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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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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Name of this semi ubiquitous pattern in Google Now search field?
With Android JellyBean, Google introduced Google Now, which is a fantastic addition in itself as far as I'm concerned.
One interesting feature usability wise, something that dmh pointed out in a ...
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Are there any conventions for mobile behavior when swiping left/right?
I'm working on a new platform for mobile.
In this platform, the gesture of swiping left (from right to left) acts differently in different contexts.
On an object (a rectangle with details) it opens ...
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How to do a mobile field test?
The Smartphone have become a part of our daily life. Users are always online and use their Smartphone in very different environments. Smartphones are sometimes used in a calm, not distracting ...
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What would this widget be called?
What is this control that is used to select an item in this screenshot called?
This is also in the latest Facebook for Android update. What is it called?
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Banner Ad placement in a mobile app
Where should you put banner advertising in a mobile app?
Specifically take this mockup for example.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A8HcBC7CQAEuQnd.png:large
Above title? Below title?
Below navbar? ...
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How to display a rotator / carousel in a responsive website when shown on a mobile
I'm working on a responsive wireframe and the desktop version has a feature area rotator.
On the desktop site, it just has arrows and I worry that that will make navigating the rotator difficult on ...
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eLearning: Courses on Usability, UI, UX, or XD? [closed]
Considering User Experience Stack Exchange is in itself an educational tool, creating infomation hubs geared to different personas and users is no longer a tedious task. What are the applications, ...
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Mobile app considering ecology - is it possible to blend light green into calm scheme?
At workplace I was asked to design the interface for mobile application (for tablets and mobile phones). I'm not a professional designer so I got stuck already with the colour scheme.
This ...
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Are Network online/offline indicators necessary for Mobile apps?
I'm beginning work on an app and one of the requirements is that there be some visual indicator for the user that displays their devices' connectivity status. I'm wondering if there is any research on ...
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Essential input elements of a gui toolkit
I am in a process of designing a new toolkit for mobile devices (as a part of my Master's thesis). I would like to know if there is some theoretical backgroud (researches, books, tutorials, etc...) to ...
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Is there research that shows that users don't like typing on virtual keyboards?
A widespread assumption among UX professionals says that users are not keen to use the virtual keyboard. Guidelines for mobile UX recommend to minimise text entry, suggest that typing holds back the ...
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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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Displaying a large data table in a mobile app
Does anyone have any suggestions for displaying a large data table in a mobile app? Some of the columns (the ones that are underlined) need to be able to be sorted when clicked.
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Representing how many you have with how many they want
I have a problem whereby we are asking a user for multiple items. This is in a gaming scenario and the game has lots of items. Each item is manufactured from other items and is only counted once it ...
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How to provide good mobile phone number verification? [closed]
I'd like to know if there is a way to achieve a good user experience when a user's profile contains a mobile number which needs to be verified via SMS.
The examples I have explored had the mobile ...
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How to solve overly deep hierarchy navigation on mobile device?
I’m reading Jakobs Nielsens new mobile usability book.
There is an example of a mobile site that suffers from an overly deep hierarchy (5 levels in total)
In the example users need to navigate through ...
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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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How to best enter long digits on a small touch device without using keyboard input
my current task is to create an user interface for a mobile strategy game. stuff can be transported from point a to point b. the user can select an amount of stuff between 1 and 1.000.000. it is ...
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What should an Android version of a multi-step modal view look like?
For an iOS app I'm working on, there is an important full-screen multi-step modal view used for certain key actions. The user is looking at a bunch of payees she can pay. She can tap a button to add ...
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Can you explain the Up button behaviour in Google Play
According to the official Android design guidelines, the Up button should take the user one level up in the app hierarchy: http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/navigation.html
I have a ...
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Best practices for scrolling and navigation on touch interfaces: horizontal vs vertical
It's well known that on traditional (mouse/keyboard) interfaces horizontal scrolling goes against user expectations, however in touch devices the matter is not so clear.
Are there any best practices, ...
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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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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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when designing an app for both Android and iPhone, should the user interface be the same?
When designing a mobile app for use on both iPhone and Android, should you make the UI the same on both platforms? Why or why not?
I have thought about this a bit. To some extent, this entails more ...
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ZTE MF820 or HUAWEI E392 mobile modem? [closed]
I am looking for mobile modem to my computer. I have two candidates: zte mf820 and HUAWEI E392.
So, what are difference between G4 and LTE G4 ?
