Smartphone and tablet statistics are showing an incredible adoption rate, putting the spotlight on the mobile web and forcing web developers and designers to adapt to the new environment. This means that there must be created a whole new way of imagining and thinking a website or app.
When doing work for a product that will work on the mobile platform you have to concentrate on things that you usually ignore on websites or apps destined for desktop monitors.
For starters, designing buttons does have its creative freedom, but there are also limitations and guidelines. You can’t put in a dashboard, for example, small buttons of the app’s features because the app will be difficult to use and the whole idea behind deigning mobile apps and websites is making things easier, not harder.
Besides buttons, the location of the User Interface is also an important aspect about designing for mobile. Its ideal placement should be in the bottom right or left corners where users can navigate with their thumb, depending if they’re left or right handed. This, though, creates quite a buzz between designers so we can reduce the placement to just bottom of the screen to avoid comments.
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When doing work for a product that will work on the mobile platform you have to concentrate on things that you usually ignore on websites or apps destined for desktop monitors.
For starters, designing buttons does have its creative freedom, but there are also limitations and guidelines. You can’t put in a dashboard, for example, small buttons of the app’s features because the app will be difficult to use and the whole idea behind deigning mobile apps and websites is making things easier, not harder.
Besides buttons, the location of the User Interface is also an important aspect about designing for mobile. Its ideal placement should be in the bottom right or left corners where users can navigate with their thumb, depending if they’re left or right handed. This, though, creates quite a buzz between designers so we can reduce the placement to just bottom of the screen to avoid comments.
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