Questions tagged [smartphone]
A mobile phone with an advanced mobile operating system which combines features of a personal computer operating system with other features useful for mobile or handheld use.
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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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Designing an elevator with smartphone to elevator button pressing and smartphone vibration and notification upon arrival
Elevators make us reason about mathematics (for instance, vectors... when an elevator goes from one floor to another, you can visualize the vector pointing from one floor, with a number, to another ...
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Cross or left arrow to return to the previous page?
I am developing a phone app with Material UI (using Flutter).
To return to the previous route ("cancel" the current route), when should I use Icon.close (cross):
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Selecting between two options in smartphone app?
We have a smartphone app for pizza places, and a user can select to see "delivery" or "carry-out" and, separately, the closest or the cheapes.
These are the two options I've found:
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What's the name of this iphone control?
What's the name of this iphone control? It's like a slider/tab control:
Does it exist in android?
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Should I keep my change password section within the change profile section or settings?
I've seen some mobile apps keep the change password section separately from the edit profile screen (for instance Instagram) but some just keep it inside the edit profile screen itself.
I personally ...
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Do users care about notification settings?
Setting the stage:
We have a mobile-app with multiple services from different domains. Each with their own alerts. We are only talking about PUSH NOTIFICATIONS
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We send alerts from those ...
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Options for manual camera controls on a phone app
I am making an advanced camera app for Android. Right now, I have come up with 2 ideas for implementing 3 manual controls (focus distance, sensor sensitivity, and exposure time) on a touch screen:
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How to display products from various menu's in a smart way? [closed]
for an application in the restaurant business I am thinking of a smart way to display ALL menu items, both foods and drinks, from various menus. Now a restaurant may have several menu cards, so a ...
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Dealing With The Lack of "HOVER" on Smart Phone Web Apps
I made this CardTrick back in 2006, at a time when it would have been predominantly accessed via a desktop computer (and not a smart phone).
On a desktop computer, as the mouse hovers over any card, ...
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Determining app compatibility and iPhones?
I’m working on an app for iPhones and android devices. I’m trying to figure which smartphones the app will run in.
In the case of the iPhone, I’ve seen that developers tend to develop the app so that ...
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Why do most smartphones have the charging slot at the bottom?
Most of the modern smartphones have the charging slot at the bottom. Purely from a UX point of view, wouldn't it make more sense to have it at the top instead? I understand in some cases, it wouldn't (...
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Has there been any research on one-handed Dvorak layout and smartphone (swipe) keyboard travel distance?
The Dvorak simplified keyboard is optimised for low finger travel distance, leading to faster typing and less wrist pain compared to the Qwerty layout. On a smartphone, most people effectively only ...
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Will users tolerate starting over when their key identification is changed?
The main function of my app:
Two users select each other by phone number
Neither of them is aware of the other at the beginning
Based on certain activities over time, an event happens for both
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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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Using only phone number and 2-step verification as login
Is requiring the user to login using phone number and 2-step verification bad design? I have only seen 2-step verification as an EXTRA layer of protection, not a requirement. The only thing similar is ...
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Developing a native app works like a shortcut - Is this a good approach? [closed]
My company is making a native app for smartphones, which is just using a web view directly linked to one of our web pages.
I'm very skeptical about our approach and looking for better one if exists. ...
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Image size high-fidelity prototype
What is the resolution and image size to use for high-fidelity UX prototypes? I am supply images to someone doing a UX design for smartphones-iphone and android, tablets and desktop--I am wondering if ...
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Landscape vs. Portrait on devices with disabled auto-rotation
We have an app which consists of screens ("Activity" in Android) which mostly enforce landscape mode, because they deal with camera viewing, camera recording, ... Because there are so many of them, ...
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Separate list for call history and messages or all in one list for messenger app UI
I am currently developing the prototype for a call and text messaging client for iOS.
I would like to know what's the best way to display the call history. Currently my idea is that calls are just ...
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In landscape mode on a smartphone, should the positioning of control elements be based on whether the phone points to the right or left?
Imagine a smartphone application, which has a number of control elements in its top row:
Now, if the user rotates the phone to landscape view, it makes sense to rotate the control elements to make ...
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Why colors are set to high saturated in most smarphones?
From the very first time of buying android smartphones, we see those colors which are less realistic. Only few percentage of people change it by going deep level down inside settings.
Why it is set ...
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Multilayered form with multiple options in smartphone
I want to ask about multilayered options from the view of UI and UX. I need to make a form in Android about coverage area in which contains states, city and districts. User can choose multiple states ...
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Keyboard layout for (learning to / switching) hands
I would like to know, if keyboards had songs for flipping the keyboard along the vertical axis of the phone's display, than would that happen someone who wanted to learn how to key in or swipe keys ...
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Why aren't dynamic phone ringtones more mainstream?
Considering that we are being yelled at by electronic devices at a high rate, why don't we have dynamic, synthesized notification sounds in our electronic devices?
Our brains can pick up nuanced ...
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Why do manufacturers allow Android's 'takeover'?
This is a question that I was wondering for quite some time. To provide some background, I bought a few physical devices with different screens and operative systems so we could test apps at the ...
