Questions tagged [mobile]
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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Are there studies on in-app user feedback?
I'm considering to ask users in app for feedback on a specific feature, right after they used it. The goal is to have a) quantitative feedback on the feature and b) a list of comments from step 3 ...
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How to add other info to main page of mobile app?
This is what our app looks like:
For each row I would like to add the amenities for the particular gas station (ie. "parking", "bathroom", etc). For example, "Rocket Fuel" has parking, bathroom, and ...
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Material: Hamburger Menu and Navigation
We're currently thinking about our hamburger menu and the navigation in our app. Here's an example using the Drive app:
This is the Drive app when opening it from the launcher.
This is the menu, now ...
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Why mockup doesn’t look crisp in iphone? [on hold]
I created a mockup of an iphone app in Adobe Fireworks. Once done, I copied the png file to my iphone.
When I look at the image in my iphone (like a regular picture) it doesn’t look crisp like other ...
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Persistent textfield hint on input - Bad UX?
In my app users get suggestions for things they can put on their list of so called "self-affirmations", things that you read out to yourself to improve etc.
Background: It's been scientifically ...
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What is the best mobile keyboard for alphanumeric input type?
I need to set the most user-friendly keyboard for anyone who enters his car's license plate number.
In the country I develop for, those are alphanumeric (I don't know any country where they're not, ...
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What are the best ways on a sub-500 budget to test for mobile accessibility?
I am familiar with website accessibility at least in terms of WCAG 2.0, Section 508, etc. But I am currently designing a mobile app (cross-platform using React Native tools) and there does not seem to ...
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Best way to implement breadcrumbs on mobile [duplicate]
I would like to know about the use of breadcrumbs on mobile, is it a feasible practice today?
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Condensing buttons or spreading them out on mobile
Designing an app with a map feature which has to contain two separate buttons for layer changing and location finding. Originally had the two button on the bottom right, for easy access for the thumb ...
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What should the summary count on an “active filter” button be representing?
Often, in facetted filtering experiences, on mobile, the filters are tucked offscreen. To indicate that the current view is being filtered, often the filter button is presented with a number ...
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Design patterns for switching workspaces on mobile
I'm working on a mobile responsive web-app whose users can potentially have one, two, or three workspaces (we call them "zones") depending on their user privileges, i.e. Admins get all three zones ...
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Usage of table layout on Mobile
Is there any better way to show Normal table layout in the Desktop views and easy to use view of the same in Mobile?
In an environment that the table columns and rows can be multiple number of rows ...
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Should a user know at all times his filtering preferences?
I'm currently developing an app which shows you ads near you. In order to make sure an user gets what he is looking for he can filter his ads. Should an user see those filter preferences at all time, ...
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Offline logout of mobile application and receiving notifications
I am siting in a bit of a predicament and cannot find a information about a solution to the predicament on the internet even though I'm sure that someone would have encountered it.
The problem if ...
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Should we keep images on a Lite app in the food delivery domain
I am doing an exercise to construct a 'lite' mobile app version of an existing food delivery mobile app. I was wondering if it makes sense to show the images of the food items on the app or to remove ...
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FinTech mobile and customer account lists [closed]
I am looking for best practice recommendations on how to categorize and display customer accounts (DDAs) in selection lists. Considering active and inactive, internal and external, and giving ...
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button size bootstrap framework [duplicate]
in my project im using bootstrap, and the project is to use in a different devices.
I think btn-sm is so much small to mobile device, have some rule to determine the size of the buttons?
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Does changing colors to visualize different categories make sense?
In order to show more information in as little space as possible I thought of changing the gradient that's underneath depending on the category of the ad. Purple to pink gradients show services and ...
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UI controls during full screen reading
Part of the app is to read a longer text, so users have the choice to view it in a full-screen reading mode. Mainly targeted device is smartphone, not tablet.
I have two important controls here, ...
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Top level Nav Dropdowns and/or Pages
my challenge is to have top-level navigation items that have subnavigation and are also clickable as they are the parent pages to the sub nav
So let's say top navigation items; One, Two and Three. ...
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What is the technical name for the “Tap to translate” button from GoogleTranslate app?
When copying some text on Android, Google Translate displays a floating button on the side of the screen (top / right) that can be tapped to translate or just dragged up and down to not be obstructive....
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Input fields - Is <input type phone> more user friendly for credit cards than <input type number>?
Basically this question, but with more usability focus:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48534229/what-is-the-correct-input-type-for-credit-card-numbers
So we have these two general keyboard ...
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Do *ALL* mobile/touch browsers have “invisible” scrollbars in scrollable areas?
Usually in browsers in touch devices, in scrollable areas, a scrollbar only appears when a user touches it and starts scrolling by moving their finger (in some it never appears at all).
Is this ...
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Best practice to combine sub-category selection and drilldown in Mobile navigation
I'm working on a mobile application that allows selection of a category on one of its screens. For example:
There can be more than 2 levels in the hierarchy and the amount of items is not limited ...
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Card Design - Layout
My mobile application has 6 cards. At any given time the user would view only one card. However, the user has an option to swipe left/right and view a different card.
I am having a hard time deciding ...
