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Best Practices For Mobile UX Design

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Max Smith
Best Practices For Mobile UX Design

Basically, there are several things that every UI/UX designer needs to understand in order to create a responsive user-friendly app.

The devil, as it is well-known, is hiding in the details, so a list of juicy details woud start with..

1. Tab Navigation Bar vs Hamburger Menu.

The difference between these two is noticeable for everyone who has ever worked with the mobile interfaces, startups and user experience best practices. In substance, the hamburger menu (or hamburger button) is a button placed typically in a top corner of a graphical user interface. It takes the form of an icon that consists of three parallel horizontal lines (displayed as ☰), suggestive of a list, and is named for its resemblance to the layers in hamburgers, pancakes, or a hotdog in a bun.

2. Interface Modality.

Remember the annoying alert screen that wakes you up every single morning? Well, the design term for this kind of interaction is modality. As a part of iOS Human Interface Guidelines, modality plays an essential role in building an interface-user dialog. The term modality in design basically means that a message or a task-complete overlays the app’s screen, and user in his turn needs to make a choice whether to dismiss that or to read/view a message. Also, instead of the well-known back arrow you can generally spot an x icon, for the purpose of canceling the modal view. The x icon is of a high importance here, as users need to spot a safe and obvious way to dismiss the modal task. Modality can also be presented in 4 parts:

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