using a screen reader?
I have an accessibility question about the snackbar pattern used in Material Design. Snackbars - Material Design
The behaviour of a snackbar is to appear for a temporary period of time then ...
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Apple UI Guidelines, tabs bars and toolbars
I want to publish my app to the Apple App Store. I created the app in PhoneGap.
It's a learn a new language app, with different sections.
In the Android version, I have tab bars at the top. These tab ...
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Not right to design same UI for both Android and iOS. But what is the number of users having both Android AND iOS?
Discussions for having same UI for both Android and iOS has been ongoing since ages and the majority of people think that design for platform is better than using same UI across different platform (...
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With a short timeline, should I perform usability testing on both iOS and Android?
The situation is this. My company is designing a native app for Android and iOS simultaneously. The timeline is very tight but we are going to squeeze in three rounds of user testing.
With such a ...
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Fat finger region selection
Part of a mobile text translation editor app I'm developing allows users to select a phrase of text and group it together, so that it can be translated as a unit. The source text sits above the target ...
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Is lack of sound in game detrimental to experience?
I'm in the process of making an iOS app. It is a puzzle game, very similar to the game 2048.
The software I am using is outdated/not well implemented making it difficult to impossible to include ...
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When and why should you deviate from iOS native design standards?
I see many companies who have design languages already created, Google, Airbnb, Facebook, Twitter, who go against iOS design standards.
For example, these company's iOS apps will have custom design ...
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Is this mobile slide menu user-friendly?
I am creating a Learn Norwegian language app for both iOS and Android.
The app consists of 4 chapters, each chapter has a sub category, for example, Pronunciation, Exercise, Grammar etc.
My problem ...
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What are best practices for deciding when to use native iOS UI elements or when to build custom ones?
I know some interactions and content are far too complicated to apply to a default iOS UI element - but when it comes to ones that could go either way, what are the best practices in making a decision?...
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Is it good UX to have a table cell be both navigable and have a switch?
I'm wondering if it's good UX in iOS to have a UITableViewCell (table cell) that is both navigable (meaning that tapping it will open another screen) and also embeds a UISwitch (switch).
Let's take ...
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Close to removing login with touch id feature! How to handle customer frustration?
Due to regulatory measures, we have to cancel touch id login feature on our mobile banking app. We know thousands of customers are already using it. What do you suggest for handling frustration ...
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Omit (login) button in favor of keybords 'Go' button
I am developing an iOS app, now it's time to do the login screen. Keep It Simple Stupid is the main principle. In line with that, what should I do? What are the pro's and con's of these two designs, ...
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iOS7 tab switcher interaction - is there a name for this?
This is the original switcher, I think you've all seen how it works.
I'd like to use (or implement) a widget with interaction similar to this app switcher (especially the scrolling), but in my app it ...
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If a user has created an account on my iOS app using Google, how should I handle their effort to also create an email account?
Imagine a user logged into my iOS app using their Google account. Months later, they are trying to create an account using their email address (the same one connected to their previous Google social ...
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Sharing a link in iOS: where to place an action button if not in a bar?
I'm going to explain what I've been told to meet: I need to add a kind of "tell a friend" option within a settings menu the app already has (which is a table view). The purpose of such "tell a friend" ...
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Where is the best place to put Terms & Conditions in a sign-up flow?
I am creating an app that when the user taps a certain action button such as "Follow" they are taken through the login flow.
Included in the login flow is
1) Asking for Facebook permission
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Where to put 'Home' button in iOS UINavigationController
I'm currently working on an iPhone App that uses the UINavigationController as a means for navigating throughout the App. The navigation-stack can go fairly deep, so It's quite a hassle for the user ...
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iOS: Alternatives to UITabBarController
I do have an iPhone and iPad native application that mainly consists in a login screen after which comes a UITabBarController with 5 options/parts.
My problem now is that I am about to include new ...
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iOS sidebar menu and back button
When using a sidebar menu, it's a good practice to place a menu button on the app's "navigation" header to make it easy for the user to discover the sidebar.
The menu button will be on the left, like ...
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iPhone vs. iPad Apps
I am trying to create an iPad app using the existing iPhone app design. I would like to know what kind of differences should I introduce in the app design as to suit it for the bigger iPad screen.
I ...
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Migrating a Tab Bar iPhone app to iPad
I have an iPhone app whose overall UI is designed like this:
That is, a tab bar and different app perspectives within each tab item, and you can navigate to different views from within a tab.
I need ...
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iOS grouped or normal tableview for categories
So I have tableview where I got different categories for huge amount of items. Would it make more sense to put the categories in grouped tableview or in a normal, or does it matter at all?
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Differences between iOS GUI and Mac OS X GUI
I am trying to wrap my head around the design considerations one needs to take into consideration as one develops an application for both the desktop and iOS. What seems clear is that the design ...
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iPad UI for selecting and configuring from many available options
I've had this rattling around in my brain for the last couple days, but I can't seem to come up with a smooth UX for this.
I'm building a stock graphing application. Included are around 300ish ...
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Should a Skeleton loading effect be used when refreshing a view with data already present?
