for questions about web sites designed to be viewed on mobile devices.
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Is it appropriate to detect the user address details from mobile service provider for banking site on mobile/tablet
I am in phase of researching different approaches for designing saving bank account opening from phone/tablet. It will be a combination of responsive and adaptive layouts.
The challenge we have is ...
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Automatically clear cache from scripts
I received a request to implement browser clear cache automatically when a user starts a session. This is the first time I encounter such a odd request.
Is clear browser cache for a web application ...
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Best table pagination pattern for a mobile browser experience
The dominant UI pattern for pagination involves a list of numbers.
<< First < Prev 1... 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ...27 Next > Last >>
sometimes including a "+10" link, and/or a "jump to" ...
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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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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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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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Confirm message or separate vote buttons?
There is a website similar to reddit where users can write messages, and vote them.
Due technical reasons, when a user votes a message, their vote cannot be undone.
The problem is that in mobile ...
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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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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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When designing a responsive layout is it right to assume the iPad layout will be the same as the desktop?
When designing responsive layouts I tend to do 2 sets of wireframes. I design for both mobile and desktop and assume that the iPad will adopt the same layout as the desktop due to size. ( this is if ...
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2answers
226 views
Side panel navigation default on or off
I'm designing a web app specifically for all tablet traffic.
I'm going with the very popular left side panel navigation like youtube,fb etc.
The icon to open/close the navigation is the standard icon ...
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451 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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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
974 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
725 views
Would it be better to show a calendar picker by default instead of an input field with pop-up date picker?
On a travel site which is for Desktop, iPhone, iPad too, would it be better for UX and Accessibility to show the calendar itself on page by default
Like this
Or the most popular way, a input box ...
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mobile first design - main navigation placement & considering desktop users too
I'm considering placement of the main navigation for a responsive site in a thin sidebar similar to the navigation on Twitter's iPad app, as seen on the left.
However with the icons and links ...
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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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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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Which share icon is the right one? Or should it adapt?
this is not a question regarding a particular problem, it's rather asking for your opinion. Let's say we have a website. It is not visited significantly more often by users of any of the fractions, so ...
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256 views
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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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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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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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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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 ...
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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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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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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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What is a good way to allow a user to enter in many rows of data?
I am working on a request system for overtime. The first 4 fields are required, the Dept, Project and Job field are normally optional, but are there to allow the person to enter values as needed, ...
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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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How to enter a number from a range on a mobile web app?
I'm designing a web app for smartphones that allows the user to enter some numbers within a large range (say 0-511 or 0-1023). The numbers are exact and equally likely to be spread across the whole ...
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903 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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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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On Mobile Web, what's the best way to present Date of Birth form fields?
I am building a form for Mobile Web that requires users to enter in their DOB.
What is the best way to present the date input field(s)?
Some of the following options were identified in this question ...
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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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carousel in responsive site - should I keep or remove the navigation arrows?
I'm designing a responsive website and I have a question about the carousel element I have in the site:
the carousel has right and left arrows < content_content_content > that reveals previous and ...
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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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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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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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Answering a closed question with a time limit on a smartphone?
For an app that displays a closed question on a smartphone and lets the user pick her answer within a time limit what would be more enjoyable for the user?
Q1. The user can keep changing her mind ...
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How many photos should be in a slideshow for mobile on page load?
We have a slideshow which displays one photo at a time. The user can click or swipe through back and forth. Right now we're loading in 10 to start, but there is no actual research behind the decision.
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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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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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Are users really more comfortable with mobile-friendly web-app versions?
I'm trying to better evaluate the added value my users will receive from a web-app and would like to hear from your experiences and researches in the field.
Currently, although the application ...
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What info to put on a mobile app info site (2.5 min average site visit)
I'm building a mobile - optimized website for my iPhone app. The app is intended to help people with mood disorders, like depression and bipolar to track their moods, events in their life as well as ...
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Is there a standard name for ios-style cross-sliding lists? [closed]
I'm googling around for a javascript implementation of ios-style nested <ul>'s. I'm simply talking about the extremely common navigation where you tap a list item (usually with an arrow next to ...
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Smartphone question web app - limit character count and answer count or not?
In an app that allows a user to ask a closed question (with a limited set of answers) and get statistics on answers chosen by her audience, should the question length be limited? Should the amount of ...
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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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Pagination on desktop version of website, but not on mobile version?
The New York Times articles are paginated in the desktop view, but on the mobile site there's no pagination at all. (you can try it with this simulator)
What could be the reasons behind this ...
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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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How is the HTML5 date input type presented on different Mobile browsers?
I am building a form for Mobile Web that requires users to enter in their DOB.
I'm interested in how it is presented across different mobile OSes and browsers as I understand support is patchy.
Is ...
