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smashingmagazine.com

Mobile Accessibility Barriers For Assistive Technology Users

Accessibility goes beyond making products user-friendly. It can significantly impact the quality of life for people with disabilities.

uxdesign.cc

Mobile search: which pattern should you choose?

We’re going to try to help you choose the optimal search option for your mobile application.

uxdesign.cc

Sheet, dialog, or snackbar — what should a designer go for?

Identifying established patterns in the market.

scottjehl.com

We’re Bringing Responsive Video Back!

Let’s revisit responsive HTML video delivery and talk about when we can use it again and how close we are to cross-browser compatibility

nngroup.com

Bottom Sheets: Definition and UX Guidelines

A bottom sheet is a user-interface pattern used commonly in mobile apps for providing contextual details or controls in the lower area of the screen.

smashingmagazine.com

Accessible Target Sizes Cheatsheet

Practical guidelines to prevent rage taps and rage clicks with accessible tap targets for icons, links and buttons.

medium.com

Designing Zenly: Part I

Hello, I’m Julien, former Head of Design at Zenly. I’ve been wanting to do this for a while.

nngroup.com

The State of Mobile User Experience

Fifteen years from the original iPhone, the quality of mobile user experience has stabilized.

prabros.com

10 Interface Ideas for Chat Applications

Exploring new interface ideas for touchscreen chat apps.

smashingmagazine.com

Designing The Perfect Mobile Navigation UX

When designing navigation on mobile, we don’t have to rely on slide-in-menus or nested accordions. There are other design patterns, too.

nngroup.com

Accidental Dismissal of Overlays: A Common Mobile Usability Problem

Overlays often need to be dismissed in a manner that goes against users’ expectations.

nngroup.com

Mobile UX: Study Guide

Here’s a list of NN/g’s most useful articles and videos about the mobile user experience.

smashingmagazine.com

Building Web Layouts For Dual-Screen And Foldable Devices

Dual-screen devices are just the next evolution in responsive design.

fastcompany.com

Locket, the #1 app in Apple’s App Store, uses a trick hiding in plain sight

The photo sharing app isn’t just a viral sensation. It figured out how to use widgets the right way.

pimpmytype.com

The ideal line length & line height in web design

Line length & height are crucial to make your text to look pleasant. This article shows how they are interconnected, what to focus on when setting it.

tamagui.dev

Tamagui: React Native + Web UI kit

Universal React design systems that optimize for native & web.

chrbutler.com

What If Phones Were Actually Designed for Hands?

Phones no longer fit in the hands they were made to be held and used by. How did that happen?

css-tricks.com

enterkeyhint

I only just recently learned the enterkeyhint attribute on form inputs was a thing.

uxdesign.cc

The start of a new era for Responsive Web Design

If you’ve been in the web design industry as long as I have, you know one thing is imminent, the only constant is change.

increment.com

Increment: Mobile

This issue reflects on the origins, evolutions, and cornerstones of modern mobile development.