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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What are examples of mobile user profiles? [closed]
I'm working on a mobile application which needs a user profile page.
I've tried to find mobile apps with user profiles (like the one in this site), but so far all of them have been read only. To ...
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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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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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Setting a giant grid of numbers on a mobile touchscreen device?
I'm trying to figure out a good way to present 96 configurable percentage values to mobile users.
These percentages represent percents of a max lift (weightlifting), and they can be broken down by ...
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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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Ill behaved smartphones or snobby users?
I'm receiving emails and I'm seeing messages on some websites that say something like 'Posted from my [smartphone]'.
I don't have a smartphone (yet), so I don't know if the message configuration is ...
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Icon for “More”, like more results [closed]
I need an intuitive icon which represents "more" ITEMS (or "more items like this") (or other "similar" items to this item). I have space constraints on the screen, so I can't exactly use a label.
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Two buttons next to each other in a mobile navbar
I have a UX issue which would be simpler to solve if I had to buttons next to each other in the navbar for a mobile device.
In the images below I'm referring to the buttons marked 1 and 2. 2 Will in ...
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How to show that a bar is loading?
I'm building a game.
Each character has an energy bar. It's red when it's in the low, and green when it's full.
I'd like to make it obvious for the user to see that the bar is progressing ( getting ...
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Are there any survey tools that are optimized to render correctly on mobile devices? [closed]
My company would like to run a NPS survey off of our Mobile experience (app and website), are there any tools that will work well with mobile screens? We use Vovici, cvent and surveymonkey in house ...
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Usage of darker shade to show selected/focused button
Consider that I am creating an interface for a mobile app which shows a list of buttons on the main screen. I can move through the buttons using mobile keypad (feature phones) or screen touch (smart ...
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Menu in right sidebar vs left sidebar
What do you think, is it better for handheld device users to use site menu when its in right sidebar (can click it with thumb/right hand doesnt block view when user click on menu item)?
The reason i ...
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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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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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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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Why would a key icon not a padlock icon be used to indicate a device keypad is locked?
My cell phone when its keypad is locked (so that it ignores keypresses) displays a small picture of a key on the display. I find it rather confusing - IMO it should be a picture of a padlock which is ...
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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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What's the point in electronic devices beeping on keypress?
Many electronic devices, mostly cell phones, by default beep on keypress. What's the point in that?
Once a key is pressed their state is changed and that's reflected in the graphic interface anyway. ...
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How to present heavy data tables on smartphones?
Problem: I've got a table with 10 columns and ~100 rows. What is the best way to present these on small screens? My idea: effective search + data displayed row-by-row. Is there any better solution?
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What's the most efficient/least troublesome way to scroll when reading on mobile?
For reading purposes on mobile devices, what is the way to go? Paging or scrolling? If I want to give the reader the option of a scroll, should the controls for that be on-screen or in a menu?
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Tell mobile users that there is an app available
Some people come to my website with their phones or tablets. I would like to convert these web users to use my app instead. What would be the best practice to advertise the app?
A modal popup.
A ...
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Duplicate information vs. proximity in mobile apps
In the mobile app we are currently working on, we have a table view that shows certain information. When you press any of the cells, another view shows expanding the info. The regular behavior pretty ...
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A workable tag auto-suggestion design for mobile devices
Over at Stack Exchange we (fairly) recently rolled out a mobile design for all of our sites. This was definitely a 1.0 attempt, and while I think it's a huge improvement over what we had (which was ...
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Is swipe gesture in Mobile Application distracting users with vertical scroling page ?
Normally Vertical scrolling page that used with up-down gesture for Mobile Application to browse data but also have next page to browse too
Example of Sitemap
Categories (Table List of ...
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How can I distinguish two different types of buttons, without using labels everywhere?
I'm developing an application to count traffic at intersections. There will be two different types of buttons:
one to count trucks ("lkw" is the german abbreviation for a truck)
one to count cars ...
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title placement in mobile apps
What's best practice for placing page titles in mobile development?
In jquerymobile it looks like header is great placement, however titles can be long (ecommerce products), and because they're ...
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How should the sign-up page for a mobile website work?
How should the sign-up page for a mobile website be?
For example:-
Does repeat password make more sense or less on mobile version of a website. To put it differently, are users more prone to make a ...
