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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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Is shaking a device to refresh an accepted behavior?
I have an app that displays downloaded information that is cached. I could use valuable space to include a button that is used to re-download the information, or I could simply add a "shake the device ...
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Default Android input field styling
I have been showing a prototype of my app to a few people and am surprised by how many of them don't know where to type.
The main screen has three input fields and a search button.
I'm talking about ...
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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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Mobile navigation
A responsive approach has been taken to the current project I am working on. It is a corporate website with 3 levels of navigation. Attached is an example of the solution I have come up with for drop ...
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Clear selection in Android
When using standard Android apps (like Gmail) which have multiple items to select, a contextual action bar (CAB) comes up showing a checkmark (tick) and some other information (such as "3 selected").
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For mobile apps, is it “best” to load data before transitioning screens?
In a mobile application you almost always make some sort of api call to fetch data to populate view elements on a screen. Say I am on a home screen (screen A) and want to transition to a profile ...
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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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loading new view from which direction ? L2R or R2L?
I've been developing mobile apps using sencha touch for quite a time now. In that, whenever a new view is to be loaded, default animation direction is from Right-to-Left. This can be seen in android ...
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Prefer buttons over text links when designing for mobile?
When designing for mobile, should one prefer buttons over text links whenever possible?
I'm guessing buttons are better at encouraging tapping, whereas text links are increasingly becoming associated ...
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What are good online resources for testing designs of an IPhone app? [closed]
I am looking for a tool/website that I can use to test my IPhone designs on my current users, I'd like this tool/website to upload my new designs and have a dedicated link where I can share it with my ...
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Should actions that leave your app require confirmation?
Our app has a 'Facebook' button that opens another user's facebook profile.
Based on the assumptions that: most people who network also have higher facebook privacy settings, and also people who use ...
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UX considerations for interactive mobile maps?
Embedding a mapping service like Google Maps into a website is pretty easy (i.e. using their API, which has recently been updated for mobile performance).
What are the most important UX ...
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4answers
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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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3answers
531 views
Android: Back Button Only vs. Extra Navigation
General UX question for Android:
Assume a simple view (activity or fragment) hierarchy, like so: A --> B. The transition from A to B is added to Android's back stack.
On screen B, is it best to ...
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3answers
137 views
iPhone - Hiding/showing a common Carousel view
I have a Carousel view (horizontally aligned images, can be swiped left/right to switch images) above a Table view that displays some information.
Assuming I'd like to give the user the option to ...
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Mobile app UI state restoration in relation to the length of inactivity time
A common guideline for mobile apps is that they should be built to accommodate interruption, and that the app should be restored after interruption to the last state that the user was in. For example, ...
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Have controls fade out on scroll?
Background
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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1answer
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Overriding Default Behavior of Mobile Browsers
In desktop web development, a big user experience no-no is to create a behavior that is not native to the browser. Such as:
Disabling the right-click mouse button
Creating your own context menu
Not ...
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2answers
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Inviting users to send crash reports instead of bad reviews
I'm developing an Android app and I'm planning to use ACRA - Application Crash Report for Android to get crash reports from users.
It seems that a crash report has to survive to many user choices to ...
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2answers
286 views
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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1answer
687 views
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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How do you show non-affordance?
There is a tendency to use badges or status images to show information, but very often these badges look like other items which you interact with, such as buttons.
There is a lot of information on ...
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5answers
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Why isn't a keyboard in alphabetic order?
Mobile Phone Keyboard Redesign
A normal keyboard way designed to be typed with both hands, ten fingers.
A mobile phone Keyboard was just a copy.
Using Fitts law, I think the mobile phone keyboard ...
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2answers
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Should an image carousel on a mobile site automatically rotate?
Or should the user have complete control? The intention is to have a slider/carousel that shows 6 or 7 images which the user can look through by clicking arrow buttons left or right. But the question ...
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2answers
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The calculator app question: preventing users from entering illegal input
I know there are a number of ways to prevent users from entering illegal input: disabling buttons, showing warnings, and other solutions that fit the domain of the problem. However, the usual ...
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1answer
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Bus Ticket Booking Form - Mobile
While designing a Bus booking site - i was thinking on the number of inputs i will require for searching all the buses between two routes.
The Web version contains these forms
One Way/ Round Trip ...
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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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2answers
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How to choose colors wisely to work with Low brightness and contrast screens?
In Mobile Phone and Tablets to save battery many people (Including me) keep brightness and contrast low. And sometime it makes harder to read if color scheme is not good.
So my question is how to ...
