Questions relating to mobile computing devices, such as cell phones, tablets, and e-readers. Includes consideration for both small screen size as well as the mobile and "always on" nature of the devices.
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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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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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For touchscreen interaction, are there benefits to knowing a user's preferred hand?
The generally accepted answer to the question on Left-handed persons and usability is that rather than asking users which hand they use in order to determine your layout, you should let them choose ...
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Long select dropdowns
I'm working on a responsive landing page where users arrive after clicking on online ad. On the form, users need to select a location (105 possible) at which they would like their service. ...
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Should a mobile media app lower volume or pause?
When designing mobile media apps (specifically audio-only ones), what should they do when a notification comes in and phone volume is on?
I noticed two different behaviors on my phone - Spotify will ...
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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 do you know if something was designed mobile first?
Now I read lot of articles about mobile first design, and I understood that it's the way of design for the mobile first.
My question is, how do we know a website is designed with a mobile first ...
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Modifying images for mobile sites: scale them or cut them?
This is the first time I design a website that has a mobile version.
This is the original size of the images (well, they are a little bit bigger):
This is the size when they are displayed in ...
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Why did Google opt-out of hardware buttons for Nexus devices?
Are there any real UX reasons to remove hardware buttons from Android Nexus devices?
In above Nexus 4 the bottom part is wasted space - won't adding buttons like menu/back/home make it more ...
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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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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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Adding, Removing and Re-ordering of a large list of items for MOBILE
I am having trouble finding the best solution for the best possible user experience for Mobile. I have done a solution for desktop, but really struggling for a solution for mobile
I have a large list ...
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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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Design pattern for working with data driven lists in a mobile web app?
I am working on a data driven, mobile web app. I am not sure which way is the best for working with lists.
The data is organised in a hierarchical structure with two levels (categories and entries).
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For those who design mobile sites. Which software do you use? [closed]
I am new here and not a UX designer but an entrepreneur, so this question may come across as incredibly noobish, so forgive me.
The question was for those who design mobile sites. Eg. say a client ...
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How to best conduct a mobile app features audit?
We're redesigning a pretty heavy app and I've been tasked with creating a list of all of the current available features since they'll all need to be included in the next release. The thing is that ...
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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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Displaying package comparisons for mobile?
On my desktop website I have 3 packages listing all the features included for each package and their prices with an option to add to basket.
All packages are on the same page next to each other so ...
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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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Is speed the most important factor in mobile applications?
I've been noticing a trend when using my phone for music at work. Sites like Bandcamp have an excellent mobile site that is simple and intuitive. However, once I find a cool group on Bandcamp I end up ...
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Should I retry a manual refresh when network is available?
I have a mobile app that automatically downloads user content from the Internet according to a schedule. Sometimes it might miss a scheduled update because the device wasn't connected to the Internet ...
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Do you know any comparative resources like mobile-patterns.com [closed]
Mari Sheibley is the lead designer of foursquare and has created this awesome site comparing mobile UI patterns - for example showing how a feed page looks in different applications, etc.
I've found ...
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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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Usability assesment methods for cross-platform mobile applications
I am new to usability testing.
I want to do a usability study comparing multiple mobile applications that are made using different technologies - for example native, phonegap, appcelerator, etc.
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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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What should I use as an alternative to overlays for exposing inline information on a mobile website?
In my opinion overlays are not a good experience on mobile. But let's say you have a form, and certain fields might need clarification, how can I go about presenting this without using an overlay?
I ...
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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 pattern library with animated IxD examples? [duplicate]
Can anyone suggest a blog or pattern library that demonstrates interaction design examples? Everything I've seen to date uses static screenshots, but nothing that actually animates the interactions or ...
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Consistency in Mobile App [duplicate]
Should we maintain same design for all different native app platform? Or can we change depends on mobile design flow? Please clarify my comfussion.
Ex:
1. facebook same in both android and iphone
2. ...
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How do you nudge users to download your native app?
I was reading an ACM research paper recently that considered users' revisitation patterns. The authors found that users tend to revisit native apps far more often than they revisit pages in browsers.
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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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When is it appropriate to split functionality into separate apps?
I'm a designer and my company has a single app that serves two different types of user.
One group is the general public, who uses the app to navigate big events (e.g. annual user group meeting ...
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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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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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Handling bad network connections in a mobile app [closed]
I'm currently writing my bachelor thesis about loading data in mobile applications (native/web based).
I already searched for UX studies how to handle disconnects and slow loading of data but ...
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How to improve the smartphone keyboard layout?
I have loads of problems with the small keys on my smartphone as my fingers cover them completely. I guess most people have the same problem.
The Qwerty keyboard layout was designed for ten-finger ...
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What to display in mobile app web view when the URL won't load
I'm creating an app whose UI is simply a web browser that loads a URL. Let's not argue about why I'm implementing it this way (I already tried that with the higher-ups). It can still do the background ...
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Why do mobile video apps encourage taking short videos?
Recently there's been a rapid increase in the number of mobile video apps that limit their recording length. These are some popular examples:
Vine - 6 seconds
Viddy - 15 seconds
Keek - 35 seconds
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Back button logic
The app works with some abstract items. Those can be shown in list or on map
Bordered button in list leads to map view and vice versa, bordered button on map leads to list view.
Everything ...
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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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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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Action buttons for mobile — ok to go full width?
Is it acceptable to use full width mobile action buttons, say in the footer, like in the 1st example? It's nice and simple but I'm afraid users might mistake it for a regular footer. The 2nd example ...
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Are two separate websites useful when discussing mobile and desktop [duplicate]
I am doing an ecommerce web design that will be using a lot of images of realistic items than cant be created in CSS. One big goal I would like to do is have this site accessible through mobile ...
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What is the best pattern for showing FAQ's on a Mobile App? [closed]
What is the Right Pattern to Show Frequently asked Questions on a Mobile App. We are developing Mobile Application for HR Functions.
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Reasonable webpage file size
What sort of file size is currently reasonable for a webpage? Considering a responsive design being served to both a desktop with a high-bandwidth connection and a slow connection mobile device.
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What is the generally accepted resolution for mobile design?
So, I am a week and a half into a new project, and I've been designing for a resolution of 320px * 480px. I am new to the game and I've just found out that that resolution is too small considering the ...
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Eye Travel vs. Touchability on Mobile
If we want a user to perform a certain action, we make it easiest for them to select that option compared to any other available option.
For example, think of a pop-up ad, "Do you want to ...
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What's the best way to ask a user if they want to visit the Mobile site?
We currently have a very content heavy desktop site, and a mobile version of the site that only contains about 20% of all the content. Currently we have a server rule that redirects ALL mobile traffic ...
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UI Options for Displaying Connected Apps / Managing App Connections
I am searching hard to find a nice way to show connections/interactions between various individual apps within an app store.
This is important for two reasons:
Certain apps exist mainly to ...
