July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
354 pages
9h 58m
English
Content preview from UX Design for Mobile
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Bottom menu
This is the most common layout for iOS apps. In Android, we have spent several years where this distribution was not the most popular; however, the current trend of many applications is to use a bottom menu in both the versions: Android and iOS.
Some applications such as YouTube are testing different versions of the menu; in the upper area (left) and at the bottom (right). Edited screenshots from the YouTube application to remove content (source: Screenshots from YouTube App)
The bottom menus are close to the user's thumb, so they allow them to change sections without too much effort, which is a big advantage over the menus located ...