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Does the iOS 7 UX benefits from its flat design? [closed]
The iOS 7 redesign Apple yesterday released as a beta is a contentious issue. But aside of the subjective discussions about icon design and blurred backgrounds in rainbow colors, is the new flat UI in ...
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Best UX for mobile Q&A/survey [closed]
What are some of the best ways others have handled asking questions of users on mobile devices? Specifically questions that are simpler than just a question with a few words and a one or two word ...
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How to recruit participants for usability study of a mobile app?
I'm currently designing an Android app and would like to do a usability study to test how the app works with the target audience.
I have a question regarding recruiting participants. Since there are ...
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How do you handle panning a map embedded on a scrollable web page for touch devices?
I'm currently developing a dashboard-style web interface with an embedded Bing V7 map and it's working great.
On a tablet, usually the map will be shown half above 'the fold' and half below.
This ...
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Maximun number of page scrolls (or swipes) on mobile website
I'm trying to find some numbers / data / studies / testing that uncovers the maximum number of scrolls (swipes) that should be used on a mobile site in determining page length. I know the typical best ...
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Any Research on User Experience Perceptions of Native Apps vs Web or Hybrid Apps
My organization is looking at developing mobile applications, we have a wealth of web development resources. There are many factors to consider in making the decision of how to develop this ...
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Fixed/floating button on mobile app
We're developing a new mobile app for premium users. It is basically a content reading app. The content will be updated periodically; we have 3 fixed "topics". These topics are going to be updated ...
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Are modals usable on smartphones, or is there a better alternative?
I want to make a simple popover (or modal) that allows a user to subscribe to a newsletter (of course only when a user clicks on "subscribe to newsletter", I don't want to be obnoxious). It'll be a ...
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What is a good color combination, visibility for outside use
I am designing the layout for a touchscreen for outside use, What are some good color combination to use that will be visible under the sun light for outside use? Maybe bright neon colors?
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Should mobile navigation be aligned to the left or right?
I apologise if this question is a duplicate. On a quick browse I couldn't see anything referring to this. I've always aligned my navigation icon on mobile to the right. Mainly because I just assumed ...
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Four different types of actions need to be applied to elements in a list on a mobile phone. How do I organize these actions?
I have a bunch of user created items in a list on a mobile phone. I've broken the possible actions applied to each into four types, listed below in order of most often used:
reply to internal ...
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Should I put the map on the first page?
I want to make an application to find parking and my question is if I should place the map on the first page.
On the one hand the map shows you where you are; if you're in a city that is not yours it ...
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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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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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Best practice for a desktop version dropdown hover menu to work on mobile?
I'll give my example as it explains exactly what I mean. We have a store that on the main menu has a "Shop" link that when hovered over, will display a dropdown menu of categories and subcategories. ...
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Icons vs. Dropdown for primary mobile navigation
I am working on a responsive design in which there are 5 selections in the primary navigation. I'm thinking because there are only 5 I could use icons instead of a dropdown for the primary navigation. ...
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Should you optimize mobile experiences based on individual handedness?
In abbood's question "How to implement a stack exchange style voting for mobile?" he answers his own question with the following mock-up:
My immediate thought was that the up-vote control was on ...
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How to visually indicate which pieces of information have changed
I work on a warehouse hand-scanner based GUI. It tells a user where to go, and which item to collect when they get there. When they scan the correct item, the screen changes, and indicates the next ...
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Is there any good reason why I shouldn't make some mobile app parts sticky?
What are the downsides of making that part with column-chart sticky (Always positioned to the top even when bottom part is scrolled down)?
Haven't met that kind of solution in any mobile app before. ...
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Are hover states necessary?
We're having a discussion in the UX department here at work as to whether or not hover states are necessary to a UI. We're kind of divided. Here are the two arguments:
Against (started the ...
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Do “extended” batteries really affect user experience?
There're several companies out there that sell "extended" batteries for smartphones. For example, Nokia Lumia 820 standard battery has 1450 mAh capacity and the extended one has 1600 mAh capacity - 9% ...
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Should I build camera functionality into a photo sharing app or let the user use the device camera app they would already be familiar with?
I have been working on the idea I have for sort of another photo sharing app. Last few days, as I have been working on the part of it for taking photos in square format (like instagram) I started to ...
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Carousel Menu on Mobile Device [closed]
So, I made this carousel menu as a second menu and using Jquery Mobile framework.
This carousel is clickable and when i saw on some reference there's also swipe for touchscreen. Is my carousel ...
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How should we format numbers on a mobile device for a POS app?
We are working on an point of sale app, and need to figure out how to format the numbers on the screen for when a client is entering a credit card number.
