for questions about web sites designed to be viewed on mobile devices.
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How to request a third-party login within a seperate mobile application
I'm designing a mobile app that requires the user to log-in with their LinkedIn account.
I feel I might have cluttered too much info into it, but everything seems to be important.
I want the user ...
3
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1answer
452 views
Responsive Pricing Table
I am designing a simple Landing Page which has 2 lines about the product and the Pricing Table.
I want to Make a Responsive Layout for Mobile. Not sure which is the best way to display the Pricing ...
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1answer
538 views
Choosing the right resolution to target for the mobile web
I have problem with choosing the right pixel size to design for when sketching Mobile user interfaces.
I'm designing a mobile web that can be opened by different mobile devices (iPhone, Blackberry, ...
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4answers
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Should I place my menu on top of my mobile version of this showtimes website?
I'm trying to design a simple website that will show movie showtimes in a few cities. It's going to be a french website but I translated the important content in the screenshots and the website to let ...
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1answer
1k views
Does touch based mobile phone browsers support multi selection of list?
On desktop based browser application there are elements which allow us to do a multi selection, like below:
Multi Select
Is there support for this on touch-based phones? How do these kind of ...
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1answer
4k views
What is a good alternative to drop-down menus for site navigation on touch-screen/mobile devices?
We're in the process of redesigning our website, and one of the design goals is to make the site more mobile/tablet friendly.
Our current site is very large, and the navigation is somewhat ...
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3answers
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Google / Maps for Mobile Web
Does anyone have experience with embedded maps for Mobile Web? (NOT APP)
My experience is that it introduces another frame into the page with a separate set of scrolling behavior - not a good thing. ...
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6answers
1k views
Do people use `jump to top of page` links?
I'm talking about links or buttons at the bottom of the page or screen simply linking to the top of the website.
Is there any data on that?
Are they used more frequently on long pages?
What about ...
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1answer
279 views
Internal Consistency vs. Consistency across the Industry
Does anyone have any recommendations on how to balance having styles/patterns/icons being consistent to a single website vs following recommended practices/patterns/icons that are popping up across ...
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5answers
863 views
Responsive web design for e-commerce website?
I'm going to build a big e-commerce website and client want that website should be for all user Desktop, Tablets and Smartphones. and budget is not a problem. Site is an e-commerce website lost of ...
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3answers
628 views
No scrollbars for scrollable controls on iPad & iPhone
When an element contains overflowing content, there is nothing that tells the user they can scroll to see more. They have to know to try the 2 finger swipe to see if anything moves.
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4answers
3k views
Touchscreen interface for menu and dropdown menu ease of use
I'm doing webpage design using Twitter Bootstrap's dropdown menu.
Problem:
Suppose I have a horizontal menu as shown in the Twitter Bootstrap documentation. That menu bar that list pages I want to ...
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2answers
405 views
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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2answers
637 views
Responsive text or truncated text in Mobile devices?
I was reading this very interesting article on the use of responsive text to show only critical content on mobile devices by the use of responsive text to show one version for the web and one version ...
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6answers
1k views
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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3answers
503 views
What's the best way to select a suburb from a large list on a mobile device?
I need the user to select the suburb that they live in. It's no good just entering any old text, it has to match one of the suburbs in my database.
My current implementation is an auto-complete text ...
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3answers
2k views
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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3answers
250 views
If all pages are linked in a menu, should a back button be provided?
If full navigation is provided for every page of a simple site, should there be a back button among its options?
Example Scenario:
A mobile website has 4 child pages, all accessible via navigation on ...
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3answers
1k views
Pixel aspect ratio for multiple touch devices- Mobile Web
I'm working on a project involving multiple mobile and tablet web application designing. I'm curious what are the mobile design strategies when it comes to handling pixel aspect ratio for icons and ...
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291 views
Is it ok for a mobile site to be a limited subset of the full site?
I'm working on yet another time-tracking web application. This application has, next to the normal site, a mobile version. Now I wonder, is it ok for the mobile version to be a limited subset of the ...
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1answer
152 views
Separate app for touch devices or one universal?
We have a web mapping application (front end is all Flex) that has been designed with the keyboard and mouse in mind.
It is similar to a desktop based app, (think Photoshop) with toolbars, tables, ...
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1answer
227 views
Diagonal Scrolling rationale [closed]
I m trying to find rationale for implementation of horizontal scrolling on a mobile web browser for a table. The following are the one's I could think of, if you have any other rationale in mind or ...
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Breadcrumbs: ok to use on mobile site?
Wondering if anyone has thoughts on using breadcrumbs as a method of navigation on a mobile website (for a content site). The breadcrumbs would show the heirarchy of the site as such:
Site >> ...
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4answers
629 views
How can I display forum paging on a mobile UI in a more pleasant way?
I am having a problem trying to find out how to display the page numbers on a forum in a pleasant way.
Please look at the picture below:
As the picture shows, the page numbers appear to the right ...
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2answers
283 views
Need for search button next to a search box on a mobile web site
Do you need a search button next to a search box on a mobile website? On the iPhone for example the Enter button appears next to the standard ios5 ui keyboard.
