The Things Users Would Appreciate In Mobile Apps The Things Users Would Appreciate In Mobile Apps Preethi Sam 2024-04-05T12:00:00+00:002024-04-07T04:35:14+00:00 Remember the “mobile first” mantra? The idea was born out of the early days of responsive web design. Rather than design and build for the “desktop” up front, a “mobile-first” approach treats small screens as first-class citizens. There’s a reduced amount of real estate, certainly less than the number of pixels we get from the viewport of Firefox expanded fullscreen on a 27-inch studio monitor. The constraint is a challenge to make sur ..read more

Accessible Target Sizes Cheatsheet Accessible Target Sizes Cheatsheet Vitaly Friedman 2023-04-27T12:00:00+00:002023-04-27T20:35:54+00:00 Rage taps are annoying and frustrating. These wonderful occurrences in our interface when we need to tap twice, or sometimes three times to continue our journeys. Of course sometimes they happen because the website is too slow, but sometimes it’s the target size of interactive elements that is the culprit. Rage Taps, a Metric for User Frustration, by Colin Contreary (Large preview) So how big should our interactive elements be these days? What would be a rel ..read more

Picture Perfect: Meet Pixo, A Photo Editor For Your End Users Picture Perfect: Meet Pixo, A Photo Editor For Your End Users Hristo Chakarov 2023-02-09T09:00:00+00:002023-02-10T00:32:55+00:00 This article is sponsored by Pixo There are plenty of services nowadays that work with photos. Retouched images usually fulfill their purposes much better than raw ones. If you develop a service that allows its users to upload photos, wrapping a photo editing tool right in the service prior to uploading could save much time for your end users. Even though there is a large amount of photo editing software ..read more

Is Redesigning Your Mobile App A Bad Idea? Is Redesigning Your Mobile App A Bad Idea? Suzanne Scacca 2020-07-14T11:00:00+00:002023-01-20T07:03:07+00:00 I’m all for updating and upgrading mobile apps. I think if you’re not constantly looking at ways to improve the user experience, it’s just too easy to fall behind. That said, a redesign should be done for the right reasons. If it’s an existing app that’s already popular with users, any changes made to the design or content should be done in very small, incremental, strategic chunks through A/B testing. If your app is experiencing serious issues ..read more

The Ultimate Guide To Push Notifications For Developers The Ultimate Guide To Push Notifications For Developers Lee Munroe 2022-04-18T11:30:00+00:002023-01-20T07:03:07+00:00 I’ve spent the past several years building messaging tools — for more than three years now I’ve been leading the design team at OneSignal, a customer engagement platform that enables developers and marketers to send transactional and promotional messages via push, in-app, email and SMS. I’ve learned a lot about how messaging works including the pros and cons of using push to communicate with your audience. In this post, I ..read more

A Complete Guide To Mobile App Marketing A Complete Guide To Mobile App Marketing Sona Dabaghyan 2022-03-11T12:00:00+00:002023-01-20T07:03:07+00:00 How often have you searched for apps in a certain category and considered downloading one below the first three or four results in the list? Rarely, I’d bet. The apps that appear in the top search results in app stores are there thanks to successful mobile app marketing. This article covers the ins and outs of mobile app marketing and walks you through upcoming mobile app marketing trends to look out for. The mobile app marketing funnel might at fi ..read more

Fitts’ Law In The Touch Era Fitts’ Law In The Touch Era Steven Hoober 2022-02-09T12:00:00+00:002023-01-20T07:03:07+00:00 When I started writing Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces, I would regularly find an interesting topic or tangent that led far into the weeds, and had to stop myself from pursuing it too far. I didn’t want to become a hermit who dies with a never completed fifteen-volume work on a constantly-shifting topic. But many are worth chatting about independently, and one that you might enjoy is Fitts’ Law, and how it works with touchscreens. Most interactive designers of any sort wi ..read more

Meet “Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces”, A New Smashing Book Meet “Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces”, A New Smashing Book Vitaly Friedman 2022-02-01T13:00:00+00:002023-01-20T07:03:07+00:00 How do we design for touch in 2022? Mobile and touch are the new default for computing, but there are still many myths, rumors, errors and out-of-date practices on how to design for them. Let’s change that! In our brand-new book Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces, Steven Hoober shares his in-depth research and guidelines on designing for touch. You’ll learn how people hold devices and interact with inter ..read more

Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt) Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt) Steven Hoober 2021-12-15T11:30:00+00:002023-01-20T07:03:07+00:00 This article is sponsored by Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces The personal computer (PC) is still assumed to only be used at a desk-like workstation, in discrete sessions of work with the user focused entirely on the computer. Mobile devices have always been different from “computers” in that they are always on (there’s no need to turn them on to start or end work), always with us (not just ..read more

Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober Vitaly Friedman 2021-11-16T16:00:00+00:002023-01-20T07:03:07+00:00 Mobile and touch are the new normal for computing, but there remain a lot of myths, rumors, errors, bias, and out-of-date information on how portable touchscreens are used. Let’s change that! In our brand-new book Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces, Steven Hoober shares his in-depth research about designing for touch as well as tips, tricks, trends, tendencies, guidelines, a ..read more