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Mobile Help overlays
We are looking at creating some help screens for a mobile application. These will guide novice users through the interactions required.
My question is: when required to show some content on the ...
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Customizing iPhone app's navigation bar with custom typeface?
I'm currently designing my first iPhone application, and I've decided to go with a UI using the default UIKit controls, but customized with my own colors and textures.
One area where I'm having ...
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iPhone like UI for Desktop apps
Is there any reason why an iPhone like UI paradigms shouldn't be adopted while designing a desktop application? Let's say you're developing a windows application, can you not use something similar to ...
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Should I use a Dashboard for a mobile website
Should I use a Dashboard, in the style of an app, for the mobile version of a website? Is it considered a good or bad practice?
There is some images associated with the news feed on the home pages of ...
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How should I name the paid app VS unpaid app on mobile devices?
I will be releasing a paid and unpaid version of my app on iPhone and Android. How should I name these two versions? Some popular choices I've seen are:
Namezilla Free + Namezilla
Namezilla Lite + ...
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Tips & resources for Mobile UX designer coming from Web UX
Mobile UX is a whole new world, specially apps. Over my past experience I got deeper & deeper into how browsers work & finally build an experience around it.
I agree some fundamentals would ...
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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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Why don't mobile apps have a 'close' button?
I'm a fairly new user of Android and i'm annoyed by the fact that almost all apps lack a "close" button.
Is there any reason why developers don't make such an option?
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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 ...
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Need some ideas on how to let the user choose level pack, then a particular level on a mobile platform
For an Android application, the user is to select a group of levels, and then a particular level within that group. The phone orientation is to be held in landscape (e.g. sideways). What do you think ...
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Should we provide “back” button for mobile website?
In mobile website for all smartphones (iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Windows phone 7), should I provide a "Back" button inside the webpage even when the browser has functionality to go to back?
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How do you map the flow of a mobile application? Can you provide examples?
I'm currently working on the IA/UX for a mobile application and as I'm mapping it out it doesn't seem like a traditional site map makes sense nor does a flowchart. Can anyone point me to a good set of ...
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Are QR codes used? Alternatives?
I know that QR codes are used a lot in some cultures (e.g. Japan) but are there any statistics on world wide and/or country specific usage? To be honest, I've never seen anybody use a QR code where I ...
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Navigation bar necessary for mobile app with no hiearchy?
In iPhone UI development, we have this design pattern of putting the current location in the UINavigationBar. When you first open the app, it will generally show the company logo. As you navigate, the ...
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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 are some tools to monitor user interaction in mobile apps? [closed]
What tools and services are available for monitoring user interaction in a running mobile (iOS) app? Is there a way to monitor users taps, time spent in between taps etc?
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When should a mobile app have only one orientation?
Under what circumstances should a mobile app only have one orientation? That is, when you flip your phone landscape or portrait, the view does not adjust. Why did the following two iPhone apps force ...
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Is using a house-shaped home icon deprecated? (for mobile)
I'm working on a mobile site and am wondering if a small icon in the shape of a house is sufficient to function as a "back to home" style link. This feels very "web 1995" but I still see it today and ...
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Password field in cleartext
I'm building a mobile web app that will request a bunch of information from the user (name, dob, address, etc) and am trying to cut down as much fields as I can.
I've noticed a new trend where mobile ...
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Do you know of any mobile websites that allows a user to crop a photo for uploading?
I'm curious to see how designers have addressed this problem on a touch-screen device given the size and technical constraints of mobile.
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Is it good or bad to follow iPhone native look and feel in design of mobile Websites?
Is it good or bad to follow iPhone native look and feel in design of mobile Websites?
I'm making Mobile website for Smartphones (iPhone, iPod Touch, Android, BlackBerry, Windows 7 Mobile) but the UI ...
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Is “search” really used on blogs?
I'm working on a a blog (which includes a mobile version), and I am not sure how useful a "search" button / box would be - especially on the mobile version. I can think of how it could be useful, but ...
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Using mobile design elements for standard web pages?
I'm a big fan of minimalist design and really like the efficiency and layout of sites and apps designed for mobile devices (Tripit.com comes to mind). I often find myself trying to incorporate similar ...
