Questions tagged [mobile-application]
A software application designed to run on smartphones, tablet computers and other mobile devices.
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Is it good UX to show, or notify, users about deleted messages in WhatsApp?
Is it a good user experience for sender as well as the receiver of messages in any messenger app (here WhatsApp) to show that there were or was a message(s) deleted?
If I send a message to anyone and ...
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What is the best place to put the delete button?
Well, this maybe the simple question but it has given me a headache for days.
I'm making an app, from design, code, etc.... The app is a note app, user can select multiples of them, and then can ...
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Where to add quantity and price information in a small button
I have lot of "product" buttons in my Android App, each of that button based on configuration can have 4 variation:
Pure button with only it's title, button with title and price, button with ...
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Responsive design for mobile phones looking like mobile app design
What do you think about the use of a bottom menu in a responsive design ecommerce site for mobile devices, resembling a mobile app?
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Standard Container Size For Mobile Canvas? [closed]
I am creating a mobile design in Figma and my selected frame size is 428 x 926 px (for I phone 13 pro max). I want a container to achieve a proper grid system, can you please tell me what should be ...
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Creating user friendly autocomplete inputs for mobile devices
Note: Initially I posted this question for code review, but realized this is really a question about user interface.
I am working on an e-commerce website, I have 2 types of autocomplete inputs:
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How should I best approach a project which involves merging separate apps together? [closed]
I need to merge 3 separate apps for a project at work. One app is for smart homes devices, one is for smart condo management (booking facilities, etc.) and one is for smart towns.
Does anyone know any ...
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How to "swipe right" between two people given information density?
I'm not a UX designer, I'm a programmer. So please be patient with me :)
So we're working on a dating app that learns what features a user likes in other people. We're struggling with designing the '...
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WCAG 2.1 Compliance: How does it apply to password-protected web and native apps
As stated in the title, I'm curious if anyone has resources explaining (or experiences with) any adjusted WCAG criteria for "gated" applications. Does something being behind a password wall, ...
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Is feature to customize themes and colors for Mobile/Web Apps important for UX?
We are building a CRM like application but targeting micro businesses, consultants and etc.
While designing UI for our Mobile/Web App, my manager suggested us to inlcude themes, color and fonts ...
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Showing price on legend when seats are unavailable
I'm designing a cabin booking feature in a travel app. What would be the best option if all the Extra Legroom seats (the unfilled ones) have been already taken.
To indicate as "unavailable "...
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Google pay and Credit card in the mobile app
I just need one or two advice, regarding on this new booking system as the developer team create it without my knowledge and didn't ask me for advice or design UX before they went developed it and it ...
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How to benchmark others' apps without expensive purchases
In order to improve our airline travel booking app's notification experience, I'm conducting a benchmarking study where I hope to look at the various notifications at different points of the user ...
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What's the best order to remind users to complete their account information after registration
i'm designing a registration flow for an ecommerce app. Among the information needed, some information isn't needed immediately to complete registion. After filling in the minimum required fields, the ...
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To Number or Not To Number
Here's a portion of a display from an iOS app that allows users to connect to a Wireless Valve Control device.
UPDATE: My question is regarding the -42 dBM and 2.97V labels.
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Single or multiple form field(s)
Consider an application where a user can make a list of people to meet during the day, and share that with a colleague/secretary/etc. It is something between a todo list and an actual calendar.
So ...
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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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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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Navigation for app that is embedded into another app's user interface
I have an app that is going to be embedded in another app. The app we're embedding into has it's own navigation system (bottom navigation and may have a hamburger menu at the top).
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Two buttons for actions of equal significance on same (mobile) screen
Consider a simple app for making wish lists and sharing the list with a friend (or shopping assistant).
On the main screen, the user is shown the list of items they have added to their wishlist. There ...
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How do I best make a tally of items on a mobile phone
I'm designing a wireframe for a mobile app for logging materials.
One of the features needs to be able to log the makeup of a material.
fx in the case of a technical fabric the composition can look ...
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Alternative to TAB layout to show three different pages connected
I have an app where from the home page the user enter in a page built like:
List of all registered documents from which the user can choose one of them and send it to the server with a bottom app bar ...
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Do horizontally scrolling tabs on mobile have issues with long labels
Designing tab navigation for a mobile app feature, and some of the labels are going to be quite lengthy. I'm curious if this would cause usability issues for users who might not know that you can ...
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Which button layout is the best?
I'm currently working on a modal in app, that can be display in full screen.
I'm having some issue about the way to close this modal.
In the first situation, we can have a “Fermer” (close) button as ...
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Looking for advice on organizing an app which is basically just a collection of functions a user can trigger
I'm currently in the process of redesigning a mobile app, which pretty much acts as a launchpad for a variety of different payment functions.