The two options are:
1) The way a phone ...
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What android UI control fits for selection of number in large range?
I'm working on a application for tracking body mass measurements. I need the user to be able to input a number representing body weight, whose magnitude ranges from 0.00 kg to normally 300.00 kg. The ...
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Have controls fade out on scroll?
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In our application we have a list view of contacts. In addition to the list there is a filter panel at the top of the list which provides contact type filtering through a segment control:
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drop down navigation for web/mobile
I'm in the process of a website redesign and I'm not really sure what to do with the navigation. The goals of the redesign are to simplify the site and make it more mobile friendly.
The existing site ...
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Are “beginner/advanced/expert grades user interface” within the same app common for modern iPhone/iPad apps?
One of my favorite PC games of all time is Birthright: The Gorgons alliance. It is a very deep and complicated game that had much more than many single player games at that time.
For example, the ...
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Is swiping up/down better than swiping left/right for changing months on a calendar?
I have created a custom View to display a Calendar in Android.
The display is always 1 month. I'm using a swipe to the sides to switch months. Now I have seen some other Apps (including the installed ...
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What are the “Big Three” Gestures in Mobile Development?
last week, our project manager mentioned that we needed to incorporate more of the "big 3" gestures in our mobile software. unfortunately, she's off on vacation now and none of us know what exactly ...
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Are the Metro UI icons poor for usability?
While looking at Metro UI styles I thought about one of the unique aspects of the icons. Their placement inside circles. E.g.
I can imagine that this provides a target like effect, emphasising the ...
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How do left-handed people hold smartphones?
Is it with their left hand, using its thumb to tap UI elements? Or do they use their right hand like right-handed people? Is there any research into this matter with published numbers?
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What is best practice for UX surveys of a mobile application?
I developed an Android application and I want to make a survey/questionaire about the usability, user interface, user experience etc. of my application to get some feedback from users. But I don't ...
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When are “hidden” usability improvements helpful vs. confusing/frustrating?
I just read an article about some bonus keys on the iPad's split keyboard. Obviously this seems like a great idea to prevent a usability issue from even happening. It seems like this could backfire ...
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What is the most used method to categorize new threads in a mobile forum application? [closed]
I am planning to launch a new Forum/Chat app for Android/iPhone. The app requires users to specify a category before creating a new thread.
What is the most common method to show and allow users to ...
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How to help users navigate a very long list on mobile
I recently came across SXSW's native apps on iPhone and Android. Both apps revolve around the conference's schedule. On the home-screen of both apps, you get the day's schedule, which is actually a ...
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How is mobile information architecture different from desktop?
I have been trying to find examples on web for information architecture techniques specifically for mobile devices. I realize the steps in getting a IA for any tool mobile/desktop are card sorting, ...
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Redirect non-desktop users to mobile site or just change template and keep the same url?
I want to know what would be the best way to present my site to users when they are not using desktop computers (and they are using mobile phones, smartphones or tablets)? I am currently working on a ...
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On mobile phones why is the green (call) button at the left and red (hang) button at the right side?
Some old mobile phones have switched position of green/red buttons.
Currently the green button is at the left and red button is at the right side on mobile phones.
Why? That is rationale? Which ...
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Best way to handle mobile website terms and conditions?
A form I am optimising for mobile has specific references to terms and conditions in numerous times (not just at the end usual checkbox, for example "We need this detail to sometimes contact you, read ...
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Date input on mobile devices
I am designing a web form optimised for touchscreen mobile browsers, one of those fields is a date of birth entry. On the web form it is currently split into 3 select boxes (one for day, month and ...
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Responsive web design Vs Separate website for Mobile
Responsive Web design is buzzword these days. which means to create a same website and optimized for all devices.
There are also some website which convert the desktop websites into Mobile website
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What's the best terminology for switching from a mobile site to the “full” website?
I've seen links to switch to the "Classic" site or the "Standard" site and I was just wondering if anyone did any testing with this. I like the sound of "full" but I have nothing to back it up. Any ...
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Where we should keep primary navigation in a mobile website, especially on the Homepage?
1) Vertically On home page with logo and footer and then at bottom of each page
see on iphone http://j.mp/qpbN1A
2) Or horizontally like desktop websites
see on iphone http://stackoverflow.com
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Setting a giant grid of numbers on a mobile touchscreen device?
I'm trying to figure out a good way to present 96 configurable percentage values to mobile users.
These percentages represent percents of a max lift (weightlifting), and they can be broken down by ...
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Is it ok to use drop-down menus in Mobile Website?
Is it ok to use drop-down menus in a Mobile Website which opens on clicking? Like http://ux.stackexchange.com