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3answers
154 views
Branding websites aimed for mobile devices
I'm currently working on a website which is also supposed to be mobile optimized.
My client has provided me with a layout of how the mobile version of how the website should look like. Making their ...
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2answers
318 views
What should be the maximum length of a page on Mobile Website?
What should be the maximum length of a page on Mobile Website? I'm making a website in which some pages are long because of lengthy articles. Should I divide long pages into multiple pages?
Should I ...
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2answers
622 views
Automatic redirect to mobilesite - Best practice
What if the user really wants to access the website rather than the mobilesite?
The solution I'm thinking of is this:
Having a special root page on the domain http://example.com. Here I detect when ...
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8answers
2k views
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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5answers
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What's the best way to implement product comparison on a mobile web site?
I have found only one example of this so far (Best Buy) and it is not very well executed. I'm wondering if there are any good examples of mobile sites that allow product comparisons, or if perhaps ...
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1answer
207 views
Search input on mobile device
I'm designing an mobile-web-app (ie: not a native app) for touchscreen smartphones.
When you add a search input, do we need to add the search button (for processing the search) or use the one present ...
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1answer
231 views
Can this double picker be achieved by a web app (not a native app)?
Can this double picker be achieved by a web app in HTML (not a native app)?
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297 views
Should we delay the website launch to work on improving user experience and accessibility?
Should we delay the Website launch to make it more and more better for User Experience and accessible, Is there any limit?
I was making a website and i tried to make it as good as possible for better ...
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3answers
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Is it good to leave Select dropdown with default style for better UX and Accessibility?
When I design websites. many time I try make the select drop-down more attractive.
example
By default select drop-down looks slightly different in almost each Desktop and Mobile browser
but ...
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2answers
189 views
Question on fluid web design
There are 2 ways in which we can implement a fluid design (one that would adjust itself to the screen size on which it is viewed on);
Approach 1: We can just use the available browser size (or ...
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6answers
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Should we always make every Link/Button atleast 44X44 size in Mobile site, According to iOS Human Interface Guidelines?
According to iOS Human Interface Guidelines
The comfortable minimum size of tappable UI elements is 44 x 44
points.
Should we follow this rule for Every link on Mobile Website for better ...
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1answer
907 views
Which type of url should I use for a mobile website?
Question 1
Should we give the access to mobile version to all users on desktop. by having a differetn url like http://m.yahoo.com/or it's good to keep mobile version and desktop version access only ...
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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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5answers
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Do you design/develop a site primarily for the laptop/desktop and think about mobile later?
Do you design/develop a site primarily for the laptop/desktop and think about mobile later, or do you design your website to be mobile and unmobile friendly, therefore cutting design/dev time in half? ...
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1answer
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Can a mobile app (not native app!) be forced portrait or landscape? [closed]
My client wants his mobile app (not a native iPhone/Android app) to be portrait only. Can this be forced by HTML/JavaScript?
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In a Mobile Website if a Javascript can enhance UX but will make the page little slower to load, is it ok to do that?
In a Mobile Website if a JavaScript can enhance UX but will make the page little slower to load, is it ok to use javascript?
Or we should always give preference to speed specially on mobile?
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2answers
976 views
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
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2answers
554 views
Is it better to provide different layout for Landscape and Portrait orientations in iPad Websites? or Same layout is fine
Like BBC and many other websites iPad shrink every element of layout to fit into Portrait mode automatically? Is it ok?
Or we should make the change in layout to reduce/remove/replace the items ...
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3answers
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Should we give a Site-map page in Mobile Websites?
I noticed Mobile website's are not having site-map page? Is there any reason behind it?
Should we give a Site-map page in Mobile Websites?
Can it be useful?
I think user can see the sitemap page ...
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3answers
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File manager on a mobile device
I've termed the question "File manager" because it most closely relates to what I am looking for. This question is for a mobile web application but as it is a UX/UI design question any native app ...
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6answers
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In mobile website when we use “Back” button then should it be always the titled as “Back”?
If we use Back button in website inner pages should we always use the text Back all the time or we should use the title of the last page. But title of last page can be longer than
Back
For example
...
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4answers
555 views
Is it good to hide url bar from Mobile websites?
Is it good to hide url bar from Mobile websites?
By default it shows. but there are some JavaScript tricks which can hide the bar on page load. but user can get back by dragging from top.
For a ...
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2answers
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Is it good or bad for user to give a feel and look of native apps to Website for mobile?
Is it good or bad for user to give a feel and look of native apps to Website for mobile?
Transition effects on page change
Fixed floating footer or header
Hide address bar
Native app like UI
or ...
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1answer
1k views
Hover state on mobile: Does this sync interaction design on the web and mobile?
I read this news article a while back about apple patenting a touch screen technology that would allow for a hover state. Ever since I have been thinking a lot about how that might effect the mobile ...
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What's the appropriate way using desktop like notifications in a webapp (chrome notification feature)
I'm planning to use Chrome's notifications feature.
I want to show important informations on the notifications.
My "users" are highly qualified technical persons, so i think it's good idea.
But not so ...