I'm developing a mobile app, should I display a skeleton effect when the user trigger a pull refresh even when there's already a data on the screen and won't load a new or additional data in those ...
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Navigating to subpage from multiple locations
Let's assume the following Navigation Hierarchy:
RootPage1
-> SubPage1
RootPage2
RootPage3
All RootPages are accessible from the NavBar.
RootPage1 has a button that navigates the user to SubPage1....
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Right Bar Button vs Bottom Button - iOS
I can't decide the placement of the button that will take the user to the next screen or that will submit a form.
Apple uses both right bar button and bottom button in different cases. It's obvious ...
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IOS font - Can I use brand typography for app that will work on IOS?
I'm designing an app, that will be supported for Android and Ios. The brand font is Lato. I'm wondering if I should use SF Pro while designing this app or can I use a brand font?
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Mobile UX: Open full page overlay by clicking on a tab
I am creating a mobile UX in which the user presses on a tab in order to capture a 3D view of an object. Clicking on the tab opens an image capture overlay straightaway. The other 2 tabs as shown in ...
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What is the best place for an Add button in an iOS table view?
I’m trying to figure out where to put the Add button on my table view (on iOS). Its purpose is to create a new row in the table view, either inline or using a modal form.
There are 3 common positions ...
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Smaller font sizes on smaller screen devices
I'm an iOS developer and I recently had a discussion with a designer in my team about the font size of a label in an iOS app that we are producing. It is a small label that is used to present the user ...
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When to use Apples 'SF Rounded' font?
Apple uses in certain cases 'SF Rounded' for big titles and number values (e.g. Apple Pay Transaction Detail), in many other cases they still use the regular SF font (e.g. calculator, timer app).
Is ...
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Screen size to design for Android and iOS React Native App?
I am designing a mobile app (UI/UX Design) for a client that will be developed using React Native. What screen size should I start with? Do I need to design 2 different apps for this?
I have been ...
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iOS Segmented Controls
I'm trying to figure out the use cases for the different sizes of segmented controls, specifically the 2 segmented one.
The app store has a longer version (located below the Nav bar), while the iTunes ...
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Notification to jump to specialist content in feed
Is there a "best in class" example of how to direct users to a specific bit of content in their feed?
I am working on a pilot app that curates articles for students and I am looking for an effective ...
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When designing a list of items with associated actions what is the better approach?
I am designing a mobile app using Xamarin. In my app's main page I have a list of few items (1 to 4 items perhaps) and then there are other items on the page.
There are a few actions that a user can ...
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"You are about to leave..." prompts in mobile apps?
Some native mobile apps present a confirmation prompt when a user action will take them out of the app (e.g. opening a URL out-of-app in the native device browser or tapping on a street address to ...
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Where to put a "contact us" button in iOS game/app
we have a discussion in our team. We can't decide where to put contact us button in our app. Half of us wants to put it straight into landing menu page but the other part wants to put it in the ...
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iOS - Should buttons/links have a disabled state?
I'm working on an iPhone app and am doing research on disabled states. It looks like it's not a common pattern on iOS.
I looked at many apps (e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, App Store, Apple Store ...
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Do we have mobile apps which uses an action button like placement on top of the bottom navbar?
Please checkout the attachment. I have seen many such designs with the action button popping out from the bottom nav bar. Is it practically possible to add such buttons, and if yes, please provide ...
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Chat app - timestamp display
iOS messaging and other apps (i.e. skype) only show message timestamps periodically, versus the older method of showing a timestamp for every message.
(The new method offers the ability to swipe left ...
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What are some examples of well-executed OS agnostic app design? [closed]
I've noticed some of the design conventions for iOS apps will appear on Android: E.G., Instagram uses toolbars. This also happens on iOS: E.G., Google uses material design in their YouTube Music app.
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Alternate UX / UI for accordion in Mobile Development
I am not a big fan of accordion in mobile development, because I believe that this behaviour is a web style user experience. However, I don't have any resource to find an alternative solution for this ...
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iOS 9 Dialog Box and form elements
I have a task at work to change a workflow of a cancellation form. I've been asked to change an iOS dialog box to include 2 select menus that users would use to select how many people they are ...
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Asking a user to make an iOS app full screen for functionality
When trying to search in Apple's Podcasts.app in split screen mode on the iPad or iPad Pro it displays this message:
To browse or search for podcasts, make Podcasts full screen.
Is there a ...
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What is the best way to add a secondary action to a row in a mobile app?
I'm working on an app that allows the user to browse through a list of items. All of these items have a primary action (compose) and some of them also have a secondary action (search). As of now I'm ...
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what to use instead of swippable table view cell in android?
Currently i'm working on a project which has list items that include swippable table view cell.
Since this is so popular in ios and rarely used in android (only partly in google inbox app), I wonder ...
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Best Way to Switch Between Basic and Advanced App Settings
In my iOS app, I intend to have two types of settings - Basic and Advanced. The Basic settings essentially summarize the more granular 10-11 advanced settings into 3-4 different themes, so most users ...
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How should I adapt for Assistive Touch in iOS
This article reports that users avoid pressing the home button on an unfounded rumor that using the home button will cause the phone to break.
What alterations should I make to accommodate this ...
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