Collapsible Content Blocks

Do you ever find yourself scrolling repeatedly to view the contents of an entire mobile page? Although this may be a good workout for your finger it can be a cumbersome user experience when users must scroll repeatedly. If you are looking for a more usable alternative, you may want to consider grouping your content into collapsible content blocks.

TIP: Collapsible content blocks have several advantages when compared to an inline page structure. First, we can collapse content into segmented groups to make them all visible within a single view (see Figure 6–10). And secondly, our users will be more efficient because we have eliminated scrolling from the user experience.

Figure 6–10. Content block (all blocks collapsed) ...

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