Questions tagged [mobile-application]
A software application designed to run on smartphones, tablet computers and other mobile devices.
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Error on initial push notification subscription
Does it make sense to inform the user with an error message when initial registration to push notifications fails?
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Is Balloon popup for mobile apps common?
Our mobile app has a screen with a button that updates a price when the user takes a picture.
In order to clarify any doubt that a user may have about the button, I want to add a description somewhere ...
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On a phone, navigating to next item in a list
This is a question for the phone UI.
I have an app where people can store documents. The main page shows users a scrollable list of their documents. They can then tap to view an individual document. ...
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Improve experience when using anchor link from different touchpoints
My detail page on mobile app is setting with different sections and have a tab menu fixed on top when scrolling. The issue that I have right now is, each section can be a separate touchpoint on other ...
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Best practices: keyboard dismissal and button display in mobile apps
We have both iOS and Android apps with forms in multiple places, and are looking for an appropriate UX pattern for continuing when the form is complete.
Example: On the login screen, the user must ...
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Entering a Distance
I'm building a mobile form to capture a golf scorecard. There's inherently repetition there (either 9 or 18 holes). Currently the user enters the par via a segment button and the distance via an empty ...
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What is the repeated, blurred image background called?
I have a card component with a photo. I don't want any portion of photos to be cut off, but this means narrow/vertical photos will have empty space to the sides.
I want to use that blur tiling often ...
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Using a single text field with auto type detection in an app
So we want to increase the number of accepted fields in our app of which people use as identifier to transfer to. We currently have mobile number and email , however we intend to increase to add ...
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How to implement list filter functionality for mobile use case
I have a list of vehicles in a mobile application. The user needs to be able to filter the list of vehicles with a few rules/requirements:
User must be able to filter the list of vehicles i.e search ...
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Solutions for long App names for both App Store/Play Store and using an icon name
What is the preferred method for working with long app names? When the app name is required and can not be changed when a company might have multiple apps with similar names.
Do apps mainly keep the ...
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App Project - Displaying Data
Please see attached. I need to represent this data within an App. My thoughts are just to keep it as a list - with pretty icons. The user will be doing nothing with this data, it is just for reference....
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Drawing on Mobile with fingers: magnifier or offset from finger location?
We are working on a "remove objects from photos" app, where the users highlight/select a part of an image they want to remove and the app takes care of it.
Precision is sort of important ...
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Best practice for multiple select categories
I'm designing an e-commerce mobile app where the products can be filtered by multiple categories. The problem is, the categories can be up to three layers.
The hierarchy example
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iOS and Android app - data download or page navigation first
What is the best perceived UX for mobile applications which require data downloaded midway through the journey. I cannot find this information online in Apple's Human Interface Guidelines (or I am ...
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Forum - Threaded Messaging on Mobile
I need to display a threaded forum on Mobile. It's a fully fledged threaded forum where users can reply on any "reply".
Currently I am displaying the forum in threaded order, but as it is a small ...
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What should be the vertical placement of primary button on a mobile screen? And why?
A user scans the screen from left to right and top to bottom.
So, we use the primary action (or primary CTA) on the right side while designing for the web.
If we consider top to bottom scan approach ...
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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 should an app clarify that you can choose the outcome size only during the first 2 of the 4-step process?
I am working on an app that synthesizes long texts, articles, essays.
You paste in the text and the system starts synthesizing.
You can choose a size or length for the final format, say Short, Medium, ...
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Which should be the right rule to show two play button in the same interface?
I'm trying to design an app interface.
The app functionalities are:
show a map
start a tour (play button). It starts tracking the route, kms/miles and time
play some audio (another play button). All ...
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Tradeoffs in buy-in/uptake, retention, usability and engagement when splitting an app in two (or more)
I'm designing an app that, due to its nature, has 3-4 absolutely distinct but interacting role-types. However, importantly, a single person can be tagged with any combination of these roles. One ...
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App revamp would mean all locally stored video and audio data will be wiped out
We're doing an app revamp for our media streaming app, but the new update would mean that all the local downloads will be corrupted as we are changing the media streaming technology. For context, some ...
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"Translate" mobile app mockup dimensions from desktop to smartphone size?
I'm pretty sure this is a common issue, but I'm not certain if I'll be able to explain myself correctly. So please bear with me.
I'm including a screenshot of a mobile app I'm working on in my ...
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Should you increase tap target size with text scale factor?
When a user has difficulties reading text and has to increase the font size they use on mobile phone, should tap targets increase as well?
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Placing logout button in menu-less application
This particular application does not have a side menu, bottom navigation or a Profile/Account page. Although it requires the user to Sign In to proceed.
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Using audio files with Figma for mobile app, trying Protopie
We are building a mobile app in the mental health space.
