
Mobile NFC (Near Filed Communication) is finally here! Here is the ultimate guide to designing awesome mobile NFC apps your customers will rave about.
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Installment #6 shows how to deliver QR code value by allowing your customers to connect to your company through social networks. As of the date of this writing, many companies have been implementing their social mobile engagement strategy by putting printed Facebook and Twitter “buttons” on everything from print advertising to packaging. We think QR codes offer a much better solution. This is Part 1 of the article: 6 Reasons Printed Buttons Must Die.
l’ve been a Deli.cio.us customer for many years, and their browser plugin has been an indispensable tool for writing my book, Designing Search: UX Strategies for eCommerce Success. The plugin is still as delicious as ever, but the login experience has become a cloying, putrid Durian mess that became enough to justify the pain of 2 hours of migrating to and learning another service. Don’t let your customers walk out on you. Avoid these 5 key issues in your login process.
How would an experience on a 7-inch tablet (like Amazon’s Kindle Fire) differ from one on a 9.7-inch tablet like the iPad? How does the size of the tablet device play into the application design, and how the user interacts with the device? Do smaller 7-inch tablets have the potential to be as popular as the larger iPad, from a user experience perspective?
Twitter , Facebook, email, IM… Will the new Google + Circles become “the One Circle to rule them all”, the social network everyone will want to join? While the jury is out, Google + is helping us frame the challenge to becoming The One Network: connection and communication.
In contrast to desktop Web search, auto-suggest on mobile devices is subject to two additional limitations: typing avoidance and slower bandwidth. The new patent-pending design pattern, Tap-Ahead, uses continuous refinement to create an intuitive, authentically mobile auto-suggest solution. This helps dramatically reduce the amount of typing needed to enter queries, and utilizes slower mobile bandwidth in the most efficient manner. Using this novel design pattern, your customers can quickly access thousands of popular search term combinations by typing just a few initial characters.
Specialized drop-down menu are one of the ways of creating immersive experience in mobile e-commerce search UIs. A novel design pattern, status bar drop-down menu, allows 100% of the screen real estate to be dedicated to search results, while also providing convenient and intuitive access to navigation and filter functions.
“One of top 3 books on search” “One-stop shop for great search” “Tons of ideas…super-useful” “Utterly fantastic! Buy it!.”
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