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Mobile App Development

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Mobile App UX Design: Prompting For App Review

“Rate this app!” pop-up dialog has become a common thing and it’s hard to go a few days without being prompted to leave a review. Such requests are pretty annoying in far too many mobile apps today: This lazy approach was critiqued by John Gruber, of Daring Fireball: "I’

Mobile UX Design: What Not To Do

Why do we install apps in the first place? To make our lives convenient. But when an app fails to fulfill this requirement, then it’s for certain that users will go elsewhere. Your app’s success is contingent on a combination of factors, but the overall mobile user experience

Mobile App UX Design: Making a Great First Impression

Did you know it takes only three to five seconds for someone to form a first impression? And while you might wish that opinion were based on person’s intelligence or experience, most studies show that first impressions are shaped by what can be seen or heard in those initial

Mobile UX Design: User Errors

‘Errors’ happens. They happen in our apps and they happen in our life. Sometimes they happen because we made mistakes. Sometimes because a system failed. Whatever the cause, these errors — and how they are handled — can have a huge impact on the way user experiences your app. Often overlooked, a

Mobile UX Design: The Right Ways to Ask Users for Permissions

Did you know that the average app loses 80% [http://andrewchen.co/new-data-shows-why-losing-80-of-your-mobile-users-is-normal-and-that-the-best-apps-do-much-better/] of its daily active users within the first 3 days post-install? Most people download an app, open it once, and delete it. This happens because users try out a lot of apps but decide which ones they

Design Patterns: Progressive Disclosure for Mobile Apps

Before we begin, let’s quickly define design patterns. Design patterns were first introduced by Christopher Alexander, an architect and design theorist who noticed that many things in our activities happen according to patterns: patterns describe a problem and then offer a solution. He adapted his observations to his work

Mobile UX: Great Typography Enables Clear Communication

Communication plays a vital role in design. Whether you design sites or mobile apps, your products have to clearly communicate their intent and purpose. The purpose of text on your site or in app is to establish a clear connection between the app and user and to help your users

Text Fields in Mobile App

Mobile devices have many challenges when it comes to UX design. One of the most obvious design challenges is dealing with the limited screen real estate during tap input. It is critical that product designers, developer and product managers understand the best ways to make this process really simple for

UX Design: Drop-Downs in Forms

Select, or drop-down, menus can be great when used correctly — they conserve screen space and prevent users from entering erroneous data, since they only show legal choices. They come with a lot of nice features, such as grouping options, keyboard navigation and reliable rendering across platforms. And designers employ them

Notifications for Mobile Apps

Designing notifications to be useful and relevant for your users is extremely important. Good notifications give people information and functionality that’s important right now. Mobile apps can use notifications to let people know when interesting things happen, such as: a message has arrived, an event is about to occur,