Questions tagged [mobile-application]
A software application designed to run on smartphones, tablet computers and other mobile devices.
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How should I arrange and label action buttons in a mobile food journal entry wizard?
I’m designing a mobile app food journal where users can add food items or pictures.
For the initial “add food” flow, I’m considering a wizard-style form with the following inputs:
Food item name
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How to handle sign in where users can sign in to two accounts simultaneously in one app?
I'm trying to figure out how to provide users the ability to view features from two separate account types in the one view.
For example: each of these accounts records users' transaction histories. ...
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Show multiple options on mobile app for notifications
I am developing an alarm system mobile app. The device controlled by it has multiple events. For example, when a sensor is activated it sends a notification, or when It runs out of battery it sends a ...
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When and why should a native app use an in-app web browser instead of linking out to the system browser?
In many (mostly iOS/Android) native apps, when you press a link, it opens within an embedded browser within the app. However, some apps don't do this and instead open directly within the operating ...
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Displaying instructions in mobile app?
I'm working on an app that shows the price of a product, and the end-user can update the picture for the product selected. The app will only be available for mobile phones (both iphone and android/...
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What's the best way to remind someone to re-send an invite in app?
Working on a social app. I am going to invite friends via share link. But a requirement is that there is some form of in-app reminder. How do I go about designing this? Would push notifications work? ...
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How to get users to scroll more on a page when the affordance of the mobile app screen does not offer so? [duplicate]
Users are typically not used to scrolling on certain screens on mobile apps like say a post transaction screen where the transaction is confirmed and/ or the user may be looking at delivery details. ...
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Best way to present user details for review. Single vs multiple pages?
My application has 3 sections (20 pieces of data in total) and the user can part-complete an application and pick it up again later to finish. If I wanted the user to review their previously entered ...
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Is Auto-save feature required after user clears forms
My question is specific to mobile app where we have list of forms and save as a draft option.
I am confused on one of the scenarios mentioned below
User opens a draft form with previously filled ...
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Usability testing with Voice Controls
We are a team of 20+ currently working on an onboarding experience for an app. A significant majority of our target users will be using voice controls to navigate the experience. Normally our ...
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For mobile apps, usability of search textboxes with different colors?
This may sound like a stupid question, but here goes.
Is there some type of usability purpose to having a white search textbox with a border as opposed to a border-less textbox with a "disabled&...
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First letter uppercase or lowercase for a mobile app name
I'm designing an ai based mobile app and i was curious about using uppercase or lowercase letter as first letter of an app gives any difference in user likes. I wanted to know if people prefer capital ...
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Top horizontal scrollbar
Currently, the app I am working on has a horizontal scroll bar on the top of the app (something similar to Amazon’s top scroll bar). However, the names of the pages/categories are quite long, so the ...
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Most intuitive way to point towards scrollable content in mobile app?
So I've recently developed this very basic MCQ (Multi Choice Questions) app which presents user with a question and four choices (answers) out of which they have to pick one. Upon pressing "Next&...
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Explaining button functionality on mobile app?
I'm working on an app design for updating item prices at different department stores. Essentially, the user updates the app prices by taking a picture of the actual price and the backend processes the ...
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Text resizing in iOS and Android apps
Doing a bit of benchmarking, looking for applications that are well responsive when Text resizing (accessibility).
Does anyone know any good examples of applications that look good when text resizing?
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Bottom sheet on a mobile chat app?
So I'm on Conversational AI design project for a mobile app and wanted to know if a bottom sheet can be used in a chat?
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iOS Sheet or Modal? Can You Help Me Identify Use Cases?
Okay, I've been struggling to find an answer for this in the Apple HIG guidelines, so I'll ask here.
In the attached image, what is the difference between the three screen types?
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iOS Action Sheets - Native or Custom?
What is best practice for styling Action Sheets in iOS? I see examples out there using the simple native iOS component, while others customize it to match their style and brand.
Is there a best ...
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Best way of showing filter options in list/reports mobile app
I need to display reports (long list of items) in my mobile app (in Flutter), along with search and filter options. Currently, I'm presenting filters in a pop-up, but I'm looking to improve this. I ...
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Push notification when app is killed by the user?
My team is wanting to find a way to notify the user that when swiping up to kill our app, certain features/functionality will be compromised. We have thought about adding some information in the ...
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Whats the best, most functional but also aesthetic way to display nested list data?
I'm looking for a technique for showing nested object data/additional data in a list view. As a policy, only one list view tile will be expanded to show additional data at a time, so that it doesn't ...
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UI/UX when showing a ton of data on a small mobile device
I need to show a ton of data and make it look good.
Heres my current list view:
Heres what i think is "nicer":
And heres another idea with table switches:
Some guidance is appreciated. Im ...
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Links for apps on desktop version websites
A client asked me to place the download links of the new application for Android and IOs from their online store on the general website. I explained that these links are usually buttons in modal ...
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Best way to show a rating/score which also needs to be an apparent button
I've been stuck on a presentable design solution for some time now. I'm trying to simplify the UI so the user can see the ratings/score for all (Affordability, Scenery and Safety) for a specific ...
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Navigating to subpage from multiple locations
Let's assume the following Navigation Hierarchy:
RootPage1
-> SubPage1
RootPage2
RootPage3
All RootPages are accessible from the NavBar.
RootPage1 has a button that navigates the user to SubPage1.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Using a single text field with auto type detection in an app
We want to increase the number of accepted fields in our app that people use as identifiers to transfer to. We currently have mobile number and email , however we intend to increase to add personal id ...
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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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How to design a rating scale for only positive entries?
Would love to get some thoughts on this: I am working on an app that will allow users to rate their entries, e.g., on a scale from 1 to 5. The UX challenge, however, is that all entries are positive (...
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What are low-tech mock-ups? and how they can be designed? [duplicate]
In app development what are low-tech mock-ups? How they look exactly? and what tools are used to design them? Is it the same tools used in app development? or are there specific ones?
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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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How would I go about designing a home screen whose sole purpose is navigating to other [5] pages?
The homescreen really only needs 5 buttons that navigate to other screens. there isn't much more to show in this page since they are static screens.
This is what the homepage looks like:
I've tried ...
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Best Viewed in Our App Experience
Due to time constraints, we need to launch a specific experience. An email goes out, if the user has the app, the link brings the user directly into the app. If the user does not have the app, it ...
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Why do Google Photos use rounded checkboxes in their app? [closed]
I know people asked this question a decade ago. (Are round check boxes confusing or an accepted standard?)
So, after all these years, has this become a standard in terms of usability? Or is it purely ...
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The ideal Splash Screen for mobile applications should be animated or static?
The manager asks for animated Splash screen, but I am against it, since the animation can slow down and annoy the user, but what do you think?
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Any insights for best practise to make app bottom navigation dynamic based on activity?
I am working on this enterprise app, where user who he is an admin after first time login, performs some initial tasks. After completing these initial tasks, his primary role will be to look over the ...