Articles about Mobile
Best Practices for Asian Language Site Localization
Localizing your site for Asia may mean a radically different design, brand-new elements, or country-specific SEO. [Read More]
Growth Development: A Chinese Chasing Game to More Users
Chinese technology companies like Weibo and Alibaba are using UX to scale their businesses by turning their customer base into a fan base. [Read More]
Tracking User Behavior with Big Data: A Model for Detecting Pain Points in the User Experience
A combination of strategic quantitative tracking and qualitative follow-up can reveal hidden problems within a product that have meaningful business and user experience implications. [Read More]
Little Red Sprite Learns Finance: An Exploration of Mobile Diary Studies Using Avatars and Chat Apps
Mobile diary studies using chat apps provide an opportunity to gather richer data about users’ interactions. Using avatars to facilitate data collection can be more effective than traditional facilitation methods due to the norms of chat app platforms. [Read More]
Hold the Phone: A Primer on Remote Mobile Usability Testing
Remote mobile usability testing has its challenges. Understanding the basic requirements for the tools used to conduct these tests will help you select the best one for your studies. [Read More]
Gamification of Learning: An Asian Perspective
Schools in Asia are actively exploring the use of mobile applications, augmented reality, and virtual reality to enhance the motivation and engagement of students. [Read More]
Mobile Apps for Emerging Markets: Reaching an Audience of 215 Million
Designing mobile apps for emerging markets with more than 60 languages and 215 million people requires a balance of designing, technology, user experience, and simplicity. [Read More]
Feature Fake: Exploring and Testing Connected Mobile Prototypes
Exploring interactive, mobile products needs realistic interaction. Faking features and connectivity can help make wearables seem real enough to test early concepts. [Read More]
Website Translation: Deciding How and What to Translate
With the growth of global websites designed for mobile access, translating website content into multiple languages is becoming more important, especially for global businesses. [Read More]
A Curated Selection of Practical Tips and Advice (Book Review)
A review of The Mobile Frontier by Rachel Hinman. A guide for people starting out in designing mobile experiences. [Read More]
Trust in Mobile Shopping: An Empirical Study
Mobile commerce is quickly creating an impact within North America and world economies. How can we design the mobile experience to help promote trust? [Read More]
QR Codes: Don’t Hide the Magic
When adopting Quick Response (QR) codes tell users why they should scan the code and make sure it takes them to a mobile-friendly site. [Read More]
Mobilize: Make Good Things Come in Small Packages
How do you squeeze a feature-rich math desktop program into a lightweight mobile app? Start with the features most users need for most tasks. [Read More]
Making Everything Fit (Book Review)
A review of Responsive Web Design by Ethan MarcotteMaking a case and practical instruction for creating a design that scales based on platform. [Read More]
The Magic of Mobile Money Identification
How do blind people identify U.S. bills and other currency without help? Affordable mobile apps are liberating those with low vision. [Read More]
The Fate of a Digital Slate
A low-cost tablet prototype for assisting in the tracking of child malnutrition in rural India encountered socio-technical challenges beyond usability in field test. [Read More]
Home Front Help
Through particpatory design sessions followed by usability assessments, recruited veteran caregivers design a pilot application that really improves their lives. [Read More]
A Call For Help
Humanitarian agencies using mobile money find a promising way to deliver cash-based assistance to people in need, yet there are UX challenges to be solved. [Read More]
Mobile Data Collection
Save time and minimize errors in surveys using a comprehensive mobile-based solution that makes it easier for researchers to collect reliable field data. [Read More]
The Money Machine
User-centered design. persusive theory, and mobile technology assist in designing a financial application that promotes positive change in behaviors. [Read More]
Mobile Money for Financial Inclusion in India
Mobile technologies will play a pivotal role in realizing universal access to banking services, but there are many more challenges ahead. What's next for UX designers? [Read More]
Where to Begin Work in Mobile UX: Digesting the Expert Advice
10 tips for mobile usability testing, 5 top questions to consider, UX design guidelines, creating mobile sketches, and lots more in the world of mobile. [Read More]
Editor’s Note: The World is Mobile
The theme for this issue is Beyond Books. It has a nice balance of research- and design-related topics, ranging from note-taking, making sense of user feedback, and report writing to designing for entertainment and persuasion. [Read More]
Engaging with Mental Health: Opportunity for Collaboration
Collaboration between human-computer interaction (HCI) and mental health professionals can play a valuable role in future research on mental health technologies. [Read More]
Accounting for Social Change in Design
Designing for social change does not mean using design to change society. It means design that takes into account the fact that it will change society. [Read More]
Ghana Calling: Dust, Multiple SIMs, and Music Sharing
Everyday mobile phone use in Accra, Ghana, has some unique challenges, but it is similar to mobile phone use in other parts of the world. [Read More]
Mobile Technology: Design for Social Change
When designing mobile UIs for use in developing markets and we must adhere to the first rule of user experience design, “Know your users,” [Read More]
What’s News: Mommy, Can I Play with Your iPhone?
The Woogie, a stuffed animal into which you can insert your iPhone, helps childproof your phone, however parents must monitor the content their children view. [Read More]
Superphone to the Rescue!
Cell phones with kid finders and one button emergency calls. Music on a memory stick. [Read More]
Forms on the Go: Usable Forms for the Mobile Web
Designing forms for the mobile web confronts unique challenges that are difficult to test and are not completely in the developer’s control. [Read More]
The Truth is Out There: Using Mobile Technology for Experience Sampling
Research "in the wild," where people use the interfaces we design, test, iterate, and develop can be conducted on users mobile phones. [Read More]
What’s News: Kindling
Review of the Kindle, Amazon's wireless reading device. [Read More]
What Shall We Watch Tonight? Using Mobile Devices to Plan TV Viewing
A range of usability challenges remain with Interactive Television (iTV) capable devices including how to integrate existing collaborative viewing practices within emerging iTV technologies. [Read More]
You Can Run but You Cannot Hide: Mobile phone video cameras in social situations
Mobile phones with video cameras and sharing capabilities offer the opportunity—or the danger—of worldwide visibility. [Read More]
What’s News: Function Fatigue and Feature Frustration
Manufacturers are starting to realize that usability, rather than more features, can be a successful way to differentiate their products. [Read More]
