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 ...