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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Porting iOS to Android
I'm not really a designer/UX expert, however I have been developing on Android for some time now and I always try to stick to the look and feel of the standard (ICS) look and feel (with some degree of ...
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iPhone button on screen with table view: last row or outside table?
I have a table view that's showing attributes of a record, very much like Edit Info screen in the iOS Contacts app.
Also like that screen, I'd like to show a "Delete Record" button at the bottom.
It ...
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Adopting sidebars in iOS apps
It looks like several known apps for iOS (Foursquare, Spotify) now adopt the sidebar that already was present in Facebook app (screenshot is from Spotify for iPhone):
AFAIK, this is not a standard ...
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Why are icons on mobile phone menu screens square or rectangular but not circular?
If you take a look at the app page of any mobile OS, for example iOS, Android, Ubuntu, Win8, BADA, etc., they all have square icons, either with rounded corner or sharp corners (shown in the first ...
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Navigating a multi-part article in ios?
In my application I've got some multi-part articles, about test-driving a car. The articles are split into multiple section.
I'm using this control to navigate between the sections (note: it's not ...
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Is there a need for save/cancel buttons in iOS app?
I am developing an investment property evaluator app that allows the user to record information about a potential investment property and evaluates the property based on certain metrics. It uses drill ...
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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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Ideas and/or research results on the best way to present a lengthy list of chapters
I'm looking for the best way to present a list of chapters on an iPhone. My first stab was to create a vertically scrolling table with a row for each chapter. For example, when showing the chapters of ...
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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 ...
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What is the best method to show selected filters from very long lists?
I need to find a solution for displaying flagged items from a very long list.
The following pics shows the filter panel of the iPad App.
Users can select all the items or search for specific items ...
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Navigation bar and buttons considerations for iOS
I have some questions regarding navigation bars and their usage in iOS apps, both from the point of view of UX and Apple´s submission and human interface guidelines:
1) Since the iOS Human Interface ...
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Best way of editing rows and row details of a UITableView in iOS
I have a table view which may have several items (rows), which in turn have more information that I want to be displayed in another view by tapping the row (common scenario). The point is, I'd like to ...
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Best to say 'swipe up' or 'swipe down'?
I am building an app (iOS) which consists of paged tiles which the user has to pan through.
My question: When I need to tell the user to move the content up to view the content below it, should I say ...
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Is it necessary to use titles on the navigation bar of an iOS app, or could I get away with displaying the logo all the time?
Within my app there are several views accessible from a side navigation pull-out panel.
Is it necessary to put the title in the navigation bar all the time?
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Can we assume users know the devices they're working on?
I'm developing an iPhone app that uses pretty standard UI, follows Apple's human-interface guidelines, and in some cases imitates behavior as seen in stock iPhone apps. For example, a table view from ...
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Right amount of padding between buttons in a mobile app
I am designing a mobile app for both ipad and iphone. I have a navigation bar which has several buttons next to each other and an action bar that has several buttons next to each other. Is there a ...
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Social network login or not?
I am developing a niche social networking iPhone app of my own.
I was wondering if it would be best to allow the user to connect to social networks such as Facebook and Twitter to login to my app ...
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iOS and UITableViewCell: best practices when requesting user input as a form
Firstly, I'd like to make a general question regarding table view cells' customization: are there any restrictions about the controls they can cointain, and/or its number? I read in iOS HIG iOS Human ...
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Startup screens: “Show this page at startup” vs. “Don't show this on startup”
I'm currently working on an iOS app where the user is presented with a startup screen until the user disables it.
I am insisting that this startup screen should have an already ticked checkbox that ...
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Modal vs non-modal views in iPhone
I've been reading and looking at different iOS apps to design the UI for mine, and it feels like sometimes the difference between using a modal view or a non-modal view is not entirely clear... for ...
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Differences between iOS and Android GUIs [closed]
People sometimes ask me why I chose to buy an iPhone instead of an Android. I always reply the same thing: iPhones (and Apple devices in general) are more user friendly, in my opinion, than Androids. ...
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What is the reason behind the upper-case-lower-case behaviour of the Apple iOS keyboard?
On Windows and Android phones/tablets the case of the keypad letters alters when pressing SHIFT:
But Apple seems to ignore this presumably useful feature. Does Apple really know it's better NOT to ...
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Google Now like interface on iOS [closed]
So, I absolutely love Google Now's cards interface on Android.. And recently it has even come to iOS.
Is there any tutorial, or sample project out there which can help me create a cards interface for ...
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Searching apps on smart phone home screen
I'm interested to know about the effectiveness of the search application on the iPhone home screen.
For example, I have 4 screens of apps and it takes me a few seconds to find an application that I ...
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Use of tab bar and navigation bar in iPhone app
I'm developing an app that provides information about companies. I would like to have tab bar buttons for "Favorites" view and "Search" view. I also need tools for actions, for example in the ...
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What UX Changes Needed For New iPhone 5 App Updates? [closed]
I am helping my team to update our iOS app to support retina display and iPhone 5.
