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The current project I amI’m currently working on has one screena project where we displayhave a screen that displays a vertical list of contents which you can scroll vertically and whencontent. When a user taps on the share button on any content it loadsitem, a list of people with whom youthey can share the contentwith appears.

Instead of opening a new screen/activity or activity to show athis list of people, I have shown aI’ve implemented it so the list of people onappears at the bottom of the same screen in the bottom. The list has pictures of peopledisplays each person’s picture along with thetheir name shown below those picture. The listthe image and can be scrolled horizontally.

Problem - I am not sureThe problem: I’m unsure how to make horizontalit obvious. There are several ways to do that the list is horizontally scrollable. I’ve considered a few solutions, but all of themeach has some sort of problemits drawbacks:

Sol 1-Solution 1: Show the last item [picture+name](picture and name) partially visible on the right side of the screen but that does. However, this might look like a UI bug in the apprather than an intentional design choice.

Sol 2 - GiveSolution 2: Add a arrow pointing on the right and when user taps on it,-pointing arrow that users can tap to scroll the list will scroll to the left but that it not natural. If something isBut this feels unnatural since horizontal scrollable people will scroll it horizontally by swiping horizontal

Or may be I amusually works through swipe gestures. Or maybe I’m overthinking that people might not, and users will intuitively understand the horizontal scroll without any extra hints.

The current project I am currently working on has one screen we display a list of contents which you can scroll vertically and when user taps on the share button on content it loads a list of people with whom you can share the content.

Instead of opening a new screen/activity to show a list of people, I have shown a list of people on the same screen in the bottom. The list has pictures of people along with the name shown below those picture. The list can be scrolled horizontally.

Problem - I am not sure how to make horizontal obvious. There are several ways to do that but all of them has some sort of problem

Sol 1- Show the last item [picture+name] partially visible on the screen but that does look like a bug in the app.

Sol 2 - Give a arrow pointing on the right and when user taps on it, the list will scroll to the left but that it not natural. If something is horizontal scrollable people will scroll it horizontally by swiping horizontal

Or may be I am overthinking that people might not understand the horizontal scroll.

I’m currently working on a project where we have a screen that displays a vertical list of content. When a user taps the share button on any content item, a list of people they can share with appears.

Instead of opening a new screen or activity to show this list, I’ve implemented it so the list of people appears at the bottom of the same screen. The list displays each person’s picture along with their name below the image and can be scrolled horizontally.

The problem: I’m unsure how to make it obvious that the list is horizontally scrollable. I’ve considered a few solutions, but each has its drawbacks:

Solution 1: Show the last item (picture and name) partially visible on the right side of the screen. However, this might look like a UI bug rather than an intentional design choice.

Solution 2: Add a right-pointing arrow that users can tap to scroll the list to the left. But this feels unnatural since horizontal scroll usually works through swipe gestures. Or maybe I’m overthinking, and users will intuitively understand the horizontal scroll without any extra hints.

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How to make horizontal scroll obvious?

The current project I am currently working on has one screen we display a list of contents which you can scroll vertically and when user taps on the share button on content it loads a list of people with whom you can share the content.

Instead of opening a new screen/activity to show a list of people, I have shown a list of people on the same screen in the bottom. The list has pictures of people along with the name shown below those picture. The list can be scrolled horizontally.

Problem - I am not sure how to make horizontal obvious. There are several ways to do that but all of them has some sort of problem

Sol 1- Show the last item [picture+name] partially visible on the screen but that does look like a bug in the app.

Sol 2 - Give a arrow pointing on the right and when user taps on it, the list will scroll to the left but that it not natural. If something is horizontal scrollable people will scroll it horizontally by swiping horizontal

Or may be I am overthinking that people might not understand the horizontal scroll.