July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
354 pages
9h 58m
English
Content preview from UX Design for Mobile
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Placing actions in the screen to facilitate navigation
Mobile screens are generally getting bigger over the recent years. While the first iPhones had a screen of 3.5 inches, new iPhones and Android devices have screens of 5 inches and more. That makes it more important to locate the most often used actions near the thumb area:
Bigger screens (right) have difficult access to the upper area when the mobile is used with one hand
On a research, Steven Hoober discovered that 49% of the people use the mobile with one hand (http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2013/02/how-do-users-really-hold-mobile-devices.php).