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An application designed to run in the computer environment (machine language and OS) it is being run in.

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Red CTAs, once again

The app I'm working on is using red CTA buttons. We use one CTA/screen (or at least that's what we do since I joined). I have now people questioning how effective red CTA buttons are. We don't have an ...
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Material design or completely custom look? [closed]

I'm making an app and I'm not sure whether to follow Google's material design or stick to a completely custom look and feel. I can find pros and cons in each approach: Material design Custom Pros ...
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Native date pickers VS Custom date pickers

What is the best practice use case for (calendar) date pickers? Native or custom? Native looks great on iOS and Android devices, however when we look at non-mobile calendar pickers the browsers vary ...
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Native iOS icon sets

I've always found designing natively for iOS tricky - Google seems to just have everything there for you to look through and design exactly the same. Whereas the Apple Human Interface Guidelines ...
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Support Sign in with Apple or nah? [closed]

With the announcement of this... Sign In with Apple will be available for beta testing this summer. It will be required as an option for users in apps that support third-party sign-in when it is ...
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What is the best native iOS solution for a Radio Button with just two options?

The challenge I'm faced with is that I have a horizontally scrolling series of cards that have two common questions for each item, say, Did you perform activity x? and Did you perform activity y?, and ...
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How to usability test a prototype of mobile app

I've written "User Stories" in "Gherkin Syntax" for native mobile app and want to get it "User Tested" to find our any usability issues. Do I need clickable mocks which can be shown to user on mobile ...
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Keeping alert messages the same on desktop & native app

For a given alert/error message, a version that specified why it was happening and how it can be resolved tested the best on desktop. The current message is 173 characters long (including spaces). But ...
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Native or custom look and feel for desktop applications [closed]

I am currently writing a library to create desktop user interfaces, and I am asking myself a question: is it better to have a native look and feel, or a consistent custom look and feel? I personnally ...
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What is the best practice for displaying a data grid on a mobile device?

I can't find resources, guidelines or best practices for natively displaying a data grid on an enterprise mobile app? Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
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Is there any solution for mobile grid (native) - 30 column?

I was looking ux patterns on internet but couldn't find specific solution for it. I have more than 25 column grid which would like to show on mobile native app. Customer is interested to show all the ...
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Website,WebApp,Responsive Site,Mobile Native App

So there is lot of debate going on in world wide web about websites taking over mobile native apps. Well it stays subjective. But i came up with this case recently. So we have a website that has a ...
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Back function in (mobile) native apps vs. web apps

I'm currently prototype a search / result workflow for a web app. You search something, click on a result and be able to go back to the search result. Now how do I display that? Do I implement a back-...
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Native app 404 page not found example [closed]

I'm looking for 404 page not found an example for the native app,I would appreciate if someone can provide me with some screenshots for a famous company like facebook,twitter,amazon,airbnb..etc, it ...
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With the appearance of progressive web apps, should native vs web mobile apps still have different features ?

When I first asked myself this question, this answer made a lot of sense : If your app is the same as your website, then why have an app? source But today, web apps are getting better and better, ...
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What word can be used to mean either a website, web app or native mobile app?

I'm running into the comment/question "So, is it an app?" Well, first it will be a responsive site with some app-like functionality; then later it will also be a native app with the same ...
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User Research to validate App Concepts

I've been working with clients who want to create new native apps. They already have apps for their business and want to create apps to reach a broader audience. So, my company (and me, by default) is ...
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How to force user to select a location and not simply type it?

Let's suppose this simple form: So, the user is expected to enter the keywords of the meeting's full address. While typing, suggestions are displayed (autocomplete feature). Here's an example: ...
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Customizing the native look and feel?

Is it more important to keep an application layout faithful to the native design/visual of a platform or customize it to look like your own app? Example: You could change an Android native dialog ...
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Native mobile, user content editable

I was wondering because I can't seem to find any examples of a good native design for modifying user content; I'm an Android developer and I have a dedicated job to build one app for our company. For ...
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Native apps | Mixing compiled UI-UX with unknown dynamic controls and interactions

The problem I am planning a mobile / tablet app that aims to combine ‘knowns’ - a largely static, pre-defined UI-UX as is the nature of compiled binaries - together with a potentially quite wide ...
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What iOS developers need from a UI/UX designer?

So I am fairly new to UI/UX design (pretty much learning on the go). I am building a native iOS app and need to deliver the designs to the developer. I have built an interactive prototype using ...
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Windows phone 8 design - logo in detailed pages

Is it good to have logo in detailed pages of an app? For example Page 1 contains list of posts, on clicking it we go to detailed view of each post → Page 2. On clicking comments on Page 2 you go to ...
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What is an example of a mobile app using an eye icon for showing the password in clear text

I am seeking an example to use in the 2nd Edition of the Mobile Design Pattern Gallery, O'Reilly Media 2014, but I cannot find the example I thought I had on hand. Can you think of any?
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Any Research on User Experience Perceptions of Native Apps vs Web or Hybrid Apps

My organization is looking at developing mobile applications, we have a wealth of web development resources. There are many factors to consider in making the decision of how to develop this ...
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Should clicking a drop-down menu in a native app a second time close it?

Why do some UIs use drop-down menus that can be closed with a second click, while others do not? It really annoys me when I have to click outside of the menu in order to close it and I accidentally ...
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How do you nudge users to download your native app?

I was reading an ACM research paper recently that considered users' revisitation patterns. The authors found that users tend to revisit native apps far more often than they revisit pages in browsers. ...
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