In-App Gestures And Mobile App User Experience
Remember the days when hovering and clicking using the mouse were the most used trigger for interaction with site or app? Those days are gone. When Apple…
Developing For Virtual Reality: What We Learned
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With the tools getting more user-friendly and affordable, virtual reality (VR) development is easier to get involved in than ever before. Our team at Clearbridge Mobile recently jumped on the opportunity to develop immersive VR content for the Samsung Gear VR, using Samsung’s 360 camera.
The result is ClearVR, a mobile application demo that enables users to explore the features, pricing, interiors and exteriors of listed vehicles. Developing this demo project gave us a better understanding of VR development for our future projects, including scaling, stereoscopic display and motion-tracking practices. This article is an introductory guide to developing for VR, with the lessons we learned along the way.
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The Thumb Zone: Designing For Mobile Users
If there is one thing that will stand the test of time, it’s thumb placement on mobile devices. This makes consideration of the “thumb zone”, a term coin…
Do negative words impact UX?
I’m interested to know if using negative words impacts the UX.
Let’s say you have a headline for your website. Should you consider "We can help you" instead of "We solve problems" because the word "problems" i…
Reducing Cognitive Overload For A Better User Experience
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The best user experience is the one the user doesn’t notice. It appears smooth and simple on the surface, but hundreds of crucial design decisions have been made to guide, entertain and prevent trouble. If the user experience design does what it’s supposed to do, the user won’t notice any of the work that went into it.
The less users have to think about the interface or design, the more they can focus on accomplishing their goal on your website. Your job as a designer is to give them a straight path to their goal by clearing out the obstacles beforehand.
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Usage of emojis as compared to stickers
The rise and uptake of IM applications has created some interesting ways for users to communicate with each other, with the emergence/popularity of emojis (which could be said to be an evolution of the emoticons) and stickers being the two…
Complex channel based navigation modal
The application I am re-designing has a channel management modal for managing its customers. The admin hierarchy is as follows:
My Company Admins
Channel Admins
Resellers Admins
Customer Admins
End Users
Each Admin can access and man…
Terminology: Long press or Touch & hold?
I’ve seen both versions used in Android. What do you think is the best term to use? I’ve also heard people to use “Long click”, “Long touch” & “Long tap” but I personally don’t like any of those. It would be nice to finally get some st…
Five Rules Of App Localization In China: Money, Dating And App Store
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I recently sat down with Rock Zhang, a Chinese mobile entrepreneur. Rock is my classmate from business school, and we have both worked in the mobile industry for a while. In an age when the best marketing is good product management, Rock knows how to make millions of Chinese users fall in love with an app. I asked him to share his thoughts on app localization.
For me, China has always been a hard market to crack. I’ve marketed several mobile apps in European and US markets, and my apps have been featured many times in the App Stores in Russia, Israel, Spain, Germany and the US. But in China, our growth was stalling, and I don’t think we ever got a request for promotional artwork to be featured in the App Store. Truth be told, my “Asian expansion strategy” usually boiled down to hiring freelance translators through Elance to help me localize App Store pages in Chinese, Korean and Japanese.
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How can I improve add entry tab?
I’m making a UX/UI for Telenor software that we are developing as summer project. How to do the navigation/controls for this Software style:
I’m stuck on how best to do the Add Entry for this tab.
The Problem is: We are using scroll pane…