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Why do some mobile apps have mute buttons when the device has physical mute & volume switches?
The physical mute and volume buttons affect all other apps too. It's better to have a mute button in your app because as a user I may only want to mute the notifications from your app and not others. ...
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Is there a design pattern for dropdown lists in iOS?
Even though Apple recommended (and surprisingly still recommends) pickers for dropdowns, not even they use it anymore. Spoilers:
In both these cases, the "logic" would dictate to use a dropdown + ...
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How to design friction in an iOS app to prevent accidental action?
First, regarding answer that you linked, I think what Apple was having an issue with is the use of the same UI as their slide to power off, not the use of that UX/interaction. They just don't want it ...
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When and why should we choose rounded corners over smooth corners?
I think it's more of an aesthetic or fashion decision than something inherently functional. Anyway, here's an argument.
Most of the components in an interface are framed within an orthogonal grid, ...
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Does rating on both extremes indicate UX issue?
After looking at some of the reviews, I'm finding a few common problems that relate to UX.
People want to import their own models. They expected this to be an option.
The instructions are unclear. ...
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What is the iOS alternative to a radio button?
Usually this is done using a table view, which is basically a list of items as well, only with a checkmark instead of a radio button. Sometimes such lists are on a new 'page' in the navigation ...
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How to design friction in an iOS app to prevent accidental action?
To send money in my banking app, I must drag a symbol into a target. It is difficult to do accidentally, but quick to accomplish. It may be difficult for someone with limited dexterity or someone who ...
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Down arrow and up arrow status
I'll make this an answer so I can expand on my comment.
Your main problem is not an arrow, icon, color or emoji thing. Your main problem is a conceptual one: you're mixing taxonomies with gradations ...
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How to design friction in an iOS app to prevent accidental action?
I haven't thought this through, but there might be mileage in considering the physical equivalent. On many control panels, such as in power plants or aircraft, the especially dangerous actions have a ...
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Background music in app
Acceptable? Yes, you can have no music, or maybe some generic noisy background if you want to add something to the full audiovisual experience.
Now, unless you're really short on budget, I'd ...
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Down arrow and up arrow status
Perhaps you could use only black for the arrows so that the user knows of the increase or decrease, place them on the left, and then on the right use a "health-bar" style status report which would ...
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Should the label for a switch component be tappable on iOS?
In iOS tapping the label does not enable/disable the switch.
Go with what ever the convention that is part of the respective operating systems, as the users of those systems will expect the ...
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Is it acceptable to use Google Material Design in web applications?
I don't think it's a problem. There are many applications for iOS that use Material Design. Think of all the Google applications (Youtube, GMail, etc) iOS users use on a daily basis.
You might want ...
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Does rating on both extremes indicate UX issue?
Yes, you do.
Something is upsetting a significant portion of your users. The experience they are having is, to put it politely, sub-optimal. Therefore you have a User Experience problem.
I suspect ...
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Is it a strong anti-pattern to use a Floating Action Button in an iOS app?
New in iOS 11 you can find the Floating Action Button within the Notes App. If Apple uses them, you could definitely use them too.
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Why do some mobile apps have mute buttons when the device has physical mute & volume switches?
TL;DR: An app forcing me to use the global mute would be uninstalled in the blink of an eye. So they better have a mute function if they want to use audio at all.
EDIT: The previous was a bit too ...
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Is it acceptable to use Google Material Design in web applications?
Material Design is not "Android design", it's Google's all encompassing design "template" for both mobile and web apps. Many Google web products use Material Design like Angular (https://angular.io/) ...
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Is it a strong anti-pattern to use a Floating Action Button in an iOS app?
Edit (2022): Material Design has been a strong voice in application design for many years now, and many iOS users will have seen the FAB pattern. FABs are not a core experience to iOS and can still ...
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Is the use of username/password in a mobile app needed?
Some users won't want to give a second app access to their Facebook or Google information.
Some apps only require Facebook login (for example) to ensure the identity of the user. This is because it ...
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How to design friction in an iOS app to prevent accidental action?
Additional ideas from this article:
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/01/friction-ux-design-tool/
Delaying the action and allow a window time for users to "undo"
Extra step for security, such as ...
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Using Segmented Controls vs Tab bar
I see the tab used as a primary navigation and placed at the bottom of the screen, whereas the segmented controller is more like a local switch inside a particular screen and is usually placed at the ...
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What control should I use to indicate multi-select lists on iOS?
Apple likes switches
Sliding switches were a nifty looking control way back when. They were one way for iOS to announce
"Hey, look! I like gestures. You should swipe stuff."
In a short list ...
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Can iOS apps be a bit more "adventurous"?
The Apple Human Interface Guidelines are 'Guidelines', not 'rules' - you don't have to follow them entirely, design and build what you like.
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Down arrow and up arrow status
I have always liked these icons, which indicate a trend on a graph. The combined shape and direction of the arrow indicate how the trend is progressing.
I got these from Ionicons: http://ionicons.com/...
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What is the iOS alternative to a radio button?
I wrote a highly customizable radio button control for iOS. It supports both obj-c and swift. Hope it helps!
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Do we really need to ask for password on iOS "login with email" screen?
Your proposal actually complicates things for the user
Current user interaction:
type in email
tap password box
type in password
tap [login] button
Proposed user interaction:
type in email
tap ...
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Is it OK to use hamburger menus in iOS?
If you want to follow Apple's Human Interface Guidelines then you have to think of another pattern, because last year they announced that hamburger menus are not a welcomed sight in iOS applications:
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Why do some mobile apps have mute buttons when the device has physical mute & volume switches?
Just a small extra consideration but I'll make it an answer anyway. I tend to listen to the radio via an app whilst playing casual games so need to be able to choose which app's volume to control. If ...
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Is it a strong anti-pattern to use a Floating Action Button in an iOS app?
If you compare GMAIL user interface itself on the Apple and Android mobiles, the UI is a bit different (user pics and checkboxes - on the left-hand side, etc.).
For the IOS, the GMAIL takes a ...
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