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. Questions tagged *mobile* should in one way or another reflect a particular aspect unique to mobile devices, as compared to digital screen design in general
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Best way to present a discovered event from the current vicinity
I have this app here where users can find events nearby using Wifi/Bluetooth. This app is intended to be used in large gatherings/crowds. (I can't share much about the project details as I am under ...
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How to display 3 horizontal nested tabs on mobile device
There is a tab with 5 options: Upload Documents, Personal Profile, Financial Profile, Bank Account, and Nominee. When Upload Documents is selected, 2 more tabs appear below it. The 2nd tab has 4 ...
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First letter uppercase or lowercase for a mobile app name
I'm designing an ai based mobile app and i was curious about using uppercase or lowercase letter as first letter of an app gives any difference in user likes. I wanted to know if people prefer capital ...
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How to declutter a mobile app home screen with a floating “Create Video” component?
I am developing a mobile app focused on encouraging users to create videos. To keep the “create video” option always visible, I have implemented a floating “Create Video” component above the home ...
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Enhancing User Experience with Better Animation Button Design
Hi UX Stack Exchange Community,
I'm currently working on a mobile app design for the Mazda MX-5 modding community. The app allows users to execute animations with their car's lights (such as wink, ...
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Which interaction is more user friendly to filter a list of customers by first letter on mobile?
I'm designing filters to help users find out what they need in a very long list of customers (more than 5000 entries on average). One of the options is to filter by Last Name or First Name's initial ...
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How to make UI less cluttered when there are multiple buttons and contents in a row with a restricted space?
I am working on an app screen that has some text content on the left and two buttons on the right but adding everything in a row seems to make the text area shrink and the UI a bit cluttered.
I was ...
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Explaining button functionality on mobile app?
I'm working on an app design for updating item prices at different department stores. Essentially, the user updates the app prices by taking a picture of the actual price and the backend processes the ...
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What is the best way to show a user that they no longer qualify for an item?
I am working on a mobile app with coupons at various brands. Each coupon has a defined target audience, and users that fall into that audience based on their user attributes will see the coupon. Users ...
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iOS Sheet or Modal? Can You Help Me Identify Use Cases?
Okay, I've been struggling to find an answer for this in the Apple HIG guidelines, so I'll ask here.
In the attached image, what is the difference between the three screen types?
Full-screen modal ...
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Legal wants terms and conditions on mobile to have agree and disagree checkboxes but without a default state. How do i go on designing it?
The last step in the registration process of our clients app requires users to agree to their terms and condition. There are two types one being mandatory and other being optional. The mandatory will ...
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How to Encourage Users to Submit Multiple Price Requests on Our App?
Our app allows users to ask the price from vendors. The flow is as follows:
Click on the 'Request price' button
Fill and submit a form
The information filled in the form is saved and can be reused ...
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Creating a better navigation and filter for a festival or conference scheduler
I'm trying to figure out a good way to create a 6 level selector + filter on an app that shows me a schedule for a festival with artist slots and allows me to book artists to form my own schedule (or ...
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Can a bottom drawer common in mobile apps be used on mobile webpages?
I was trying out the GenAI features in Instagram, and loved how they used a drawer for hiding information a user doesn't need all the time. Can this pattern be implemented on web through either native ...
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Stateful Call to Actions
I have the following two call to actions.
After clicking on "Request Invoice" it may take up to 24 hours before it's ready. I want to prevent users from requesting the same invoice multiple ...
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Two Similar Call to Action Buttons
I have the following vendors details page.
I want to add a Request Invoice button. One option is to have a column on buttons: Request Invoice button, then Contact button through WhatsApp.
The Request ...
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Entry point to a Flow From a Result Search Page
I have search result page that lists vendors (see below). I want to add an entry point for requesting an invoice.
I want to collect suggestions on how to model this entry point. The best I have so ...
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How do I allow the user to visit the umbrella page in mobile navigation menu?
I have a navigation menu with some of the buttons being hover dropdown menus. So when the user hovers the button, a dropdown opens below where they can select where they want to go.
Front page
Open ...
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Is there a methodology or color choice that allows an app's UI to be more visible in outdoor conditions? [duplicate]
I saw this question on another Q&A website and was wondering the same. This is a question that resurfaces from time to time, even on this website, where there are several questions with no answer, ...
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Notification popup with a lot of text
I am having some problems with a notification popup system (for web and app) - which has some big challenges:
A lot of text to display, like 340 characters, or 50 words. People from the legal ...
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Solution for Alert button in app
I am designing mobile app and confused as I don't know where to place the Replace Worker button. Replace worker button function as an alert to Superior that, worker is not available and need to be ...
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Bottom sheet instead of dropdown in mobile app [closed]
In my mobile app project I have several dropdown lists. I converted some of them to radio buttons (<5 selection options). I wonder what I should do with the rest (choosing car brand, car model, ...
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How to handle list loading + errors on mobile
I have a list of addresses on a mobile app. What is the best way to handle pagination and loading errors?
example:
The list is paginated by default. 5 items are shown, with a "Load more" ...
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Is having a delete confirmation built into the button itself an appropriate UX?
This is for desktop and mobile, basically when you click the button once it changes to "Confirm" with a cancel button next to it. I got some feedback that it's not clear you have to press ...
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What can you fit into a single burger menu on mobile documentation website?