I've read little bit of Cocoa Auto Layout, and other pages from developer.apple.com.
But my question is, if I ...
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How to hint that there's more beyond what you see in a scroll view?
I'm developing an (iOS) app that mainly consists of a UIScrollView. The view is paged and the scroll bar turned off, so currently there is nothing to indicate to the user that they can scroll down and ...
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Is it acceptable/good UX to use ios Segmented Control as a radio control?
I'm an ios developer by profession and was told of by a UX Architect for suggesting the use of the ios Segmented Control as a group of radio buttons.
We have to present a mutually exclusive choice ...
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What do you call non-retina displays?
With the introduction of high density pixel displays (Retina being the brand name Apple uses) what do we now call non-retina (low pixel density) displays?
Legacy Displays
Low Pixel Density Displays
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Should I follow the Android guideline or keep my app's own style when porting it from iOS?
My new project is to port an iOS app to Android platform. Before get started, I'm quite confused on whether I should follow google's guideline since some big titles on Android platform still keep the ...
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When is Skeuomorphism appropriate in an iOS app?
I know there are no hard and fast rules regarding the use of Skeuomorphism, but I'd like to more fully understand when the use of Skeuomorphic elements is appropriate in iOS apps.
To my limited ...
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iOS multi-step form and user input validation
I need to design a form that may consist of 3 or 4 steps, all of them requesting both mandatory and optional data. The overall form contains a lot of data inputs, so I thought it would be better to ...
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Designing for the iPad
I'd like to make my site accessible to people that have the iPad or other iOS devices.
What considerations do I need to take into account when designing a user interface that is compatible with the ...
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Is Tab Bar based iOS Design for feed driven apps a better UX?
Working on a feed driven iOS application and wondering peoples thoughts on Tab Bar driven iOS design for feed based apps. There is a large amount of evidence that supports the well integrated use of ...
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How to handle to iOS visitors to a Flash web app?
We're about to release a Flash based web app, and a significant minority of the visitors are likely to be using iOS devices, and thus of course unable to use it in their browser. Sadly a switch away ...
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Creating a group/collection of interlinked iOS apps [closed]
What I'm trying to do:
I'm designing a pretty complicated iPhone/Android game.
I'm thinking of splitting it into 4 apps because there are essentially 3 actual games and 1 HQ that will handle the ...
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Tabbar inside Modal View - iPhone
Is it ok to have TabBar in Modal view in iOS UI (iPhone)?
I have a "Select Contact" view in my app and I plan to make it as modal view.
But "Select Contact" is a set of views: "Favourites", ...
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Placement of 'Cancel/Done/Home'-Button on iPhone modal view
I have a modal view in my iPhone app including a navigation bar with two buttons on the root view controller. A a button to dismiss the screen, also not sure which title to use calling it now the ...
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Can I change the bottom navigation bar in an iOS app?
I have an application with three tabs on the bottom, as shown, that each bring up their own view within the scope of the 'main' part of the app, BUT, if I want to have separate but similar lists ...
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Does Apple recommend a minimum table view height?
I know Apple has certain minimum sizes for things like font no smaller than 13pt. I was wondering if they had a spec (maybe in their HIG) for minimum table view height. I have a design with a short ...
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Introduction Screen Acceptable on Mobile?
I am making a calculator app that uses some new ideas for data manipulation. The details aren't important, only that the user needs to be taught new principles.
Recently, there has been some talk ...
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Should scrolling be disabled when there are no items to scroll to?
Assume a horizontal scrollview is being populated with 2 views, leaving 80% of the scroller empty.
Should scrolling be disabled?
Allowing the user to scroll makes the 2 views move without a purpose.
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How to edit only one list in a split list view?
I'm helping out developing an iPhone app that enables access to a lot of list items of data.
On the start screen, the user can dig into the list items through either predefined category shortcuts or ...
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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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iOS multitasking closing is poorly designed? [closed]
I have a question about iOS's multitasking bar, and a design decision in it. If you double tap the homescreen to go into the multitasking ...
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Trying to build intuitive simple user interface for an iphone app
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Below is a simple mockup for a spending tracker mobile app (for frequent travelers) that i built. Each of the 3 gray boxes are inputs (name, amount, currency). A sample input ...
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When to show a lock screen (iOS mobile app)
I'm part of a team working for a client on a business iPhone app that has an optional 'passcode lock' feature.
One of the screens shows a list of saved items that may contain sensitive information. ...
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Map with tappable neighborhoods vs. list of neighborhoods in iPhone app
I'm designing an iPhone app which gives users the option to filter by neighborhoods and I'm considering giving users the option to select neighborhoods from a list as well as by tapping on ...
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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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Pagination vs Scroll in is iOS apps (ecommerce) [duplicate]
Do you have any detailed study on expected navigation patterns in iOS applications, especially in ecommerce apps?
We are designing a photo shoot & order application and I would like to get to ...
