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Mobile App Development

A collection of 54 issues

Tabs for Mobile UX Design

Tabs are one of the most used components of mobile UIs. They allow users to quickly move between a small number of equally important views and bring a real world element to the web and mobile applications. When implemented correctly, tabs are considered to be an excellent user interface control

Accessible Interface Design

Part 1: On Designing With Accessible Colors A well-designed product is accessible to users of all abilities, including those with low vision, blindness, hearing impairments or motor impairments. Accessibility enables people with disabilities to perceive and interact with systems and applications. While this series of articles primarily apply to mobile

Mobile UX Design: Sliders

Sliders has been around for a long time and has become the de facto standard for selecting and filtering in apps. However, sliders deserve special consideration from designers — precisely because they make it so easy for users to screw up their queries, leading to results that are either incorrect or

Progress Indicators in Mobile UX Design

Visibility of system status is one of the most important rules of UI design. The goal behind this rule is pretty obvious— to minimize user tension you should provide feedback for the user about what is happening with the app within a reasonable amount of time. Don’t keep the

Animation in Mobile UX Design

Well-designed animations make the experience feel crafted. In a human-centered design approach, where the user is the prime focus, animation actually creates a feeling of well-being once it’s discovered by users. As a designer, recognizing the invisibility of animations is just as important as designing them. Because you have

Using Card-Based Design To Enhance UX

Web and mobile apps move away from pages, towards completely personalized experiences. And this experience built on an aggregation of many individual pieces of content. Cards are the new creative concept. Regardless of how you feel about the concept, cards are here to stay. What are Cards? Cards are those

Mobile UX Design: List View and Grid View

In spite of the modern trend towards larger-screen phones, what makes mobile phones so convenient and portable is their small size. Compared with desktop and even laptop screens, phone screens accommodate a lot less content. Users can only view a small amount of content at a time before they need

UX Design for Mobile: Bottom Navigation

Designers know that design is more than good looks. Design also covers how users engage with a product, whether it’s a website or app. It’s like a conversation. Navigation is a conversation. Because it doesn’t matter how good your site or app is if users can’t

Button UX Design: Best Practices, Types and States

Buttons are an ordinary, every-day element of interaction design. Despite this, because buttons are a vital element in creating a smooth conversational flow in web and apps, it’s worth paying attention to these basic best practices for buttons. Also we’ll go over button types and states — important information

Mobile UX Design: User-Friendly Search

Search is a fundamental mobile activity. Think about it — mobile is much less about creating (unless you are talking about taking pictures or writing an tweet). Instead, mobile devices are used mostly for finding stuff. And an excellent search help users find what they want quickly and easily. We could