I am looking at this Vercel page:
They put the table of contents in a select box at the top of the post, and then the burger menu is more global links.
Proposition
What are the pros/cons of merging ...
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Alternatives to hamburger menus for switching the user context (e.g. active project in a project management app)?
Context: a mobile app for project management where the user at any given time has one active project. Think Slack/Discord/GitHub. Each project has some per-project navigation, in the form of a top tab ...
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Navigating to subpage from multiple locations
Let's assume the following Navigation Hierarchy:
RootPage1
-> SubPage1
RootPage2
RootPage3
All RootPages are accessible from the NavBar.
RootPage1 has a button that navigates the user to SubPage1....
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How to scale typography and UI for different mobile device resolutions?
We have an iOS and an Android tailored application. We noticed that on small devices, the UI becomes very large with texts not fitting properly, either truncating or going to another line (this ...
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Are there any Android/iOS guidelines about automatically switching nav bar selection for a user?
I work on a product with a side navigation bar on the left side of the screen (for tablets). It functions like a Navigation bar. We have been asked to implement a feature so that if a user is away ...
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How to display when a dropdown selection is too long?
I am working with a dropdown that has a longer option included. When the long option is selected, the selection is cut off when the user is on mobile.
Ideally I would like to keep this as a dropdown ...
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if using table rows inline-editable in mobile view the best practice as Ux
I am working on a data table with many columns, and I depend on inline editing when the user double click the row. currently, I am working on a responsive version for this table to be viewed on mobile,...
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Best layout tactic for repeated, semi-sequential, nested form inside a bottomsheet [closed]
I am developing a mobile app that offers a GIS utility. As such, the main feature of the app is a map and a graph. In order to run the utility, the user must input 2 locations, i.e. a start and an ...
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Mobile Survey Design -- Next button vs automatic continue [closed]
I'm wondering if there is a situation in mobile survey design where a next button is more favorable than automatic continue after user selection and vice versa.
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Avoiding confusion in duplicate app icons
We've got an interesting scenario, with potential confusion from two icons on a device.
We need to transition users to a newer app. Out of necessity, it is a completely new app with a new identifier - ...
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What UX principles to apply to assess a sticky action menu at the bottom?
On the Awwwards website, I really like the sticky action menu at the bottom of the page (the black rounded box on the screenshot)
I think it is :
Close to the thumb on mobile, hence easy to reach
Not ...
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Change details view of iOS or Android without going back to UITableView
We are redesigning our app and the current one you need to hit the back button to view all Divisions to get to a new Division Details page. We are looking for the best UI option to just change the ...
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I have two different graphs. Should I use one legend or two legends in this case?
I have two graphs that follow the same legend. I am wondering if should use one legend for both graphs (screenshot A) or one legend for each graph. (screenshot B) I don't want to clutter the design ...
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If you have a PC game with keyboard input, how do you translate that to mobile?
I have an old game I wrote decades ago, which I'd like to port to mobile.
The inputs are basic, arrow keys to move around. However you can't easily do that on a mobile - eg you hold down right to ...
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How best to present an option to type in text OR choose from a preexisting long list
I have a use case on mobile in which a user can type in a label for a group of items. Certain labels will be very common. The list of common labels is quite long. Finally, not all users will initially ...
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How to validate removing of 'back' button from a form while usability testing?
I tried to validate the removal of the back button from a mobile and a web screen within forms. I used Useberry for usability testing and wasn't sure how to validate this.
I already have a back button ...
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Does a plus sign indicate to login to access associated price
The aim is to get the customer to login. So we are providing a different pricing model when signed in, does a plus sign indicate to the customer to tap this (a pop up to login will appear) and then ...
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Radio Selection before search
Context
Allowing users to search for any particular job based on multiple parameters.
Feedback needed
I've designed this application search component, which will have a default selection and the user ...
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Sticky button but only after user made a selection
I'm designing a screen where users have to:
Select a day
Select a time slot
Click a "Confirm" button (which is disabled until the user selects day and time).
I didn't want to make the ...
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How would I go about designing a home screen whose sole purpose is navigating to other [5] pages?
The homescreen really only needs 5 buttons that navigate to other screens. there isn't much more to show in this page since they are static screens.
This is what the homepage looks like:
I've tried ...
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Unusual time picker
I'm puzzled by the following time picker:
Proposing only the even hours is fine, but then why bother to propose minutes as well? It's strange to let the user choose 10.05 but not 11:00.
If that ...
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The ideal Splash Screen for mobile applications should be animated or static?
The manager asks for animated Splash screen, but I am against it, since the animation can slow down and annoy the user, but what do you think?
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Multiple sorting orders in one screen
For the following example shown in the screenshot (mobile app that records public transport trips), when a user visits their journey history screen there are multiple sorting chronological orders.
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Best way to design a multilevel hamburger menu?
– Do you know about a usability study that has compared how to best present deeper navigation levels inside a hamburger menu used on mobile web sites?
As I see it there are two main patterns:
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Why don't most mobile apps use color in their interfaces?
We've been developing a mobile app, and now we're researching the perfect colors for it.
I've noticed that most mobile retail/list apps use white and gray as their normal GUI colors. For example, ...
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Complex QR validation UX. Validate 1 entry or group?
I've been trying to find a solution to speed up the validation of the QR for tickets.
The thing is that in the industry the people validating the tickets are used to sounds, like beep for "OK&...
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