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What is best way to display a partial mobile number
Refer following links:
https://www.karansaini.com/fuzzing-obfuscated-phone-numbers/
https://www.alldigitaltricks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/kotak-bank-change-mobile-netbanking.png
https://www....
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How to adapt text and/or elements size while designing to smaller screens?
I have a layout I made some time ago on Adobe XD (that was just a personal project) and now I wanna put it on Behance. To do so, I need to duplicate/adapt that layout (designed for desktop) to smaller ...
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Absence planner - UX thoughts and recommendations
I hope you all have some nice Christmas days.
I'm currently working on a new and responsive version of our company absence planner using Googles Material Design. As I build it from scratch I would ...
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By showing less information am I letting the user focus on that information more?
So, currently I'm developing an app which shows you ads nears you, if you are interested you swipe right if you are not you swipe left.
Initially, in my first prototype of the app I tried an infinite ...
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How to show the user multiple options and make sure they understand they don't have to choose one
So I am currently developing this app that shows you ads and you swipe right if interested and left if not. When thinking about how to present the ads, instead of an 'infinite scroll' I thought it ...
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Is there a design pattern that accounts for phone protector/cases
So, I'm wondering if there is a design pattern that counts for the usage of a phone protector/case.
Recently I noticed a new employee use an application we just launched, he was using a protector/...
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Phone number login and verification for mobile apps
Can someone shed some light on the security behind mobile phone logins on mobile apps?
Uber and Lyft ask the user to login using their mobile phone, I'm assuming because it is a more unique ...
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Which accessibility standard for mobile app?
The W3C has created accessibility guidelines for websites. A is the least accessible, and puts the least constraints on the design, AAA is the most accessible, and puts the biggest constraints on the ...
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Is it odd to have search results displayed in a way that is inconsistent with the rest of an app?
I've spent a few days thinking about how to layout my mobile app's interface and I think I've found a way that makes sense to me. I just need some advice to check that I'm not veering too far from ...
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Toolbar at the bottom of texts/numbers busy screen
I have my app as the screen below. I need to place a toolbar with 2 buttons: one large button displaying the currently active list/deck of drugs (below it's written 'Pediatric Drugs' where he can ...
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Is highlighting something and then putting a message redundant?
So my scene looks like this:
As you can see, in this case I highlighted the distance value because the card is near the user. As I couldn't think of any neat-looking way of highlighting a value that ...
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How to facilitate multiple options whilst emphasizing 1 option in particular?
In this screen we have six options which can be toggled to suit the users preferences. All of these preference options are necessary to the product.
However, in 90% of use cases the users will only ...
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Navigation rules for bottom tab bar
I'm working on a mobile app which has a bottom navigation bar.
There are 3 tabs:
Payments
Home
Settings
When I am on the home section I have a menu, where I can go deeper, inside this section:
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Icons vs numbers progress tracker
My mobile application includes a 4 step process to create and publish a project
with each step start, the progress tracker increments(highlights next step)
as shown in the image below
currently am ...
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What does Chance of Rain mean?
I am using the DarkSky API to get the local weather forecast.
Here are some different statistics for the probability of rain:
They say the chance of rain today is 85%.
The average probability of ...
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How to handle multiple objects on the same day in my timeline?
I am making an app where a series of posts are shown side by side chronologically. Then on the same page, there is a timeline at the bottom where each post is represented by a colored tick. You can ...
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Do these vertically swipeable views have a standard name?
So I've noticed this type of view appearing across a variety of popular apps recently, including Music (iOS), Google Maps, and recently also Twitter:
It extends only partially from the bottom of the ...
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Dismiss modal when completing a flow on Mobile
I am working on a mobile app and the flow is mainly to add one or n accounts. The flow has 3 steps and you can't jump to the next step if you haven't filled the previous one.
When designing the flow I ...
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How to handle cascaded navigation in mobile design?
I'm designing an app for HR use. As you can see in the screenshot below, there is a dropdown box where you can select the person to view. There are a few different subsections of that (Details, ...
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Link in running text on mobile device
we have a mobile app with a space of 1 row for running text on the first screen. It´s purpose is to announce an important news. For example: "We are preparing a new version of our app with lots of new ...
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How to show the user has “grabbed” an element?
I'm working on a mobile drag and drop feature, where users can rearrange the order of list items by dragging and dropping them in a new place in the list.
So far the flow is as follows: the user ...
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In Responsive Design, how do you trigger Tooltips? mouse hover isn't there anymore
A tiny disclaimer, not looking for tooltip alternative for mobile as in another UI Pattern, i'm looking for a different interaction that could trigger the tooltip, i hope this makes it clear.
The ...
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What resolution(s) should photos be to be shown on iPhone?
I have an app where users have profile photos.
Profile photos will be shown frequently, and are about 3/4 the size of a regular iPhone.
Of course, the tradeoff is bigger resolution means higher ...
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Drag controls on partial-screen modals on iPhone X
With the introduction of the home indicator on the iPhone X (and Xs, Xr, Xs Max), it seems worthwhile to question the pull-down-to-close controls on partial-screen modals.
The most common pattern I'...
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What would be best practices regarding button width on mobile apps?
I've seen buttons be smaller in width (with a minimum width of course)
like this
And full width until the margin like this
What would be best, or in which situations it would be better to choose ...
