NOTE: Much of this content is based on two earlier blog entries I wrote here a while back in 2009, so I added some additional and more recent details to come up with this revised version… Prescreening users First, prescreen your…
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What is the next frontier in mobile UX/UI design?
Three things that are going to be a big focus for mobile UX/UI designers in the years to come: Voice Interaction: Accessing information from your mobile device or the cloud through speech is here now, but we "turn it on"…
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What are the big topics in mobile user interface design discussions in 2013?
Web vs. native apps. Still. While the majority of companies are pretty firmly in the "native app" space, there are still debates and discussions taking place around HTML 5 and it's capabilities. The problem is, HTML 5 can't do everything…
UX Articles
Lessons in #UX: It’s not about “channels”, it’s about doing things
I’ve been in lots of business meetings discussing mobile and/or tablet “strategies” lately, and I often shake my head at what I hear proposed by people who, frankly, should know better. Too many of these proposals are about features and…
Technology, UX Articles
Native Mobile Apps Offer Advantages Over “Wrapper Apps” for Financial Services
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What are best practices for mobile UX?
Apple, Technology
The future, predicted: How Apple can “own” mobile payments (UPDATED!)
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Which mobile apps offer a perfect user experience?
Perfect is the enemy of good, and perfect is also a very high bar to achieve. I don't know if I'd say that the following are perfect, but they ae very good indeed: Simplenote let's you take notes and write.…
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UX for Mobile: What are the best methods for doing contextual user research for mobile?
Here’s what I did when I did a contextual research project around mobile usage and habits two years ago: First, I interviewed people. A lot of people. 30 people in three different states. I asked them about how they used…
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Why are our "smart devices" so dumb?
There are some practical reasons, and some pragmatic ones. A "thinking" device is a device that is consuming power to think (to run the processor), and hardware and software designers have to keep a core user need in mind: battery…
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What do users expect on the mobile website of a bank?
Depends on the user and their intent. When you ask what their expectation is, if you do not keep their goals in mind you can’t get a definitive answer. I’ll try and propose some potential goals and then respond with…
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What should be considered in terms of accessibility standards when designing mobile apps?
First, try and keep things simple. Don’t go nuts with a lot of the interactive elements that touch devices enable. Use structured hierarchies that are obvious and short, and follow the base design conventions of the platform you are designing…