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Why do most smartphones not have a physical keyboard?
The vast majority of smartphones sold today use a 'bar' or 'slate' form-factor, with a large screen which uses an on-screen keyboard.
Blackberry are the one obvious manufacturer who still produce ...
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What is the best mobile number authorization strategy?
In recent years, mobile number has become an important factor for authentication and hence more and more enterprises employ methods to capture their users' mobile numbers using SMS.
In a typical ...
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Are smartphones accessible or operable by blind people?
I saw a number of apps on the appStore (e.g. Aipoly) that are aimed at assisting the blind people with object and colour recognition. Before touch screen smartphones I can imagine that the tactile ...
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Multiple notifications for the same thing
I am not a UX expert but since I work in internet space I have some interest in it.
I am slightly bothered by multiple notifications for the same thing I receive on my mobile phone (I use android). ...
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Smartphone indicator light colors - conventional meaning?
This is something I noticed on my Android device. When you have a notification, there's a slowly pulsing notification light when your phone is sleeping.
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This light comes in different colors, I'...
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What color smartphone provides the best viewing experience?
This question is not as subjective as it sounds.
Some background...
Smartphones are commonly sold in black, white, silver, gold, and occasionally other colors. This is slightely dated (2013), but I'...
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Why the hardware button of mobile devices is not placed at the front?
The button at the bottom front of iPod/iPhone/iPad/Samsung is great UX. Why other mobile manufacturers don't offer such a button at the front as well? Most smartphones have a hardware button on the ...
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How to transform desktop UI to smartphone UI?
I have a live demo here, based on HTML, CSS, JS and Metronic. It's currently planned to be displayed on desktops, yet it's quite responsive (a little bit...) and I'd like to convert it to be displayed ...
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What percent of non-English-native people use English system language on their phone?
tl;dr: "What proportion of Spanish (or some other non-English native) people use English as their phone language?"
I am writing an Android app. I plan to publish it primarily in a specific country. ...
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Patterns for a wizard inside an Android tablet/phone app
We are rebuilding a banking application for Android tablet and phone. With this banking application you are able to create a savings account. The creation process for phone currently exists out of a ...
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Side-by-side examples of skeuomorphic vs flat design? [closed]
Googling for what's news in Android Lollipop, I came across the concept of skeuomorphic design for the first time. I understand that this term means a digital design that retains aesthetic features ...
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Why are smartphones getting so big? [closed]
It seems there is now a global trend among smartphone manufacturers, which is to make them bigger, over and over.
It reached a point where they have to make "mini" phones which often are low-end knock-...
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Modal vs Non-Modal [duplicate]
I'm making an app that works on phones and tablets and allows the users to annotate an image. The user drags over an annotation mark and enters data related to the mark. The user may also draw on the ...
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Why do most smartphones need to hold the power button in order to startup?
All of the smartphones I've owned required to hold down the power button for several seconds (ranging from 3 to 8 in some cases) in order to startup from a shutdown state. I've wondered why was such a ...
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Best way to have volume buttons on phone?
I've been curious about how the volume buttons for phones could be improved and how they currently work.
There are a couple different things that can be changed:
Ringer volume
Playback volume (...
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Deliverables to development Team - Mobile project (iOs and Android)
Do yo know how many mockups and what kind and type of deliverable a Visual designer should deliver to development team?
For example, let me know if this is correct. For each page we should deliver:
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Should we bring back the user to the ABC mode on the SmartPhone keyboard automatically after they have entered some symbols/numbers/punctuation?
Should we bring back the user to the ABC mode on the SmartPhone keyboard automatically after they have entered some symbols/numbers/punctuation marks?
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Is there a way to test apps in different environments online
As a UX designer, I like to test apps on different platforms and different devices. I can do this on my iPhone, Android 7" tablet, and soon, Nexus 5. But I'd like to test this a lot on iPad (which to ...
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Why don't most smartphones have front facing speakers?
It would seem to be most practical to have front facing speakers (other then for calls). I can think of at least one model that has this, and I know the iphone has "bottom" facing speakers, but why ...
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What is the difference between Mobile Banking and Tablet Banking in terms of Design and User Experience?
I am a researcher in a team that has developed a Mobile Banking app for Smartphones (iOS, Android and Windows Phone) and now there is a request to develop that same app for Tablets. I think smart ...
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Why do many/most (Android) phones have the power button opposite the volume buttons?
I have just bought a Nexus 5 phone. I love the phone, but like my previous two phones it gives me grief when turning the thing on or off. The problem is that the power button is almost directly ...
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How usable is it to present user with map rather than a list of places, on mobile phones?
I'm interested in seeing a tested study, or at least something more valid than personal opinions, if smartphone users find it usable or not usable to be taken onto map view rather than to a list of ...
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Overriding the default input method on smartphones
I am currently working on a project on which I'm asked to design a virtual keyboard that would replace the default one when a user needs to fill a form on the mobile version of all our websites and ...
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Chinese Smart phone keyboard
Do the Chinese Smart phone keyboard need a lot of keys on their keyboard compared to the simple generic iOS keyboard that we see currently?
(iOS has less keys and its simple to look at. Compare it to ...
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