Mobile Usability Tips

Mobile device technology is developing day by day, so too does the Mobile UX field. Finding your way around a majority of the mobile websites that exist has become a nightmare with the lack of proper usability being implemented into their designs. Good mobile user experience is what separates successful apps from unsuccessful ones. Following is a few quick tips that will help you to design with great mobile user experience. Even if you're not involved in the actual design process, knowing these concepts will still help you come up with better concepts and give better feedback to those who do the work.

 1. There are two types of mobile users one who want to find out specific piece of information or want to do some specific task in very less time. And others are just gatherers who land up on your website through mobile browser and have less concerned about your website.
Listen and learn from your users. Get to know your users by conducting a few user tests and gathering useful information using various usability testing and analytics tools like google analytics.

2. Main purpose of your mobile app should be device towards helping user in identifying and then completing their task. Most of the users don't have time that is reason they want to accomplish most of their tasks through mobile devices. Try to understand user's intent and increase possibilities available at each stage of task to the user.

3. It is known fact that most of the mobile apps users use very little functionality. If you have your website online then analyze analytics data to look at how user interact with your website and identify functionality which is most used. You can use this information to reduce you mobile apps feature set.

4. Don't make user to read an instruction manuals as most of them are in hurry. If you want you can put little about your services but don't try to put FAQ in app. In the long run, the simpler the app, the better it will be.

5. Apple Inc., Google, Nokia all of them have put billions in ensuring user satisfaction. They have done lot research on ensuring that user should know what to expect when they press, swipe, and tap an icon on a screen. Developing custom interfaces which don't meet these standards may confuse your users and become significant obstacle in the way of engagement. Read up on the platform guidelines to always make sure you're using the correct UI element for the correct job.

The most difficult part in designing mobile devices like iPad, iPhone and other Mobile phone devices is you have to design it for small screen. Sl;ow hardware and unique hundreds of demanding features. If you have don't have knowledge about mobile UX this article will definitely help you.

source : Saurabh Sharma Sharma - http://www.techved.com/index.php/2011/08/mobile-ux/