When we started we chose Figma without realising that it doesn’t have audio support. We have a lot of storytelling in our lessons where we want ...
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How to make extra options appear in a language learning app
I am trying to design a app for learning languages. It lets you watch 15 sec youtube videos. The goal is for you to watch videos and try to understand what is being said with subtitles which are ...
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Sitemap of a Website versus Mobile App
I noticed that sitemap is usually created for a website. Is it also applicable to a mobile application?
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Is it good UX to wait for all images to be loaded before displaying them?
Let's say there's a website or app with 20 images on the initial screen. For websites, we'd typically show images whenever they're available. Since the 20 images will likely all load at different ...
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How to inform user that an action will launch another app (in mobile)?
I'm very familiar with the visual cue of a link launching a new website as is used in wikipedia:
However I'm not sure of how this works on mobile apps, for example I have this situation:
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Accessibility and tappable colored text in apps
WCAG guidelines say that we should not rely on color to be the only visual cue conveying information for level A accessibility
At the moment, we have tappable texts that are coloured to indicate they ...
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Onboarding before using app vs previewing first?
I'm an Android user and it seems fairly standard on Android to be able to play around with an app before signing up. This is how I designed my apps. However, I showed it to some iOS users and they ...
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What is better way to implement category selection?
I am developing an android app and currently have a AutoCompletEditText implemented for selecting source of meme. However I want to limit source selection to limited number of options and therefore it ...
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How big should an analogue stick be on a mobile game?
I am developing a mobile game, for fun, and am adding an analogue stick to control the main character. It looks something like this:
I am hoping to get some advice on the appropriate size and ...
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Showing that dropdown filter has been applied?
An issue I've had with mobile apps with dropdowns is that when I change the dropdown selection, it's not clear if the filter was applied. It usually happens when my phone has weak reception. I ...
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Should the logo color be used in the application theme color?
I want to ask if it is okay to have different color between logo and mobile application theme color? The logo color is too bright for application theme color, so I choose the similar color but darker. ...
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What are real examples of content-driven navigation?
Reading Apple HIG Guideline I came across an explanation of the content-driven navigation. It says that games, books, and other immersive apps use this navigation type. But what other immersive apps? ...
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Do complex mobile apps need to have all the same functions as the desktop version?
This is more a philosophical question, and it's been hard phrasing it right to get an answer, so apologies if this has been asked before.
We currently have a desktop app that's a textbook definition ...
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Drafts for the in-progress applications
I am working on a mobile application for license registration. After the user has selected his product and filled the required forms, he has to wait for the request to be confirmed. After request ...
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How to design interactions for guiding users to install an application during sign up process
Application objective
We have a mobile application where a sales employee will be able to login to see his sales stats for the month. The data available to the employee is restricted to only his own ...
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What is better? Login with Phone or Email or Both?
We are developing a mobile app, which our customer requested the following login/registration options.
Email, Gmail, Apple, Phone
In addition to that, customer want the user to try the app before ...
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Tabs that can fall back to another tab when the first tab is empty?
Conceptually, I have 2 tabs that act as filters for an infinitely scrollable list. There's a local tab and a global tab. The local tab can be empty pretty often. I'd like to fall back to the global ...
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Is it legit to break some manufacturers guidelines in profit of a context or a need?
Everything is in the title, I'm currently having a "confrontation" with developers. This question could be summed up like this :
About mobile manufacturers guidelines, are they really made ...
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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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Sticky, non Sticky CTAs, or both? How to involve UX Research?
I'm looking for the right UX research method to test 3 CTA cases for a booking application:
1)sticky CTAs 2)non-sticky CTAs (requires scroll) 3)both practices (depending on the purpose of each screen)
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Showing item-level & order-level offers/promotions on Details page (PDP) &/or Cart page?
I have 2 types of offers (promotions) applicable on my eCommerce website:
Item level offers (example: Item belongs to Brand XYZ. Buy any 2 items from brand XYZ to get 30% off)
Order level offers (...
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Using detail disclosure buttons on section headers
My colleague is suggesting to add a detail disclosure icon to a section header in a mobile app. It seems rather cluttered to me given the density of info we already have on the screen.
Are there any ...
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Are there existing patterns for forwarding an image to email from in app?
I am working on an app where one of the final steps in the signup process requires that users provide information displayed on screen to their employer; they can either go to their email and forward ...
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Right side drawer - text and icon alignment
I want to give my users option to chose between right and left drawer and I'm wondering how to align elements in a Left-To-Right language. Bellow there are few examples but I want to hear your opinion ...
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Hover up modal over another hover up modal in mobile UI
Is it better to use a hover up modal over another hover up modal on mobile UI? In the current situation I want to open an information page when the user taps on a certain card, and that information ...
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