Chapter 5. Mobile Client User Interface

 

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

 
 --Horace

A mobile client user interface assists the user with issuing instructions and receiving information from applications on the mobile device. A good user interface improves the overall user experience; a poorly designed user interface can jeopardize the mobile application’s usage.

In this chapter, we initially consider the basic input and output (I/O) mechanisms that are used for communication between a user and a mobile device. We then discuss various types of application content and examine the user experience in terms of what a user looks for when using mobile applications. We finally consider a set of best practices for developing mobile client ...

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