The app's current architecture relies on a bottom-...
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Should I avoid underlined links on mobile app?
We have a discussion in my team about links into mobile apps.
Developer said links shouldn't be underlined.
But in complex mobile apps sometimes, we have link to different entities.
I can see that ...
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Why are so many kids apps are in landscape mode?
I'm trying to figure it out for couple of days, google best ux practices for building apps for kids, but none of them says "you should make your app in landscape mode". Tried to search for ...
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Best way to discover creating events in calendar application
I have a mobile calendar app
First I want to say that my app is not a normal calendar app, because users may sometimes need to add a lot of events at once, not like google calendar where people ...
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Idiom for global shortcuts on mobile devices
I have a mobile web app and there are two different modes for viewing content and the user may frequently toggle between them. I'd like to provide a very convenient way for the user to request this ...
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Determining Information Priority using digital Survey
This question is regarding an event/activity booking mobile application.
The content users are served (offers and vendors) can be grouped by Regions (multiple) & Interest categories (6). Users ...
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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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Best practice for out-of-app notifications for in-app messages?
Platforms like Task Rabbit and Airbnb send users an email and/or text message when an in-app message is received.
What is best practice in terms of UX for how and when these out-of-app notifications (...
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What is a better solution for too many in-app notifications
With the current state of travel, there are many regulatory bits of information that need to be conveyed to users as they make a booking on our travel app. Here there are at least 4 separate ...
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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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Guiding users to enter their membership number from email to app
I'm designing a feature to encourage users to sign up as a frequent flyer member on a flight booking app. This feature will appear on the booking summary screen after the user has booked a flight.
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UX when showing multiple QR codes, but making sure people don't accidental scan the wrong one
We have created a poster with the most ordered products for our customers. This also shows QR and barcodes for each product which they can scan with their phone (and our app) to re-order the product ...
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Should back button close the app or go deeper in it?
I just received a feature/change request regarding my app that I subjectively found wrong, but I want to see what other people (or studies) have to say from their knowledge and/or experience.
My app ...
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Are mobile apps dropping UX in favor of super-clean interfaces? If so, why?
Today's mobile apps, compared to 5-6 years ago are way cleaner visually.
Nowadays you can find several popular apps with a way that is really so clean that there is no value proposition on the login ...
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iOS/Android: Best practise for adding a back button on top of an either dark or light image
Challenge: Creating a back button that is placed on top of an image that can either be dark or light WHILST keeping the style/layout in line with the current layout for headers.
Ask: Help with either ...
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Designing android apps: Material design and apps with own character
I'm new to mobile app development. I came across material design and its guidelines even though I just scratched the surface. I basically am curious how strict the guidelines have to be followed to be ...
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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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Simple cross platform style guide for mobile apps or a recommended approach?
Having joined a new project recently I've found a lot of padding / margin sizes etc set in the App which had variuous names and isn't consistent.
I've also been briefly looking at style guides blog ...
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What's the best option for an opacity slider on this color selection menu?
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I am currently working on a new cosmetics app. As an example, in the Lipstick category, users would be able to change their lip color by choosing a different lipstick color.
We created a small ...
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Using both bottom navigation and tabs for an android app [duplicate]
I was told it's a bad practice to have both bottom navigation and tabs in the same screen, but I'm not finding any information about why, and what can I use instead of tab bars in Material Design. The ...
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How to structure big list of steps in an mobile friendly way?
I need to organize big list of steps in an user friendly way in a mobile app. I was hoping to do it like slider(title + image + description) in onboarding flow but with numbers (ex: 1/20) instead of ...
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Time picker with blacklisted times
What would be a good design on an app for a time picker, incremented by 30 min with some blacklisted times?
So for ex. 9:00am, 9:30am, 10:30am 12pm, 12:30pm etc.
checked all over for inspiration, but ...
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How much time in advance should users be informed of an upcoming maintenance on app?
I'm desiging the UX on how to handle planned maintenance of a travel booking app. During this time frame, some services won't able available. I've decided that there will be messaging in the app as ...
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Live app icons on smartphones?
One thing on my iPhone that always makes me wonder is the Clock app icon. As far as I know, it is the only app icon that is actually "live" (constantly changing state to show the current ...
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In app - planned maintenance and unplanned downtime messaging
I'm designing the messaging for 2 types of scenarios. Planned maintenance, and unplanned downtime. in both cases, certain services on the app won't work, but the rest of the app will function as ...
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User interface feedback for product review page [closed]
I'm a novice currently learning user interface design in my free time.
I am currently designing a minimalist product review page for the mobile phone. I would like to get feedback or suggestions on ...
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