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Best Practices And ExamplesDesigning A Better Mobile Checkout Process

From Derek Nelson
March 14th, 2013
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A record number of shoppers are turning to their smartphones to research potential purchases. Meanwhile, the bigger question — are those same users willing to complete the purchases on their mobile device? — is quickly being answered. The US, for example, saw an 81% spike in mobile e-commerce (m-commerce) sales in 2012, ...

UX Design Q&A Account Creation, Standalone Mobile Websites, And Dealing With Non-UX Designers

From Christian Holst
February 7th, 2013
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Editor’s note: Welcome to Smashing Magazine UX Design Q&A. It works like this: you send in questions you have about UX Design, and each month we’ll pick a handful of questions asked by our readers about best practices in designing smart and usable experiences. They will be answered by Christian Holst, ...

Boost Your Mobile E-Commerce Sales With Mobile Design Patterns

From Will Hacker
December 19th, 2012
21 Comments

People are increasingly using their smartphones as a replacement for desktop computers, even for activities such as shopping and purchasing. And as more people move away from the desktop and onto mobile-optimized websites to shop for products and services, website creators can use established design patterns to help kickstart a ...

Removing Stumbling Blocks In Mobile Forms

From Robert Brauer
May 3rd, 2012
13 Comments

A few weeks ago, I was quite surprised when I saw the pavement quickly approaching while I was out for a walk. Laying there stunned, I soon realized what had happened: I fell. Ouch. B-minus. I normally try to be as attentive as possible, but this time a big crack in ...

Not Your Parent’s Mobile Phone: UX Design Guidelines For Smartphones

From Tim R. Todish
October 6th, 2011
15 Comments

In your pocket right now is the most powerful “remote control” (as Drew Diskin put it) that has ever existed. It is no ordinary remote control. It can harness everything that all of the previous mass media (television, radio, Internet, etc.) can do. People aren’t using them just for simple ...

Seven Guidelines For Designing High-Performance Mobile User Experiences

From Ivo Weevers
July 18th, 2011
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A positive first impression is essential to relationships. People look for trust and integrity, and they expect subsequent encounters to reflect and reinforce their first impression. The same principles apply to brands and their products. Design plays an important role in building lasting relationships with end users and, thus, in ...

A User-Centered Approach To Web Design For Mobile Devices

From Lyndon Cerejo
May 2nd, 2011
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For the past few years, we’ve heard pundits declaring each year as “year of the mobile Web”; each year trying to sound more convincing than the previous. Whether 2011 will be the real “year of the mobile” remains to be seen, but what is indisputable is the fact that the ...

Mobile Auto-Suggest on Steroids: Tap-Ahead Design Pattern

From Smashing Editorial
April 27th, 2011
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In contrast to desktop Web search, auto-suggest on mobile devices is subject to two additional limitations: typing avoidance and slower bandwidth. The new patent-pending design pattern, Tap-Ahead, uses continuous refinement to create an intuitive, authentically mobile auto-suggest solution. This helps dramatically reduce the amount of typing needed to enter queries, ...

Forms On Mobile Devices: Modern Solutions

From Luke Wroblewski
March 11th, 2010
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Mobile forms tend to have significantly more constraints than their desktop cousins: screens are smaller; connections are slower; text entry is trickier; the list goes on. So, limiting the number of forms in your mobile applications and websites is generally a good idea. When you do want input from users ...