ZTE MF820
LTE DL up to 100Mbps
LTE UL up to 50Mbps
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Horizontal scrolling of a small area on a desktop website
It seems that a new design patterns is becoming more popular in mobile apps. If you look at the latest release of the App Store they use a horizontal swipe pattern in order to navigate through various ...
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Prototyping tool for mobile/tablet [closed]
Is there any interactive prototyping tool for creating low to high fidelity for tablets and mobile where the tool generates html output.
I came across this tool(http://www.justinmind.com/) which ...
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What can be an alternative to tabs in an iphone or android application
What type of a design/design philosophy/gesture can be a good alternative to tabs in an iphone or an android application? Tabs are good and tell the user that there is another ...
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Navigation on a desktop website targeting mobile-friendly users
More and more people are browsing the web primarily from their mobile devices; similarly, most young people use their phone as their main browsing device.
I'm part of the generation who grew up with ...
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Swipe direction for read document on iPad
Is there any recommendation about the direction of swipe for an app that allow user to read PDF documents? I mean if I have to chose is better the up/down or the left/right swipe?
In my own ...
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How do I present on/off indicators without leading users to believe they are buttons?
We are in the process of designing a mobile application for an Android device. It is a requirement that we have indicators for whether a function is turned on or off across the top of the screen (e.g. ...
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Should I stick to Google's Android UI Design Patterns or not?
Both the official Twitter application and Facebook application use a similar set of UI design patterns in their apps. These patterns were set out by google themselves in this blog post. The thing is ...
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where can I find an app styleguide?
I am creating a mobile styleguide that will make it easier for other departments to design apps similarly - not totally the same as in using the same template. Eg. using standard colors in jewels, ...
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Using different calls to action between platforms… Should cross-channel UX always be consistent? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is breaking established web conventions in order to be consistent across multiple devices an unexpected (and therefore harmful) user experience?
I’ve always advocated ...
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iPhone table view filter with multiple controls
Assume we have a real-estate iPhone app which shows a list of properties in a table view.
I would like to offer the user the ability to filter the list according to about 6-7 different criteria.
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What solutions are there for a date picker on a responsive website? [closed]
We're working on a website that is responsive.
So my question is: What about datepickers. If we choose normal datepickers
Jquery Mobile date pickers don't look good on the full blow template.
And ...
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What are the conventions for how often a user should be asked to log into a mobile application?
Or put another way - is there a process for deciding how long a user's authenticated session should last?
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Where can I find statistics on the use of mobile app features?
I am looking for academic research that investigates how frequently Set as wallpaper and Delete functions are used in image viewer applications on mobile devices (to defend their inclusion in a list ...
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Mobile UI design feedback [closed]
This is the first mockup of a Pill Reminder iOS app. A few elements are not designed yet, such as the tab bar items. Any feedback/advice is appreciated!
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How can I indicate that images can be clicked on a mobile site?
I've created a mobile site with a portfolio page. On the desktop version, hovering the mouse over the images changes the mouse pointer to a finger indicating the image is hyperlinked.
To try to get ...
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Mobile search: Should variables be separated with a comma or space?
We run a financial site where visitors will be inserting multiple company codes in order in order to compare prices. Should we expect visitors to type.
aaa, bbb, ccc (comma separated)
aaa bbb ccc ...
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Indicate tappable area on mobile
I am creating a mobile application that can be used as a counter. This app would be implemented in full-touchscreen phones. Here is part of the screen:
I want to indicate that users can either tap ...
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Is switching to a selectbox navigation for mobile devices a good solution for complex menus?
An example of this functionality can be found in this site (shrink the browser viewport to see the selectbox navigation take over.)
Is this a good practice? Wondering if anyone has any experience to ...
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What control flow can replace vertical (or horizontal) scrolling lists?
Assume a list (timeline) like you have in a mobile app like Path, Google+ or Facebook. The list is heterogeneous, the list items may be
photos
links (expanded snippets)
texts (status updates)
and ...
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Using a virtual joystick for a game?
Many games for touchscreen mobile devices use virtual joysticks for movement. This has many issues:
You can't see/feel where the joystick is pointing when you are using it.
You can't feel where the ...
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Is there a better solution than breadcrumbs to cascading categories on mobile?
I am working on a mobile application (Android ICS based) where I need to show a lot of products on screen. Now the products are categorized in several categories which are on X level, where X is ...
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What is the relation of the category/type of a mobile app to its color?
What is the correlation between an app's category (food and drink, social networking, financial, etc.) and the color scheme it uses?
Are there any solid, researched-backed reasons behind choosing ...
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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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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 ...
