Tag Archives: usability

Mobile Sites vs. Apps: The Coming Strategy Shift (Jakob Nielsen)

February 18, 2012 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

1. Current Mobile Strategy: Apps Best
2. Future Mobile Strategy: Sites Best
3. When Will the Strategy Shift Happen?

To conclude: I do believe mobile sites will win over mobile apps in the long term. But when that will happen is less certain. Today, if you are serious about creating the best possible mobile user experience, my advice is to develop apps.

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Best Practices of Touch Screen Interface Design

May 17, 2011 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

  1. Response speed should be of utmost importance.
  2. More space comes in at a close second to speed.
  3. Intuitiveness of your design also becomes a heightened concern.
  4. Ambidextrous design must come into consideration in the touch screen world.
  5. Bright background colors or patterns can hide glare and reduce fingerprints.
  6. Touch screen interfaces are more suited to information retrieval than data entry.
  7. Be aware of screen coverage.
  8. Problems with eye-finger and eye-stylus parallaxes lend even more credence to the argument for big, fat areas to press with plenty of space between them.Best to worst operations: Point, select > Position, orient (rotate), define path > Enter values > Enter text.

So, basically, touch screen interface’s are great for data retrieval, pretty good for data manipulation, and are kinda awful for data entry.

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