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Perfect Menu for Mobile Apps

In both applications and sites, users rely on menus to find content and use features. Menus are so important that you can find them in every site or app you encounter, but not all menus are created equally. Too often we face problems with menus — part of menus are confusing,

In-app Gestures and Mobile App Usability

When Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007, touchscreen-centered interaction got mainstream attention and users learned that they could not tap on the interface but also zoom, pinch and swipe it. Parents are amazed by how fast their children understand how a tablet or smartphone works. And today success of a

Icons as Part of an Awesome User Experience

Due to the limited screen space, we usually replace text labels with icons wherever possible. Icons take less space, they don’t have to be translated, and people are familiar with them after all, right? That’s not always true. Let’s see what does it take to make an

The Most Creative Mobile Navigation Patterns

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 website is if users can’t find their

The Hamburger Icon. To Kill or Not to Kill?

The hamburger icon — three little bars used to indicate a link to a menu. It is easily scaleable and it fits cleanly into a pixel grid. But when the hamburger icon is used in web design it indicates a significant problem. When and why is it used? There are new

Empty State: Mobile App “Nice-to-Have” Essential

The average app loses 77% of its daily active users within the first 3 days post-install. What’s worse: within 30 days, approximately 80% of daily active users are gone [https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/losing-80-mobile-users-normal-why-best-apps-do-better-andrew-chen] . Are these low retention rates a result of poorly made apps? Not always. Users

Microcopy: Tiny Words With A Huge UX Impact

When we think about designing a great user experience, it’s easy to get caught up with all the things. The fonts, the colors, the flows, the content. Everything. But there’s another component to UX that can instantly delight your users that you might be overlooking. I’m talking

Microinteractions: The Secret of Great App Design

The best products do two things well: features and details. Features are what draw people to your product. Details are what keep them there. And details are what actually make our app stand out from our competition. Microinteractions are one of the best techniques for giving delightful feedback. All roads

Golden Rules of User Interface Design

10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design Based upon Ben Shneiderman’s “Designing the User Interface” and Jakob Nielsen’s “Ten Usability Heuristics”, 10 general principles for interaction design. They are called “heuristics” because they are broad rules of thumb and not specific usability guidelines. 1. Strive for consistency Users

How To Make Users Think Your App Loads Faster

When we are designing, we don’t have the means to simulate different loading speeds. So we don’t always design the uncomfortable moments when users must wait for content to display. But internet speeds are not always guaranteed. This is especially true when an image or music is downloading.