UX Design for Mobile

Share functionality

We are social by nature, and this affects our way of seeing the world. People like to be connected. Group feeling is closely related to our evolution as a species, and this also affects how we interact with applications. This is represented in those applications in various ways; following somebody, connecting, making friends, or sharing content are some of them.

Each app can develop its own social terms depending on the purpose of the app. Sharing is one of the core terms often found in all kinds of social applications, but it may be represented in different ways. Each platform has created its own design patterns for this functionality, which means that we find different icons that mean the same thing. However, not all ...